Overview
NECTO Studio is a sophisticated Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed specifically for developing applications for microcontrollers. This comprehensive development tool provides a unified platform for coding, debugging, and managing embedded systems.
NECTO Studio seamlessly integrates with MIKROE's extensive ecosystem of software and tools, offering an efficient and cohesive development experience.
NECTO Studio in Action
Key Features
C Language: fundamental, versatile, foundational
- NECTO Studio supports C programming language. We kept efficiency, flexibility, and portability by adopting its standardizations: ANSI C (C89/C90), ISO C (C99), ISO C (C11) and ISO C (C17).
Cross-Platform Compatibility
- NECTO Studio ensures a seamless experience across various platforms, including Windows, macOS and Linux.
Supported Toolchains
- NECTO Studio boasts an extensive selection of 12 toolchains, offering developers flexibility and choice.
Wide MCU Compatibility
- The IDE supports various microcontroller units (MCUs) from leading manufacturers such as ARM Cortex-M, PIC, PIC32, dsPIC, AVR and RISC-V. This broad compatibility ensures that developers can work on a diverse array of projects using a single development environment.
Open source Framework
- NECTO Studio adopts an open-source SDK-based framework - mikroSDK, offering benefits such as ease of use, portability, modularity, abstraction and integration of third party projects. This helps accelerate development by providing readily available functions.
Code Examples
- NECTO Studio provides 1500+ categorized code examples, enhancing development efficiency and learning.
Build System
- NECTO Studio leverages CMake as its build system, offering advantages like integration with embedded tools, modularity, cross-compilation support, and consistency.
WiFi debugging
- NECTO Studio offers microcontroller debugging over WiFi. NECTO Studio is using CODEGRIP - world's first programmer/debugger device over WiFi to perform this task.
GUI Applications
- NECTO Studio integrates one of the most popular graphics library in the embedded industry - LVGL - with NECTO's GUI interface, enhancing the development of GUI applications.
Hardware configuration wizard
- NECTO Studio simplifies hardware/sofware configuration with its setup approach, providing a unified configuration for multiple projects, eliminating manual configuration for each project.
AI-Based Auto Completion
- NECTO Studio features an intelligent autocomplete plugin - TabNine, enhancing coding productivity and accuracy.
User-friendly Interface
- NECTO Studio's advanced syntax highlighting, IntelliSense and integrated project management enhances the coding experience, making it easier to write, organize, and maintain code.
Access to 1M+ projects
- Develop with NECTO Studio and EmbeddedWiki - a platform with over 1 million pre-built embedded projects, from which you’re sure to find ideas and solutions that fit your needs.
Real-Time Data Acquisition
- NECTO Studio offers real-time data acquisition via Plot built-in feature, allowing developers to visually analyze sensor data trends.
Remote Hardware Access
- NECTO Studio offers remote access to development boards for programming and debugging, providing flexibility and accessibility for embedded developers globally. This Remote Hardware Access is available through Planet Debug.
Integrated programming and debugging tools
- NECTO Studio offers various programming and debugging device options. It also supports debugging capabilities, including setting breakpoints, watching variables, and step-by-step execution. These tools enhance testing code directly on the hardware, improving reliability and performance.
Click boards™ Integration
- The IDE is compatible with MIKROE's Click boards™, which are modular add-on boards that extend the functionality of microcontroller systems. This integration enables rapid prototyping and experimentation with different hardware configurations.
Benefits
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Efficiency
NECTO Studio's integrated tools and libraries significantly reduce the time required for developing and debugging embedded systems.
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Flexibility
With its support for various MCUs and toolchains, the IDE provides the flexibility to tackle a wide range of projects.
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Rapid Prototyping
The integration with Click boards™ facilitates quick testing and iteration of hardware designs, accelerating the development process.