ST RVDK User Manual

ARM RealView® Developer Kit (RVDK) for ST

development environment for STR7 and STR9 microcontrollers

Features

The RVDK for ST includes:

■ RealView ICE-ME (RVICE-ME), ARM’s in-

circuit debugger and programmer, featuring
USB host interface and industry standard
JTAG interface to the application board.

■ RealView Debugger, ARM’s powerful,

debugging interface that provides a complete
range of run control and breakpoint features.

■ RealView C Compilation Tools (RVCT), ARM’s

C compiler, macro assembler and linker
offering a range of code size or speed of
execution optimizations. An optional C++
extension is available.

RVDK

Data Brief

Description

The ARM RealView® Developer Kit for ST is a
complete development and debugging
environment for designing applications for the
STR7 and STR9 families of ARM® core-based
microcontrollers. While the RealView Developer
Kit is tailored to work with ST products, it provides
the same compiler optimizations and debugging
features as the ARM RealView® Developer Suite
(RDS). RVDK for ST does not include tools with
trace capability to take advantage of the STR9's

Embedded Trace Macrocell™. For information
about tool kits that support the STR9 trace
capability, please refer to the data brief for either
the IAR Advanced Developer's Kit for STR91xF
(STR91X-DK/IAR), or the Raisonance
Professional Developer Kit for STR9
(STR9DK/RAIS).
RVDK ordering options are summarized in the
table below. Additional ordering codes for
compiler and license extensions and upgrades of
previous versions to support STR9 are provided
in the product selector at www.st.com/mcu.

Table 1. Device summary

Order codes

STR79-RVDK Yes Yes Yes No Yes
STRx-RVDK/BAS
STR-RVICE/ME Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes

1. Additional C++ option is available (STR79-RVDK/CPP).

2. RealView ICE Micro Edition hardware emulator can be purchased separately (STR-RVICE/ME).

3. The initial key license for STR7-RVDK/BAS and STR9-RVDK/BAS are limited to one year only.

4. C Compiler delivered with the Basic editions (STR9-RVDK/BAS and STR7-RVDK/BAS) has a maximum optimization at
level -O1 (highest is -O2, the lowest is -O0).

5. STR7-RVDK/BAS Basic edition has a download/single stepping speed restricted to 25% of maximum speed of STR79­RVDK maximum JTAG download speed.

C compiler (with

full optimization)

(3)

No

(4)

(1)

Debugger

Yes No

Optimum JTAG

download

(5)

45-day limited

license

No Yes

RVICE-ME

(2)

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For further information contact your local STMicroelectronics sales office .

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Ordering the RVDK RVDK

Ordering the RVDK

● STR79-RVDK – RVDK Full Edition for STR7 and STR9. Includes RealView ICE-ME,

debugging software and C compilation tools (without C++ extension).

Note: The ordering code STR79-RVDK replaces the STR7-RVDK code that was previously used

to order the RVDK Full Edition for STR7.

● STR9-RVDK/BAS – RVDK Basic Edition for STR9 with 1-year license. Includes

RealView ICE-ME, debugging software and C compilation tools (without C++
extension).

● STR7-RVDK/BAS – RVDK Basic Edition for STR7 with 1-year license. Includes

RealView ICE-ME, debugging software and C compilation tools (without C++
extension).

● STR79-RVDK/CPP – Optional C++ extension for the RealView compilation tools.

● STR79-RVDK/UPG – Upgr ade for RVDK Basic Edition (1-year license) to the RVDK

Full Edition (STR79-RVDK).

● STR-RVICE/ME – Real View ICE-ME in-circuit debugger programmer. Includes 45-day

trial version of the RealView debugging software and C compilation tools.

Upgrade ordering codes for RVDK for STR7 users:

● STR79-RVDK/9 – Upgrade RVDK for STR7 to RVDK for STR7/9.

● STR79-RVDKCPP/9 – Upgrade RVDK for STR7 with C++ extension to RVDK for

STR7/9 with C++ extension.

RVDK for ST will continue to be available from and supported by STMicroelectronics for
ST's ARM7TDMI (STR7) and ARM966E (STR9) core-based MCUs. However this tool
package will not support ST microcontrollers that use future ARM cores. For support of
current and future ARM core-based MCUs, ARM has introduced a new tool package
RealView Microcontroller De velo pment Kit f or ARM based on the ARM compilation to ols and
the Keil uVision3 IDE.

For more information

The microcontroller support site on www.st.com provides a number of free tool and
microcontroller support features including software d ownloads, on-line product selector,
user groups and complete documentation.

Revision history

Table 2. Document revision history

Date Revision Changes

06-Sep-2006 1 Initial release.

09-Feb-2009 2

Revision number on cover page corrected. Cover page content
restructured. No technical changes.

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