Freescale Kinetis Design Studio (KDS)

[mark]

Hi All

Freescale has now made their new KDS available.

This is an environment for Kinetis development which is free and unlimited so will certainly become the main-stream IDE  in the future, replacing Freescale's CodeWarrior which has been the preferred IDE up to now.

After spending the weekend working with it, I conclude that it has no major problems so I have already made a Kinetis release with KDS support that defaults to it and the new FRDM-K64F board (V1.4.5): http://www.utasker.com/forum/index.php?topic=1721.0

I posted my experience at the new KDS forum: https://community.freescale.com/thread/323324
where there is a lot of additional information for getting started with this tool. My advice is to begin using it asap ;-)

Regards

Mark

[phomann]

Hi Mark,

It looks good, I'm going to check this out. I'm just waiting on approval by Freescale to be able to download it.

Have to tested it with the K60 and K20 variants in uTasker 1.4.5?

Cheers,

Peter

[mark]

Peter

I haven't tested with many boards yet but it builds all with its GCC compiler (different version but not that relevant).
These outputs work but the biggest question is how good the debuging is with it, which will be determined while using it for some time.

Regards

Mark