Release Plan#

The following table lists the various milestones planned for the current release of the IDE:

Features#

System Information scalability improvements#

Now, the tool uses the XStream object serialization library to persist target information data to an XML file. This greatly improves the scalability of the tool in the following areas:

• Because of the way that the XStream library handles in-memory object reference, most objects can be serialized without the need for holding on to the object mapping; therefore the tool does not use as much memory as it did before
• The tool can perform logging for a much longer period of time. Some initial measurements show that the target snapshot logging can continue for as long as six hours, while previous results showed that a typical system would run out of memory when logging for more than one hour
• The results are in clean XML format, which is easier for users to read

Eclipse 3.3 and CDT 4.0 integration#

• Eclipse 3.3 Platform New and Noteworthy
• CDT 4.0 New and Noteworthy
• Managed build definitions for qcc
• Target tab for build properties on Makefile projects to select qcc target architecture
• Scanner discovery for built-ins for qcc
• Scanner discovery build output parser
• IDE 4 to IDE Tau project conversion for managed build projects
• New project template for resource managers
• Preindex nto header files
• QNX Project to CDT managed build project conversion

Application profiler enhancements #

You can obtain a detailed description of these feature in this pdf document.

• Function enter/exit time instrumentation
• Call Tree/Reverse Call Tree modes
• Context navigation menu
• New Profiler sessions view with sessions persistence
• Profiler sessions comparison
• Session snapshot tool
• Pause/Resume Profiling
• View cloning
• History navigation
• Data Grouping
• Session Import
• Properties view integration
• View customization
• Copy to clipboard
• View Filtering
• Search in Tree View
• Annotated editor improvements

System profiler enhancements#

• Launch with profiling capabilities
• Integration with GCC compiler instrumented function profiling
  • "Show in" application profiler capabilities
  • Application stack based timeline view

System builder enhancements#

• A new System Builder editor
• Various image editing presentation options that include:
  • a regular build script
  • a component-oriented model
  • grouping by element type (devices, services, and applications)
  • an image file system
• All presentations are synchronized; users can select a preferred method (or methods) of editing an image definition
• A simplified method to enable/disable specific components, devices, services, and applications
• New wizards for adding new devices, services, and applications to an image
• Intensive support for the editing process (such as syntax coloring, undo/redo, content assist, and hover and context-sensitive help)
• A new Combining Task editor to combine tasks, and define parameters for these tasks
• A new serial terminal