New Kinetis Design Studio V3.0.0 available

“This document has been extracted from Erich Styger blog https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-104880 with his agreement.”

Greetings,

The new Kinetis Design Studio V3.0.0 is available in the download section of the Freescale web:

Kinetis Design Studio is free of charge and unlimited.

What's New

New Eclipse Luna 4.4 IDE
Added Mac OS X (10.10, "Yosemite") host operating system support with Segger J-Link.
Added CMSIS-SVD Peripheral Register viewer.
New 'Welcome' view
New GNU ARM Embedded (launchpad) toolchain, reducing memory footprint especially for small devices.
New upgrade/migration assistant to migrate projects to V3.0.0.
Updated and extended Segger and P&E debugging support: attach to running target, semihosting and advanced flash programming features.
New Processor Expert V3.0 with multiple repository support and simplified Kinetis SDK usage and ability to generate projects for IAR and Keil.
Updated New Project Wizard (NPW) for simpler project creation.
Updated GNU ARM Eclipse plugins, multiple tool chain configurations.
Aligned and optimized for Kinetis SDK v1.2
New Device Support: see attached release notes (Rev 1).

For full/additional device support:

Download the Kinetis SDK v1.2 from Software Development Kit for Kinetis MCUs|Freescale
Install the Kinetis SDK
Add Kinetis SDK v1.2 to KDS: Use the menu Help > Install New Software and use C:\Freescale\KSDK_1.2.0\tools\eclipse_update\KSDK_1.2.0_Eclipse_Update (KSDK path on windows)

See https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-103698 for additional details, especially about porting KDS v2.0.0 projects to the GNU ARM Embedded (launchpad) tools.