??? 02/15/11 12:33 Read: times |
#181104 - ARM Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Andy Neil said:
8051 vendors can't do that, as there would be no way to stop anyone taking, say, NXP's free 8051 compiler and using it with anyone & everyone else's 8051s. Valentin Angelovski said:
Same could surely be said for ARM vendors with the same ideas? Vendor-independent build tools (based on GCC & Eclipse) are available for free anyhow so it costs the chip makers nothing to "give" (sic) those away anyhow. The important bit that Chipmakers give away is their specific debug support - which they can (and do) lock to their own proprietary hardware. Another key difference between ARM and 8051 is that there is ARM themselves behind the whole "ecosystem" - there is no corresponding overall "owner" of the 8051 architecture any more (Intel aren't interested). In either case, I digress. we do... |