Evaluate, test, and program a 16-bit 196 microcontroller without writing code. (Intel Corp.'s ProjectBuilder, ApBuilder and ModelBuilder programming tools for its MCS196 microcontroller) (Processor Update) (Product Announcement)

EDN, May, 1993 by Weiss, Ray

Engineers often complain about how hard it is to initialize and program microcontrollers ([micro]Cs). But Intel engineers are out to make working with and setting up an embedded [micro]C easy. And they've succeeded. Intel now has a set of advanced tools that take much of the pain out of developing embedded systems using the 16-bit Intel MCS196 [micro]C. These Microsoft Windows-based tools include

* ModelBuilder, which has nine embedded-system benchmark applications. You can set up as many as five applications in a loop with programmed activation periods, and then watch the system loading. (The program results are simulated times.)

* ApBuilder, which documents the 196 [micro]C innards and lets you graphically initialize and program on-chip...

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