Why buy Microcross solutions?

Complete integrated set of development tools from a single vendor

• Professional Embedded Development tools with debuggers, simulators, debug agents, RTOSs, Embedded Linux, and development boards
• Fully integrated tools assure complete compatibility
• A support team that understands the complete toolsuite
• Added features and documentation that improve performance and interoperability of 3rd party tools

Professional development tools that produce high-performance code

• Wide choice of optimization options provides precision control over the performance and size of code
• Support for large code size and expanded symbol tables associated with high-performance RISC microprocessors
• Developed especially for the embedded market to provide all the features needed for firmware development
• Support both big-endian and little-endian targets
• Hardware and software floating point support

Performance and support that enables rapid project completion

• Fast downloads with debug connections allow more time to debug
• Common debugger interface reduces learning time
• Direct access to Microcross embedded engineers enables fast response to technical questions
• Continual development provides path to new features and performance improvements

Best value solution

• Industry price leader 
• Low cost tech support contracts, including a GNU X-Tools Training Guide
• Choice of debug solutions, ranging from low cost debug kernel and simulators to full featured ICE, provide a full range of debug features with minimum investment
• No run-time fees or royalties -- open source, royalty-free, ready-to-run™

Dedicated to supporting embedded RISC microprocessors and cores

• Eight years of focused experience supporting high-performance architectures
• Tools developed specifically for RISC architectures and not merely adaptations of CISC tools
• Strong alliances with partners: Cogent, Abatron, Digi, and Ultimate Solutions
• Alliances with most ARM and PowerPC IP licenses

Wide selection of debug interface controllers and development boards

• Enhanced JTAG interfaces to highly-embedded cores, microcontrollers, and cached microprocessors
• Support for
• ARM Embedded ICE macrocells and Embedded Trace Macrocells
• MIPS EJTAG and N-Wire debug interfaces
• picoTurbo JTAG debug Interface
• Development boards for designs based on ARM, PowerPC, and XScale

Microcross tools are simply the best free and open-source branded tools available. Developed specifically for high-performance 32-bit and 64-bit RISC architectures, GNU X-Tools™ has the features a developer needs to develop code that matches the performance of his processor of choice.

Visual X-Tools™, powered by SlickEdit® and GNU X-Tools™, provides more of the features needed for embedded RISC designs. The developer's investment in Microcross' products is protected by an unmatched level of technical support and by our commitment to continually improve our products.

To assure that our tools will meet the changing needs of the embedded developer, we regularly incorporate new features and improvements through upgrades based on requests from our customers. Because the engineers at Microcross are embedded developers themselves, they are well-equipped to recognize features that will improve your productivity and lower cost.  We aim high, and our goal is to be second to none!