MIKROE Dev Tools to Support Renesas Board Farm
MIKROE announced a support deal with Renesas Electronics to provide development tools for 500 of Renesas’ most popular microcontrollers and upcoming new releases. A major aspect of the support will involve a "Planet Debug" remote board farm that enables developers anywhere in the world to remotely debug code without personal hardware.
Tool support for the Renesas MCUs will come from MIKROE’s NECTO Multi-Architectural IDE and Click board compact add-on boards. They will make it possible for developers to rapidly provide proof-of-concept, then prototype and code new embedded projects.
Click boards are fully compatible with the open-source mikroBUS socket. They can be used on any host system using the mikroBUS standard, supported by mikroSDK open-source libraries for evaluation and customization.
Neb Matic, CEO of MIKROE, stated, “We are very excited about this collaboration deal with Renesas. Developers need only to download the latest version of NECTO Studio. This will give them access to development tool support for many popular Renesas MCUs."
He added, "We are launching with 500 specified MCUs, and will add new devices as they are launched. If you read about a new device, you will immediately be able to start programming and debugging with it through NECTO without having to wait for hardware.”
Planet Debug Remote Board Farms
MIKROE has been deploying its Planet Debug remote board farms in Europe and the Americas, and will work with Renesas to further develop a hardware-as-a-service platform. Designers using Renesas devices can reserve time at no cost on the remote board farm, which is configured to the requirements of the application in question.
With the remote board, developers can work on and debug their own application code remotely through the NECTO Studio IDE without having to source the hardware.
Planet Debug remote board farms leverage MIKROE's CODEGRIP, the first device that allows programming and debugging over Wi-Fi through NECTO. Developers can remotely see real images of real boards in operation in real-time, not a simulation.
According to Mohammed Dogar, Vice President, Embedded Processing Marketing at Renesas, “This collaboration with MIKROE empowers our customers to begin development with our newest MCUs, immediately after they are announced. This gives them a significant head start and cost savings.
"By leveraging 24/7 access to boards on MIKROE’s Planet Debug remote board farms and choosing from thousands of functional code examples on the EmbeddedWiki embedded projects platform, Renesas customers gain direct access to code development resources that accelerate time-to-market.”
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