MIKROE announced that the latest version of the company’s multi-architecture, multi-language IDE, NECTO Studio now generates code for FreeRTOS™, the leading open source real-time operating system for embedded devices.
FreeRTOS is currently available in NECTO Studio 7.5.2 on 14 cores, including Arm Cortex-M, PIC32 and RISC-V. Together, these cover MCUs from 19 vendors including Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Renesas, NXP, Microchip, Texas Instruments and Analog Devices.
NECTO Assistant, an AI-powered assistant integrated within NECTO Studio designed to help embedded developers work faster and more efficiently, makes it easier to begin a FreeRTOS design.
NECTO Assistant generates a working project that reads the chosen Click sensors and displays the data in real time on a screen. During debugging, the FreeRTOS tab shows what the tasks and queues are doing and how much heap memory is in use.
Other new features within NECTO Studio 7.5.2 include:
o Renesas E2 / E2 Lite programmer and debugger support, covering RA, RX, and RL78 microcontrollers. Users can now select E2 or E2 Lite as their programmer and debugger in a project configuration, and use it in the same way they would with any other supported probe, including dual-core debugging on RA8 devices.
o The debugger gets a new Memory view for the active debug session, enabling developers to see what is stored at any address or behind any variable, and watch it change each time execution stops, without leaving the debugger.
o Remote board farm status now works directly with an active project, enabling users to quickly spot which remote boards are live, secure, and compatible with the project before pressing Connect.
o 376 new MCUs supported in the CODEGRIP programmer/debugger — the world’s first Wi-Fi debugger — ensuring broader MCU coverage and consistent integration across architectures.
NECTO Studio is a lightning-fast IDE developed in C++ for Windows, macOS, and Linux. It integrates 12 compilers, supports eight architectures, and covers thousands of MCUs, all unified under NECTO SDK’s universal codebase.
With daily-updated libraries, thousands of ready-to-use examples across hundreds of embedded topics, and a 24/7 remote board farm powered by CODEGRIP, developers dramatically reduce prototyping time.
Leadership Comment
Comments Neb Matic, CEO & Founder of MIKROE: “FreeRTOS is known for its small memory footprint, fast execution, and a rich set of kernel features and libraries. The whole flow is now covered in NECTO Studio: creating a project; generating code; and debugging it.”
