Development Tools; Overview; Shine; Sama Assembler - Samsung S3C9454B User Manual

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DEVELOPMENT TOOLS

Samsung provides a powerful and easy-to-use development support system in turnkey form. The development

support system is configured with a host system, debugging tools, and support software. For the host system, any

standard computer that employs Win95/98/2000 as its operating system can be used. A sophisticated debugging

tool is provided both hardware and software: the powerful in-circuit emulator, SMDS2+ or SK-1000, for S3C7,

S3C9, S3C8 families of microcontrollers. The SMDS2+ is a new and improved version of SMDS2, and SK-1000 is

supported by a third party tool vendor. Samsung also offers support software that includes debugger, assembler,

and a program for setting options.

Samsung Host Interface for in-circuit Emulator, SHINE, is a multi-window based debugger for SMDS2+. SHINE

provides pull-down and pop-up menus, mouse support, function/hot keys, and context-sensitive hyper-linked help.

It has an advanced, multiple-windowed user interface that emphasizes ease of use. Each window can be sized,

moved, scrolled, highlighted, added, or removed completely.

The Samsung Arrangeable Microcontroller (SAM) Assembler, SAMA, is a universal assembler, and generates

object code in standard hexadecimal format. Assembled program code includes the object code that is used for

ROM data and required SMDS program control data. To assemble programs, SAMA requires a source file and an

auxiliary definition (DEF) file with device specific information.

The SASM86 is an relocatable assembler for Samsung's S3C9-series microcontrollers. The SASM86 takes a

source file containing assembly language statements and translates into a corresponding source code, object

code and comments. The SASM86 supports macros and conditional assembly. It runs on the MS-DOS operating

system. It produces the relocatable object code only, so the user should link object file. Object files can be linked

with other object files and loaded into memory.

HEX2ROM file generates ROM code from HEX file which has been produced by assembler. ROM code must be

needed to fabricate a microcontroller which has a mask ROM. When generating the ROM code (.OBJ file) by

HEX2ROM, the value "FF" is filled into the unused ROM area upto the maximum ROM size of the target device

automatically.

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