CodeSourcery Announces Upcoming Availability of GNU Toolchain for ColdFire® Processors

Granite Bay, CA -- February 21, 2006 -- CodeSourcery will provide GNU Toolchains for Freescale Semiconductor's ColdFire® processors. CodeSourcery's first release of ColdFire toolchains for GNU/Linux will be available March 1st, 2006. For additional information, visit http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/coldfire.

CodeSourcery will provide binary releases of the GNU Toolchain for V2 through V4e ColdFire processors, for a wide variety of embedded target systems, including the ordinary Linux kernel, the MMU-less uClinux kernel, other embedded operating systems, and configurations not requiring an operating system. CodeSourcery's releases will be conveniently packaged for both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux users.

CodeSourcery's toolchain for ColdFire processors will contain the complete GNU Toolchain: the GNU C and C++ compilers, C and C++ runtime libraries, and the GNU Debugger, with modifications to support Freescale reference designs. CodeSourcery will provide updates as future ColdFire processors are released.

"CodeSourcery is an excellent provider of high-quality GNU Toolchains for ColdFire architectures," said Greg Hemstreet, Product Marketing Manager for Freescale Semiconductor's Developer Technology Organization. "CodeSourcery quickly developed a robust toolchain for the ColdFire architecture, in all its variants and for multiple operating systems. We have been very impressed by CodeSourcery's outstanding technical staff and leadership position within the GNU development community. CodeSourcery's toolchains are a key part of our ColdFire enablement strategy."

"Providing GNU Toolchains for the ColdFire family is a very exciting step for CodeSourcery," said Mark Mitchell, Chief Sourcerer of CodeSourcery. "Freescale is a premier semiconductor vendor and the ColdFire architecture is extremely popular with embedded systems developers. We look forward to providing ColdFire architecture users with GNU Toolchains of the highest quality."

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