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ARM Keil MDK is free (sort-of)

shabaz

For ages, the Keil development environment/compiler which they call MDK (Microcontroller Development Kit) has been a chargeable product, extremely unaffordable for home use : (

It's really annoying when microcontroller manufacturers only supply sample code using Keil. It's not always easy to port the project files to Eclipse, often it's hard and a lot of work!

For curiosity I re-logged onto the Keil website today, and noticed there is now a Community Edition! The announcement was in March it seems.

There doesn't seem to be a code limit, which is great. 

I just now tried to build some sample code from Dialog Semiconductor (they have cheap BLE chips but 95% of the more useful example projects are with Keil, not Eclipse, hence the interest) and it worked and I was able to download to the target eval board, which has an integrated J-Link, so that works too. I'm still learning how to use Keil, it's new to me.

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Keil has a pack system which is quite neat.. I've only installed the Dialog specific pack so far:

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Anyway, I just thought I'd mentioned that the community edition was available, in case anyone else is interested in trying it too.

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  • It's good that you paid attention to this and shared with everyone. I also had to struggle with Eclipse and various other environments. Thank you.

  • in reply to maxpowerr

    my directory's are as follows

    NexGen

        ADI-ARU-50.A     //one of 26 modules

        RSS

            src

                 Java

                        Main

                        Test

             Radios

                  C-3436A-ARN-30     // one of eight modules

                        Docs

                        src

                            Arduino

                                 C-3436

                                         C-3436.ino

                                         C-3436.h

                            Java

                         

    Please don't get me wrong this is a very large project     As well as a Top-level NexGen dir there is also a E-14 with a similar layout this Layout is handy in Eclipse IDE as it uses Mylyn layout but uses Gradle for my builds much nicer than make. 

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  • in reply to maxpowerr

    my directory's are as follows

    NexGen

        ADI-ARU-50.A     //one of 26 modules

        RSS

            src

                 Java

                        Main

                        Test

             Radios

                  C-3436A-ARN-30     // one of eight modules

                        Docs

                        src

                            Arduino

                                 C-3436

                                         C-3436.ino

                                         C-3436.h

                            Java

                         

    Please don't get me wrong this is a very large project     As well as a Top-level NexGen dir there is also a E-14 with a similar layout this Layout is handy in Eclipse IDE as it uses Mylyn layout but uses Gradle for my builds much nicer than make. 

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