http://www.microcontroller.com/news/Atmel_AVR_Studio_5.asp

The feature looks quite good. Now it is using a unified IDE
for the AVR and AVR32. The current AVR32Studio
is using Eclipse based IDE and runs under
Linux/Windows.

"Features of the new Atmel AVR Studio 5 include:

    * Visual Studio Editor
    * Support for all Atmel tinyAVR, megaAVR, AVR, XMEGA, and
      AVR UC3 microcontrollers
    * C/C++ compiler
    * Assembler
    * Linker
    * Debugger & Simulator
    * Support for target board debugging via JTAG or PDI (Program
       Debug Interface)"

Their reason of not using Eclipse is quite interesting.

"All of Atmel's future development environments will be based upon
the AVR Studio IDE. Atmel will no longer support Eclipse-based IDEs
or editors. As Eclipse is more geared towards desktop PC software
development, Eclipse has not proven itself as efficient or effective as
a dedicated embedded development IDE such as AVR Studio."

The downside of using Visual Studio interface is the loss
of potential support for Mac OS X and Linux.

So Atmel is going a detour now. Microchip, on the other
hand, has the unified IDE for all PICs all along, but no
Linux support last time. Now Microchip is going to support
Linux and Mac OS X along with Windows with the new
Netbean based MPLAB IDE X.

Microchip is still doing quite well now. But Atmel is doing
much better than last time. So let's see if this move
will affect any thing or not.


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