Trends in embedded development tools

摘要

Demand for embedded systems continues to increase and the market is forecast to reach $158.6 billion by 2015. A significant number of these systems use an ARM processor, with more than 2,000 ARM Cortex-M processor-based MCU devices available from nearly 20 different chip vendors. As embedded systems continue to get more complex, the necessity for development tools to ease design pain points and enable developers to bring new products to market also increases.