MCS-51 Development Software

[Jon Wilder]

Not sure if anyone here has ever seen or used this as I've never seen it mentioned here, but there's a really neat open source IDE software for the MCS-51 family. It's layed out and works very similar to Microchip's MPLAB IDE, but it's made for MCS-51 uC's. Here's a link to it if anyone is interested in trying it out --

http://mcu8051ide.sourceforge.net/

I've used it to write my 8051 code and it works very well with no issues. It even has a simulator that will let you run, animate and single step through your code.

 

[4pyros]

Nice. Good to here from you again.

 

[Ian Rogers]

Thanks Jon.. Nice download...Cheers

 

[neptune]

Does it support C++ programming language ?

 

[Ian Rogers]

Jon..... Have you used this software yet?...... I have been using it with SDCC... I found the breakpoints manager a bit.....well bad.... The other parts are good though... It does simulate (albeit slow).

Have you experienced this? It may be just with SDCC.

 

[Jon Wilder]

Yes Ian...it is what I use for all of my MCS-51 development coding, although I code in assembly hence I use the built in assembler myself.

I've also used the simulator, although I haven't tried it with break points yet. Perhaps I'll do some testing with it today and see what I come up with.

 

[Ian Rogers]

I've just installed VSM Studio from Labcenter.... It allows me to compile C code directly from SDCC into a proteus design file.. With debugging!!

Anyone else who needs this...https://www.labcenter.com/download/prodemo_download.cfm#vsmstudio.

Its a pretty good IDE (for free).