As software becomes a critical feature in the variety of solutions embedded in today's products, embedded developers must have the right software tools to bring these products to market. This includes development tools that provide flexibility and a best-in-class platform with features and capabilities that span from the “introduction” phase to final hardware deployment.
Infineon Technologies announced the release of ModusToolbox 3.1 with enhanced features, giving developers more resources at their fingertips to develop software solutions for their hardware projects.
Infineon's ModusToolbox 3.1 adds a new dashboard application that serves as a central “getting started” resource with links to important documentation, training modules, video tutorials, and relevant community forums.
The dashboard provides a guided workflow for creating a new embedded project for various integrated development environments (IDEs), including Microsoft Visual Studio Code, IAR Embedded Workbench, Arm MDK (µVision IDE), or Eclipse IDE as part of ModusToolbox.
BSP Assistant, which has been significantly updated in the latest version, includes a new user interface for creating a board support package (BSP) using a device-centric flow. The latest version continues to support reference BSP from Infineon's development board library.
“Learning a new development tool can seem like a daunting task,” said Clark Jarvis, technical software and tools marketer at Infineon. “Infineon’s ModusToolbox now includes a robust dashboard that provides developers with key features to make getting started easier than before. Even more, there are significant improvements in the way the tools support development on end-customer hardware using BSP Assistant. This allows ModusToolbox to support the developer from start to finish.”
Infineon's ModusToolbox software is a comprehensive set of development tools and embedded runtime assets that provide a flexible and efficient development environment. It supports a seamless transition from the evaluation and prototyping phase using Infineon development kits, to creating a custom BSP through the edit-compile-debug cycle of application development, and finally to final product deployment.
