Welcome to CrossWorks for ARM!

CrossWorks for ARM is a streamlined integrated development environment, compilation tools, and libraries for building, testing, and deploying applications on ARM7, ARM9, XScale and Cortex-M3 microcontrollers.

Documentation overview

A comprehensive collection of technical documentation, including reference material, release notes, sample code, technical notes, and Q&As. Each of the links below leads to the resources for a specific topic. Key resources also include getting started documents, API references, and cross-references for related topics.

Getting Started
The CrossStudio Tutorial section gives an overview of how to get started with CrossWorks for ARM.
Support Packages
View the details of the device and board support packages you currently have installed.
Release Notes
Please take a moment to read the release notes for this version of CrossWorks.
Tasking Library
Documentation on the multi-priority, preemptive, multi-tasking and synchronisation library.
C Library
Comprehensive documentation on the functions, macros, and variables that comprise the CrossWorks C library.
ARM Library
Documentation covering ARM devices and runtime libraries.
CrossStudio
CrossStudio is the CrossWorks integrated development environment and where you will spend most of your time when using CrossWorks.
Code Editor
A powerful text editor tuned for editing source code with multi-level undo and redo, makes editing a breeze.
Project System
A complete project system organises your source code and build rules.
Build System
A single key press builds all your applications in a solution, ready for download onto a development board.
Help System
The built-in help system provides context-sensitive help and a complete reference to the CrossStudio IDE and tools.
Source Code Control
Develop applications in teams with links to SourceSafe, SourceOffSite, and CVS.

If you have a question or need some help working with CrossStudio, please take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions pages or use CrossStudio's Help Window to search the online documentation. If this still doesn't answer your query, you can submit a question to us using our Helpdesk system.