New IDE for non-newbies and most popular ARM targets

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stevech

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Please surprise..

http://visualgdb.com/tutorials/arm/kinetis/
Almost free compared to IAR/Keil/Atollic.

I installed it and did a build for an ARM target (not Freescale as above) in 20 minutes, including auto-include of the necessary PLL init and CMSIS/HAL libraries. Generates elf, bin, .hex.
Impressive install wizard and tutorials.

Has debugger if your target exposes JTAG or SWD connections (SWD is just clock, data, reset, power)

It uses Microsoft's new Free to everyone Visual Studio 2013 Community edition (free download). IMO it's best of breed IDE. But if you are a solid-citizen of OSX or Linux, this may not be for you.
With the plugin as above, it builds with GNU ARM toolchain. It even auto-downloads/installs that. No hours and hours navigating the corn maze of Eclipse and its cousins.

(This isn't Visual Micro for Visual Studio. Visual Micro is aimed at Arduino-ites for ARM and AVR whereas the above is more aligned with CMSIS/HAL libraries).
 
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