The ARM® RVDS Developer Suite provides software developers with leading edge tools for creating efficient software to run on any of the family of ARM core-based processors. The suite includes the following components:
- The ARM C/C++ compiler, co-developed with the ARM processors to ensure the best performing solution for ARM customers
- The ARM Profiler, an innovative new tool to find bottlenecks in embedded software
- The only vectorizing NEON SIMD compiler
- The reference ARM, Thumb(-2), VFP, and NEON assembler
- The Eclipse IDE
- The RV Debugger, which enables debugging of all ARM cores as a single or multi core system:
- OS awareness
- Multi-core (extra cost option)
- AXD debugger v1.3 (available on Windows only)
- Command-line based symbolic debugger (armsd)
- Instruction set simulatorTools for creating plain binary, Intel 32-bit and Motorola 32-bit ROM images
- C++ standard template libraries
- Linker to support placement of code and data in complex memory maps
- Comprehensive online documentation