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MIPS® Navigator™ ICS



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The MIPS® Navigator™ ICS (Integrated Component Suite) supports all MIPS32® processor cores and is fully integrated with the Mentor Graphics® Sourcery embedded C/C++ GNU-based toolchain for MIPS, providing a complete development environment and a rich set of software utilities that are easy to install and use.

The Eclipse environment has rapidly become the embedded industry standard for integrated development environments (IDEs) with software tools and plug-ins from many vendors integrating sophisticated editing, compiling, debugging and program management tools. MIPS Technologies has leveraged this power and extensibility as a control environment and user interface for developing and debugging MIPS-Based™ embedded systems.

The MIPS Navigator ICS fully supports the MIPS Navigator™ probes for low-level debugging and hardware bring-up. It organizes and presents the information to the user in a more logical way, for faster debugging of both hardware and software.

There are two versions of the Mentor Graphics® Sourcery embedded C/C++ toolchain integrated into MIPS Navigator ICS. One version can be used to develop and target bare-iron systems that have no operating system or have a traditional RTOS. The other version is for GNU/Linux targets. This allows a wide range of embedded systems to be developed using this environment.

MIPS Navigator ICS completely automates the installation process for the development environment, including the Eclipse-based IDE, the toolchains, probe software and the MIPSsim™ Instruction Set Simulators. Once installed, it provides sample projects to get the developer started rapidly on new MIPS-Based embedded development projects.

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Key Features

  • Includes industry standard Eclipse-based CDT and plug-ins
  • Includes the Mentor Graphics Sourcery embedded C/C++ GNU-based toolchain for MIPS for both bare-iron targets and GNU/Linux targets
  • Provides a complete control center for debugging with MIPS Navigator probes
  • All on-chip and off-chip probe trace features are integrated with the IDE
  • Supports multi-core debug with multiple MIPS cores on the EJTAG chain
  • Includes MIPSsim and IASim CPU Instruction Set Simulators
  • Supports all MIPS32 cores, including the 1004K™ and 1074K™ cores
  • Hot Spot Analysis (HSA) plug-in provides graphical views of code execution results using the zero-overhead PC sampling capability of certain MIPS cores and the MIPS Navigator probes
  • Node locked PC or floating licenses available
  • Runs on Windows or PC Linux
  • Software integrated into a single, easy to use installation
  • New expression based pattern editor for triggers
  • Symbolizer view to search for symbols and navigate to source
  • Instruction and Data Cache Viewer
  • Off-line trace viewing from saved trace files