Chip Specific Products

Tools Directory

For each Microprocessor chip family (over 100 are listed) our Tools Directory shows all software and hardware designed for that family and where necessary (Simulators, ICE, programmers) it shows which individual chips within the family are supported.

Assemblers, Compilers and Simulators

The core of any microprocessor development facility. We have cross development software available for most micros.

Evaluation Boards and Complete Development Packages

For prototype development and compiler evaluation COMSOL can supply boards ( Many of which come with full or limited code size development systems)  for the 68HC08, 68HCS08,  68HC12, 68HC16, ColdFire, MSP430 and ARM  as well as a number of special purpose boards for use with CAN.

In-Circuit Emulators - ICE

Chip specific ICE are available for 8,16 and 32 bit processors along with BDM and JTAG driven ICE.

C Real Time Operating Systems

All but the smallest single chip applications benefit from the use of a real time executive. It simplifies the design stage, forces clear interfaces between parts and allows separate sections to be coded, tested and modified independently. We have a range of real-time executives to suite every need.

Embedded Program Libraries

Now that C is established as the universal high level language for embedded work the promise of reusable functions is beginning to be realised.  Most communication with the outside world demands complex high level protocols such as DOS file structures on a floppy, TCP/IP, FTP etc.

EBS provide C source code that simplifies this process and includes DOS files, PCMCIA, CDROM, Floppies, IDE, TCP/IP, FTP, NFS, PPP, Ethernet, SNMP, Mail, HTML web servers.

CMX-MicroNet provides TCP/IP, PPP and a web server all in under 20K bytes for 8/16 bit micros.

Micro Digital have a range of Embedded USB Host and Device Stacks including support for Thumb drive operation

The user interface has increasingly become standardised on Windows compatible GUIs and for this PEG provides a low overhead portable Windows package.  Webster is an embedded able  web browser based on PEG and the EBS stack

ROM Monitors / Debuggers

Using only software and a few clever hardware tricks, these can provide a low cost software development environment.

Intel x86

this warrants a section to itself as the dominance of PCs has resulted in a powerful set of tools but few of them are directly usable to create embedded applications. COMSOL can supply powerful linkers, simulators and debuggers designed for the embedded engineer.