Eclipse IDE

Warning

Note that Ashling Opella-XD is EOL (End of Life) and Eclipse IDE may not support the latest versions of the probe. Refer the old documentation site for guides related to Ashling Opella-XD.

The ARC GNU Eclipse IDE consists of the Eclipse IDE combined with an Eclipse CDT Managed Build Extension plug-in for the ARC GNU Toolchain and GDB embedded debugger plug-in for ARC, based on the Zylin Embedded CDT plug-in. The ARC GNU IDE supports the development of managed C/C++ applications for ARC processors using the ARC GNU toolchain for bare metal applications (elf32).

The ARC GNU IDE provides support for the following functionality:

• Support for the ARC EM, ARC HS, ARC 600 and ARC 700 Processors
• Support for little and big endian configurations
• Ability to create C/C++ projects using the ARC elf32 cross-compilation toolchain
• Configuration of toolchain parameters per project

• Configuration of individual options (such as preprocessor, optimization, warnings, libraries, and debugging levels) for each toolchain component:

  • GCC Compiler
  • GDB Debugger
  • GAS assembler
  • Size binutils utility, etc.

• Support for Synopsys EM Starter Kit and AXS10x.

• Configuration of debug and run configurations for supported FPGA Development Systems and debug probes (Digilent HS1/HS2 or Ashling Opella-XD).
• GDB-based debugging using Debug perspective providing detailed debug information (including breakpoints, variables, registers, and disassembly)

ARC GNU plugins for Eclipse have following requirements to the system:

• OS: Windows 10, Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS and CentOS 7 development host systems
• Eclipse 2018-12 (part of Windows installer)
• CDT version 9.6.0 (part of Windows installer)
• Java VM version >= 1.8 is required (part of Windows installer)