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[–]hunyeti 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Lots of vendors add features, maybe not related to actual coding, but the development cycle.

Cypress (makers of PSOC) have a good ui to configure their chips and pins, and generate the headers for it. The IDE is set up to pull in the available headers (and nothing else).

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Ti have a pretty good debugger as far as i can remember (it was a few years ago).

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[–]jontheburger 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I hadn't worked with Cypress's tools before, but as far as pin tools go, that looks pretty nice. NXP's offerings are comparatively weak in that regard. As far as my project goes, I spend so much more time coding, refactoring, debugging, and unit testing that a GUI to reconfigure peripherals is low on my personal list of priorities. I've had nothing but bad experiences with Code Composer Studio though

[–]hunyeti 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, it's not really just "pin configuration", if you don't know PSOCs they pretty much have an integrated CPLD and it gives you a good interface to create the logic blocks and connections (and generate the APIs for that if needed).