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The reference software development tool suite for ARM Powered® platforms.
ARM DS-5™ is the toolchain of choice of software developers who want to make the most of ARM application processors and SoCs. Comprising features such as the best-in-class ARM Compiler, powerful OS-aware debugger, system-wide performance analyzer, and real-time system simulator, DS-5 is an integrated development environment that assists engineers in delivering optimized and robust software for ARM processors.
For detailed information on current and previous releases, visit the DS-5 change log.
ARM Energy Probe User Guide
ARM DS-5™ Main Features
Integrated Development Environment & ARM Compilation Tools
- Customized Eclipse IDE, compatible with third party plug-ins
- ARM Compiler, optimized compilation tool co-developed with ARM cores
- Powerful C/C++ editor and project manager
- Integrated productivity utilities such as the Remote System Explorer, SSH and Telnet terminals, and more.
DS-5 Debugger
- Debug support for bare-metal, RTOS and Linux and Android platforms
- Non-intrusive cycle-accurate ETM and PTM instruction trace
- Seamless support for SMP systems
- Automated debug sessions for faster debug cycles
- ITM and STM instrumentation trace
- Support for pre-configured and custom platforms
Streamline Performance Analyzer
- System performance analysis for Linux and Android systems
- CPU usage statistics per process, thread, function and source code
- Event-based sampling allowing to assign PMU counters, such as cache misses, to source code
- ARM Mali™ GPU graphics performance analysis
- Probe to acquire and correlate actual power data with system performance
- Data collection over network - No debug adapter required
Real-Time Simulator
- Cortex™-A8 and dual-core Cortex-A9 model simulator
- Typical simulation speed over 250 MHz
- Stop-mode or run-mode debug connection to simulator
- ARM Embedded Linux distribution provided for Linux application debug on Cortex-A8
ARM Quality on Product and Services
- All the information you need to start developing quality software from day one
- See Resources tab to see product documentation, videos, blog posts, etc
- Specialist support to advise you on how to get the most out of your tools
- Wide choice of technical training courses
DS-5 Editions
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DS-5 Professional Edition: Leading-edge software development toolkit for bare-metal, RTOS, and Linux/Android projects. In addition to full debug support and system analysis for all ARM processors, it includes the highly-optimizing ARM Compiler and a dual-core Cortex-A9 RTSM for the creation of high quality software in the shortest possible timeframe.
DS-5 Basic Edition: Fully featured toolkit for debug and system analysis for all ARM processors. Ideal for projects that use only third party compilers, such as GCC, and would not benefit from a virtual SMP platform to develop parallelized software.
DS-5 Community Edition: Lightweight free edition for small Android application developers. Find out more
See also DS-5 Support & Maintenance and supported platforms.
Debug Adapters
The ARM recommends the DSTREAM™ High Performance Debug and Trace Unit for fast and reliable JTAG debug connection and non-intrusive instruction and instrumentation trace. For users convenience, the legacy RealView ICE (RVI™) unit is also compatible with DS-5 for run-control debug.
DSTREAM
- Code download at up to 2.5 MB/s
- 4 GB built-in trace buffer
- Ethernet and USB 2.0 connections to host
- Single firmware for all ARM processors
Power and Energy Analysis
The ARM Energy Probe is a simple, standalone hardware unit that connects to the ARM Streamline Performance Analyzer to display voltage, current and power measurements alongside other system performance metrics and software profile.
Energy Probe
- No additional debug hardware required
- 3 independent channels
- USB 2.0 connections to host
Simulation Models and Development Boards
ARM offers both virtual and physical development platforms that allow programmers to start coding, testing and debugging software for ARM platforms before the target hardware is available.
Fast Models
- Virtual ARM platform on Windows or Linux hosts
- Execution speeds comparable to the actual hardware
- Compatible with NEON™, TrustZone™ and VFP
Development Boards
- Development and prototyping boards for early software development
- Modular architecture
- Support for all ARM cores
Application Processors
ARMv5
ARMv6
ARMv7
Documentation
- Knowledge articles: Objective troubleshoot-style articles
- Quick Start Guide: Learn how to start debugging and profiling the example applications in DS-5
- DS-5 support and maintenance entitlement
ARM Connected Community
- Technical forum
- Software enablement blog: News, quick tips and step-by-step tutorials
Videos
 | Debugging the Linux kernel on a Beagleboard using DSTREAM |
 | How to import and debug example Linux applications using the Cortex-A8 simulation model in DS-5 |
 | Get started with ARM Streamline Performance Analyzer in 2 minutes |
 | Using the Remote System Explorer to access the file system on the target |
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