Cosmic 68HC16 Cross Development Tools

Cosmic's toolchain for the 68HC16 family is part of a complete and uniform product line incorporating over 20 years of innovative design and development. Cosmic's familiar and easy to use software interface is available for all NXP microcontrollers to simplify the migration between targets. All Cosmic products include one year of technical support and updates.

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• 68HC16 Family
  The Cosmic 68HC16 compiler generates highly efficient code for the entire 68HC16 family of microcontrollers.
• ANSI and ISO C Compiler
  The Cosmic 68HC16 compiler follows ANSI and ISO rules and conventions. All code and libraries are optimized specifically for the 68HC16 processor cores.
• Reentrant and Recursive
  All code is fully reentrant and recursive using standard ANSI stack frame conventions.
• Moveable Code Feature
  Moveable code feature is designed to make RAM based code like bootloaders easy to create and maintain. The Linker automatically creates a segment in ROM to store moveable code. Then at run time, use the supplied library function to locate and copy the moveable code into RAM at any time for execution.
• Address 1 MByte
  Choose from 4 memory models for efficient use of up to 1 Mbyte of code and data with the 68HC16.
• Byte EEPROM Support
  Compiler provides transparent support for on-chip EEPROM (library source included). Allocate any C data object(s) to the EEPROM and the compiler takes care of the formatting and programming.
• In-line Assembly
  The compiler provides three convenient methods for adding assembly code inside a C program. Includes an argument passing mechanism.
• IEEE-754 Floating Point
  Supports IEEE 32 bit single and 64 bit double precision floating point formats with full ANSI libraries (Source code included).
• Absolute Listings
  Optionally produce relocatable and/or absolute C interspersed with the corresponding Assembly listings.
• Automated Check Sums
  Easy to use check sum facility and library (Source included) allow users to quickly implement an efficient check sum on any or all sections. Check sum calculation and insertion is transparently managed by the linker.
• Mixed C and Assembly
  Cosmic tools support mixed C and Assembly applications. Including Assembler support for C #defines and #includes. so C and assembly language modules may share common constants and macros.
• Host Independent Formats
  The Cosmic relocatable and absolute object formats are host independent. This allows user's on PC, SUN and HP to share objects for linking and debugging.
• IEEE-695 and ELF/DWARF Debug Support
  The Cosmic compiler suite supports the IEEE and ELF DWARF standard debug formats used by many popular emulators and logic analyzers.
• In-Circuit Emulator Compatibility
  Cosmic's 68HC16 compiler is compatible with emulators and BDM debuggers from I-Systems, Lauterbach and P&E.
• Flexible Compiler Interface
  Cosmic compilers are designed to be powerful and flexible so they can be used with virtually any environment. Use Cosmic's own IDEA interface or use your favorite editor, make utility and/or source code control system - It's Your Choice!!
• OS Compatibility
  Cosmic HC16 compiler is compatible with most HC16 operating systems and real-time kernels including specific ports from CMX and MicroC/OS-II.

ZAP Debugger

Cosmic's ZAP debugger is a full featured C and Assembly language source-level debugger for embedded applications. ZAP's intuitive graphical interface is uniform for all targets and execution environments.

ZAP SIM Debugger is avaialbe with an integrated instruction set Simulator for the HC16.

Click here for general information about the ZAP debugger.