ARM Announces Development Studio

British chip designer ARM has announced the Keil Development Studio 5 (DS-5) Application Edition for ARM-based Linux systems. ARM claims that the DS-5 Application Edition developed as a tool designed to simplify the development of source Linux and Android applications for systems based on ARM processor. It was built to shorten the cycle of writing code and testing. DS-5 Application Edition features Eclipse-based project manager, Linux application debugger, and ARM Cortex A8 processor-based SoC for fast ARM Linux development. He supports the OMAP35x processor-based Beagleboard and Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP35x evaluation module.