Boston, Massachusetts— P&E Microcomputer Systems announces the launch of a PRO development suite for ColdFire 5xxx devices. With the PRO suite, P&E looks to expand on the success of its PKGCFZ, a popular, cost-effective Windows-based development suite for the Motorola/Freescale MCF5xxx microcontrollers. The PRO version now represents a comprehensive solution for developing with either the C language or assembly language. The GCC component of the PKGCFZ_PRO simplifies development:

• Configure the compiler options within WinIDE
• Run GCC directly from WinIDE and Windows - no complex UNIX shell is required
• WinIDE builds your C application using a modifiable Windows batch file - no makefile is used.
• Auto-create GCC initialization code and linker scripts for the ColdFire 527x/528x
• Debug your C code using the ELF/DWARF(v. 2.0) file format
• WinIDE highlights syntax errors in your C source code

P&E Microcomputer Systems, Inc., established in 1980 and located in Boston, MA, is an industry trendsetter in hardware and software development tools for Motorola / Freescale microcontrollers.