News:ARM收购Keil

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ARM buys development tool specialist KeilBy Colin HollandEmbedded.com(10/28/05, 11:57:00 H EDT)LONDON — ARM has bought a supplier of software development tools formicrocontrollers which operates jointly through two privately-owned companies,Keil Elektronik GmbH in Munich, Germany, and Keil Software, Inc. in Plano, Texas.The company has 23 staff and manufactures and distributes a range of developmenttools including ANSI C compilers, macro assemblers, debuggers, linkers, librarymanagers, firmware and real-time kernels.More than 100,000 microcontroller developers are said to be using the Keil toolsand the companyies have combined gross assets valued at $4.6 million.Warren East, ARM's CEO said his company, "identified the MCU market as acritical growth area for our future business and with this acquisition, we willbe able to accelerate progress in that market by offering a more complete, morecompelling solution. As the MCU applications shift from 8/16-bit to 32-bitsolutions, the combination of the ARM Cortex-M3 processor, which wasspecifically designed for microcontroller applications, our RealViewhigh-performance compiler, and Keil’s complementary MCU tools for ARM, willenable new generations of ARM MCU solutions."Reinhard Keil, CEO of Keil, said, "Keil and ARM have a long-standingrelationship through our membership of the ARM Connected Community. We feel thatwith this acquisition we are in a better position to deliver complete offeringsto the high-growth, 32-bit microcontroller market while continuing to supportour 8051 and C16x compilers within the uVision environment."

aquasnake

ARM公司宣布收购了Keil公司。Keil公司是一家业界领先的微控制器（MCU）软件开
发工具的独立供应商。Keil公司由两家私人公司联合运营，分别是德国慕尼黑的Keil
Elektronik GmbH和美国德克萨斯的Keil Software，Inc.；公司资产总额为460万美元。
ARM公司首席执行官Warren East先生表示：“ARM公司认为MCU市场是我们未来业务的重要
增长点，通过这次收购我们可以提供更完整、更具说服力的解决方案，从而加快在这个市
场上的发展进程。随着MCU应用从8/16位到32位的发展，专为微控制器应用设计的ARM Cort
ex-M3处理器、我们的RealView高性能编译器以及Keil针对ARM开发的MCU工具这三者的结合
将创造出ARM 新一代的MCU解决方案。”
拥有23名员工的Keil公司制造和销售种类广泛的开发工具，包括ANSI C编译器、宏汇编程
序、调试器、连接器、库管理器、固件和实时操作系统核心(real-time kernel)。目前有
超过10万名微控制器开发人员在使用这种得到业界认可的解决方案。

Keil公司首席执行官Reinhard Keil表示：“作为ARM Connected Community中的一员，Kei
l和ARM保持着长期的良好关系。通过这次收购，我们将能更好地向高速发展的32位微控制
器
市场提供完整的解决方案，同时继续在uVision环境下支持我们的8051和C16x编译器。”

google

这样可以不用ADS了？

aquasnake

<P>是的，ADS已经好几年没有update了</P><P>编译器效率还不是很高</P>

daneng

ARM又强大了，恐怖！[em12]