Nuclei Studio IDE 2023.10

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This is the release note for Nuclei Studio IDE 2023.10.

WARN: This release changed a lot against last 2022.12 release, it introduced in-compatiable with previous Nuclei Studio IDE releases, take care.

• Eclipse CDT

  • The Eclipse CDT version upgraded to 2023.06, it will pop up an incompatiable warning when you open an workspace created by previous Nuclei Studio IDE releases.

• Prebuilt Tools

  • Prebuilt tools such as Nuclei RISC-V Toolchain/OpenOCD/QEMU upgraded to 2023.10
  • Toolchain prefix changed from riscv-nuclei-elf- to riscv64-unknown-elf-, which also affect the IDE toolchain settings
  • Qemu machine nuclei_u/nuclei_n renamed to nuclei_evalsoc, which also affect the IDE qemu debug configuration settings
  • RISC-V ISA naming rules affect the gcc -mach option, see Define -march string riscv-non-isa/riscv-toolchain-conventions#26, and will affect the IDE project target processor extension settings, eg. B extension naming changed to multi-letter _zba_zbb_zbc_zbs not single lettle b
  • Clang17 is also introduced in Nuclei RISC-V Toolchain, and integrated in Nuclei Studio 2023.10, you can try it by download and install nuclei sdk 0.5.0 npk package

• NPK

  • npk.yml file format introduced more features to support both gcc and clang toolchain, and provide flexibility in project wizard configuration stage with more widgets, which is used in Nuclei SDK 0.5.0
  • Introduced Tested by feature in Nuclei Package management, when your package is uploaded to RVMCU NPK cloud, you need to
    set proper IDE versions which you are testing on to let user know which IDE, they should better use
  • To avoid incompatiablity caused by this npk format upgrade, the npk package install folder name changed to nuclei-pack-npk-v2
  • Nuclei SDK Configuration Tool is removed and replaced by Nuclei Settings Tools
  • Nuclei Settings Tools dropped the support for Select C Library, user need to following the https://doc.nucleisys.com/nuclei_sdk/develop/buildsystem.html#stdclib guide to know how to set options for proper c library
  • Nuclei Settings Tools changed BPKV choice to Other extensions input to let user to pass the isa name by themselves

• *Other Utils

  • Introduced support for object elf viewer in Nuclei Studio IDE
  • Introduced support for code coverage and profiling support in Nuclei Studio IDE
  • Introduced experimental hardware E-Trace support
  • Introduced and optimize project and workspace one click open feature just like other IDE such as Keil or IAR
  • Introduced an tool to quick convert an old gcc10 project to gcc13 project

For more detailed changes, please check Nuclei Studio 2023.10 User Guide NucleiStudio_User_Guide.pdf.

Please click https://nucleisys.com/download.php#tools to find release 2023.10.

About other tools or SDK release notes, see

• Nuclei RISC-V Toolchain 2023.10
• Nuclei OpenOCD 2023.10
• Nuclei QEMU 2023.10
• Nuclei SDK 0.5.0
• NMSIS 1.2.0

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