ARM RealView Toolchain

I have access to 30-day Trial Editions of the ARM RealView toolchain
which has a great instruction set simulator.

It's free to BeagleBoard hobbyists, but you'll need to pay for
shipping. Note that I have to pass on your name and contact
information to ARM as part of my agreement with them which allows me
to do this.

Bill Mar
Special Computing
training@specialcomp.com

Does the ISS support ARMv7-A?

Laurent

The ARM ISS must support ARMv7-A as part of the NEON instuction set
support. You're welcome to get a copy to try out for yourself to see
how good that support really is.

I'm putting together a virtual/hybrid simulation environment of the
BeagleBoard to help with various code optimization experiments.
Perhaps you can help in this effort.

Bill Mar

Because Beagle uses Linux, there are a few interworking issues, so you
need to read the Apps Note 178
http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.dai0178b/AppNote178.pdf

I suggest starting with gcc first then moving performance critical
parts to RVDS to get the best code quality.

PS. you can also get it from ARM: see http://www.arm.com/products/DevTools/RealViewDevSuite.html