Arm DS-5 | DS-5 Community Edition

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Development Studio 5 Community Edition

The Arm Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Community Edition is a free professional quality tool chain developed by Arm to accelerate your first steps in Arm software development. Based on DS-5 Ultimate Edition, this toolkit offers essential debug and system analysis for you to create robust and highly optimized software for Arm processor-based devices.

Arm DS-5 Community Edition includes:

DS-5 Debugger for Linux native language applications.
DS-5 Debugger for bare-metal development with Armv8-A Foundation Model.
Arm Streamline performance analyzer for Linux/Android™ applications - Basic features.
Online help and Software examples
Linux and Windows host support (64 bit hosts only)

Some third-party compilers are compatible with DS-5. For example, the GNU Compiler tools enable you to compile bare-metal, Linux kernel, and Linux applications for Arm targets.

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