Introduction
Welcome to ST Visual Develop (STVD). STVD is a powerful, integrated development environment for ST microcontrollers. This Windows-based environment provides interfaces for all phases of application development, from building and debugging your application, to programming your ST microcontroller.
New features described in this document are not present in earlier versions of STVD. This document will help you get started developing your application with STVD. It includes:
■ Detailed descriptions of STVD’s user interface and features
■ Information about STVD features that are specific to your debugging hardware
■ Tutorials to help you learn to use STVD’s build, debug and program features
Features
■ For building your application, STVD supports ST Assembler-Linker, Cosmic C, Raisonance C and Metrowerks C toolsets. Its graphics interface provides easy access to a range of options when building your application for debugging or programming your microcontroller.
■ For debugging your application, STVD supports a complete range of in-circuit debugging, emulation hardware, and advanced debugging features, including advanced breakpoints and trace recording that will make application development easy and fast. It can also be used as a stand-alone tool, providing a software simulation of your microcontroller’s behavior as it runs your application.
■ For programming, STVD provides a programming interface that is based on ST Visual Programming (STVP) software and supports a complete range of hardware for in-circuit, in-situ and socket programming.
