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Questions tagged [ide]

stands for Integrated Development Environment and is a tool(set) assisting to write software.

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Complete alternatives to the Arduino IDE?

I'm not that big of a fan of the official Arduino IDE (in terms of visuals), so I've started looking for nicer alternatives. However, most of the projects I've found are in alpha/beta and are generally incomplete. I'm 100% new to circuit board…
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Free IDE for VHDL and Verilog

I am interested in learning VHDL and Verilog. I was wondering if there is any free IDE for those?
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Can I develop with the Arduino using an IDE with more features?

The simplicity of the open source Arduino IDE is great, but a bit limiting sometimes - I like to use Netbeans for instance for other work that I do. Do any plugins exist for more fully featured IDEs that would allow me to develop for the Arduino…
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Using IntelliJ to for Arduino IDE

I'm on Mac OS X and have a license for IntelliJ Ultimate. Is it at all possible to use IntelliJ as an IDE for Arduino projects?
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VHDL IDE for a GNU/linux environment

I have to study VHDL from 0 and i'd like to have an option that runs under a linux kernel instead of NT/Windows: any tips? I can also really appreciate some good links to good VHDL resources for a beginner, thanks.
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What free IDE does everyone use for the stm32?

I'm currently using Atmel SAM series. The choice was easy: IDE is Atmel Studio which is very good, free and I used it for developing AVR before. The debugger I have is the Atmel ICE which I also used for AVRs and it supports the ARM series as…
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MSP430 Code Size in CCS

This should be pretty straight forward, but my google-ing is not turning anything up... I can build my project successfully in TI Code Composer Studio (CCSv5) and target my device. Now I want to know my program code size, so that I know how much…
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Is there a Scratch-like Arduino IDE?

I believe that the answer is no, but I wanted to check before I put effort into rectifying it (and no, no promises!) Is there anything like Scratch that one can use to program an Arduino? (Scratch is a graphical coding environment that makes…
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Best IDE for 32-bit microcontroller on Linux

I'm choosing a 32-bit microcontroller to implement a Kalman filter. I am very attracted to the Atmel Studio 6 IDE. However, it only appears to run on Windows. Could anyone suggest a good Linux IDE? Otherwise, I think I'll go with Atmel Studio 6 IDE…
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Texas Instruments Compiler

I am working with TI's CC2533 SoC Low Power RF I bought a few chips and assembled a few PCBs.. Using TI's debugger I confirmed that I can send and receive packets using the basic RF using the RFStudio. Something I have not realised is that TI does…
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Arduino as ISP for ATtiny

I am attempting to use an Arduino Duemilanove as a tool to program an ATtiny85 from the Arduino IDE. I was using the instructions at ForkRobotics which are ... Upload ArduinoISP sketch to Arduino Connect Arduino pins 7, 8 & 9 to LEDS (heartbeat,…
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Recommended first steps with the BeagleBoard

How can I easily start off professional development with the BeagleBoard XM? Which OS should I work with? .. my choices include: Ubuntu Android MeeGo WinCE QNX Angstrom (preinstalled) Symbian Gentoo How do I install an OS onto the board? Which…
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ARM Cortex (M3-M4): manufacturer and development IDE

I would like to do some MCU programming this summer and I've already had some unfortunate experiences with the STM32F4 DISCOVERY board, particularly the fact that it came without any (free) software which would allow unlimited use (more than the…
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Where can I find XT-IDE (8bit IDE, XTA) specifications?

I have an old hard drive and would like to try to read the data from it. The hard drive is IDE, but it is the old version of IDE, called XTA and it is only 8 bits wide (compared to "normal", 16bit IDE). It is also incompatible with the modern…
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What other microcontrollers use "real" IDEs?

TI moved Code Composer Studio to an Eclipse-based platform a few years ago, and Microchip recently moved MPLAB to NetBeans. Which other microcontrollers have "real" IDEs like Eclipse/NetBeans/IntelliJ IDEA for editing/debugging in C++? ("real" in my…
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