Mcuxpresso IDE: Import kinetis Design Studio Project

Many of my current active projects are using NXP's Kinetis Design Studio (KDS) V3.2.0 (I've published a lot of projects on GitHub). Now with the advent of the Mcuxpresso IDE (see "Mcuxpresso IDE: Unified Eclipse IDE for NXP ARM cortex-m microcontrollers"), I've migrated several KDS projects to Mcuxpresso. This article is about how to easily migrate KDS projects and run them in the Mcuxpresso IDE.

Overview

The Mcuxpresso IDE uses a newer Eclipse IDE (Neon) than KDS (Luna) and has a different build system: The Mcuxpresso IDE uses the same build system and integration environment as Lpcxpresso, and KDS uses the GNU ARM Eclipse plug-in. Both of these methods have their own pros and cons. In addition, the Mcuxpresso IDE does not include processor Expert, while KDS includes. To use the Mcuxpresso IDE to migrate and use the KDS project, there are several basic ways to do this:

1. Import KDS (non-processor Expert) Project: To do this, you need to install the GNU arm Eclipse plug-in and the GNU Arm Eclipse build tool. This makes it possible to use the KDS project as in KDS, with the additional functionality of the Mcuxpresso IDE.

2. Import processor Expert project: As in the above method, but this method needs to install processor expert plugin. This way I can continue to use the processor expert project as in KDS, but keep in mind that NXP does not provide updated device support for processor expert.

3. Porting the KDS project to the Mcuxpresso IDE: This means porting the KDS project to the Mcuxpresso build system. This is a fairly simple way to basically create a new project in the Mcuxpresso IDE and then move the file.

Because there are so many things to describe in an article, I'm only focusing on Method 1 in this article.

For more detailed information, see: http://www.yiboard.com/thread-694-1-1.html

Mcuxpresso IDE: Import kinetis Design Studio Project