Built on Eclipse™ and Fully Integrated, M2M Studio Makes Embedded
Application Development an Efficient and Enjoyable Experience
Regulatory News:
Wavecom SA (Paris:AVM) (NASDAQ:WVCM) and its subsidiary Anyware
Technologies today announced the launch of M2M Studio, a fully
integrated suite of tools for the development of embedded software
applications for industrial wireless devices based on Wavecom Wireless
CPU®s. M2M Studio enables developers to create, develop, compile,
download, debug and test their applications.
Replacing the existing Open AT® IDE, M2M Studio fully integrates
previously isolated tools such as the source code editor, project build
wizard, target download, RTE mode monitor, JTAG debugger, traces
emulator and development tool chain, all within the Eclipse Ganymede
framework. Eclipse and CDT (C/C++ Development Tools plug-in) are
becoming the industry standard for C and C++ development in the embedded
world.
The development environment features an easy-to-use graphical user
interface (GUI) as well as improved and integrated GUI-based
documentation. It comes with a new Enhanced Build System, a new Wireless
CPU® Connector, and a new Software Package Manager for
managing Open AT OS, Firmware and Plug-Ins bundles.
M2M Studio is delivered as a standalone package in the form of a simple
Windows installer, or via an online update site for experienced Eclipse
users. A new automatic software update module of M2M Studio will allow
developers to smoothly upgrade to new releases of the IDE, providing
them with easy access to continuous enhancements via Wavecom’s Internet
update service.
Prior to launch, M2M Studio was beta tested by some 70 developers who
all had previous experience with Wavecom’s Open AT® Software
Suite and the Open AT® IDE.
“M2M Studio is a great development tool,” said Truhann van der Poel,
founder of the South African development house Lattech Systems (Pty) Ltd
and a seasoned Open AT® developer. “It is easy to use, truly
integrated, and the documentation is greatly improved. Having created a
lot of applications with the previous Open AT® IDE, I am also
very pleased that the import of existing or legacy projects is easy and
trouble-free.”
“In a 2005 survey conducted by Embedded.com,
embedded systems developers voted software development tools the most
important criterion by far when evaluating a new embedded processor,”
said Philippe Guillemette, Chief Technology Officer of Wavecom.