Cosmic:

Technical Articles and Application Notes

Technical articles and Application Notes are provided to help clients to use Cosmic tools in the best possible way.

Application Note: writing optimal C code for ST7

This technical article provides the basics for writing optimal ST7 applications by taking a real-life example and showing how it can be improved modifying both the code and the compiler options.Read

Application Note: Understanding the differences between Cosmic and Metroweks ST7 compilers

This technical article explains the differences between Cosmic and Metrowerks C compilers and is particularly intended for people porting an application from Metrowerks to Cosmic, as well as for people benchmarking the two compilers. Read

Cosmic Software Documentation

This page contains links to the latest Cosmic user's manuals in Adobe PDF format. All files are compressed with WinZip for download efficiency.

IDEA and General Documentation:

IDEA User Manual	IDEA User's manual and Quick Start guide for all processors (PDF format)	idea_and_quickstart.zip
C Language Manual	General C Language Guide for use with Cosmic Cross Compilers (PDF format)	clanguage.zip

Compiler Documentation:

CX_HC05 User Manual	User's manual for the 68HC05 Compiler version and newer.	cx6805.zip
CX_HC08 User Manual	User's manual for the 68HC08 Compiler version and newer.	cx6808.zip
CX_HC11 User Manual	User's manual for the 68HC11 Compiler version and newer.	cx6811.zip
CX_HC12 User Manual	User's manual for the 68HC12 Compiler version and newer.	cx6812.zip
CX_S12Z User Manual	User's manual for the S12Z Compiler version and newer.	S12Z.zip
CX_S12X and CX_XGATE User Manuals	User's manual for the 68HC12 Compiler version and newer.	S12X_XGATE_Users_Guide.zip
CX_HC16 User Manual	User's manual for the 68HC16 Compiler version and newer.	cx6816.zip
CX_68300 User Manual	User's manual for the 68300 Compiler version and newer.	cx68300.zip
CX_ST7 User Manual	User's manual for the STMicroelectronics' ST7 Compiler version 4.4 and newer.	cxst7.zip
CX_ST10_C166 User Manual	User's manual for the ST10/C166 Compiler.	CXST10.zip

ZAP Documentation:

ZAP HC05 Simulator	User's manual for the 68HC05 ZAP Simulator.	zap_6805_sim.zip
ZAP HC05 MMDS/MMEVS	User's manual for the 68HC05 ZAP MMDS/MMEVS.	zap_6805_08_mmds.zip
ZAP HC08 BDM	User's manual for the 68HC08 ZAP BDM.	ZAP_6808_BDM.zip
ZAP HC08 Simulator	User's manual for the 68HC08 ZAP Simulator.	zap_6808_sim.zip
ZAP HC08 MMDS/MMEVS	User's manual for the 68HC08 ZAP MMDS/MMEVS.	zap_6805_08_mmds.zip
ZAP HC08 MON08	User's manual for the 68HC08 ZAP MON08.	zap_6808_mon08.zip
ZAP HC11 Simulator	User's manual for the 68HC11 ZAP Simulator.	zap_6811_sim.zip
ZAP HC11 Monitor	User's manual for the 68HC11 ZAP Monitor.	zap_6811_mon.zip
ZAP HC12 Simulator	User's manual for the 68HC12 ZAP Simulator.	zap_6812_sim.zip
ZAP HC12 In Circuit Debugger	User's manual for the 68HC12 ZAP ICD for P&E's Cable12, Cable12HS and Multilink Parallel BDM interface Cable.	zap_6812_icd.zip
ZAP HC16 Simulator	User's manual for the 68HC16 ZAP Simulator.	zap_6816_sim.zip
ZAP HC16 BDM	User's manual for ZAP 6816 BDM (CABLE16/32).	zap_6816_68300_bdm.zip
ZAP 68300 Simulator	User's manual for the 68300 ZAP Simulator.	zap_68300_sim.zip
ZAP 68300 BDM	User's manual for the ZAP 68300 BDM (CABLE16/32).	zap_6816_68300_bdm.zip
ZAP ST7 Simulator	User's manual for ZAP Simulator targeting STMicroelectronic's ST7.	zap_st7_sim.zip

Download Software

Welcome to Cosmic Software Download Page. You will find here evaluation versions of most Cosmic tools and other free tools. Before downloading please note:

• Evaluation versions are completely free and do not require any registration to work.
• For some targets, Cosmic provides a free size limited version supporting a larger application than the evaluation version. Some free versions may require registration for download and use as noted below.
• The evaluation versions are NOT always the latest version that is available for purchase: for this reason we do not provide the version number for evaluation packages, although we guarantee that what you are evaluating is very similar to the latest version. (basically we rebuild evaluation versions only for major changes).
• All evaluation packages include IDEA, compiler, and ZAP for Simulator. If you would like to evaluate software that works with hardware, please contact us to request a 30 day evaluation of the latest product for the specific hardware.
• Manuals are included in PDF format.

Available downloads for NXP targets:

NXP HC05 evaluation tools. Special version May 2010	Cosmic tools for NXP HC05 family, special version May 2010, limited to 1k.	Kit05.exe
NXP HC05 evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for NXP HC05 family, evaluation version limited to 1k.	cx6805_idea_sim_eval.exe
NXP HC08 evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for NXP 68HC08/HCS08 family including ZAP HCS08 BDM for P&E Multilink Cable. Evaluation version limited to 4k bytes.	cx6808_idea_sim_eval.exe
NXP HC12 evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for NXP HC12/HCS12 family, evaluation version limited to 4k.	cx6812_idea_sim_eval.exe
NXP HCS12X and XGATE evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for NXP HCS12X and XGATE, evaluation version limited to 4k.	cx6812X_xgate_idea_sim _bdm_eval.exe
NXP HC11 evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for NXP HC11 family, evaluation version limited to 4k.	cx6811_idea_sim_eval.exe
NXP HC16 evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for NXP HC16 family, evaluation version limited to 4k.	cx6816_idea_sim_eval.exe
NXP 68300 evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for NXP 68300 family, evaluation version limited to 4k.	cx68300_idea_sim_eval.exe
Power Architecture evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for Power Architecure family, evaluation version limited to 8k.	cxppc_8k.exe
NXP Kinetis (ARM Cortex-based) evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for the Kinetis, CortexM0-based family (for the M3/M4, see here) , evaluation version limited to 4k.	KitCorm0_4K_V4.3.5.exe

Available downloads for STMicroelectronics targets:

STM32 evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for the STM32, CortexM0-based family (for the M3/M4/M7 please use the link above) , evaluation version limited to 4k.	download.php
STRED full Toolchain (GNU-based) and DSP Library	Cosmic and STMicroelectronics co-develop, maintain and support a full Toolchain for the STRED family: GNU-based, no limitations, support included, requires registration and ST approval.	Register & Download
STMicrolectronics Power Architecture evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for the Power Architecture family, evaluation version limited to 8k.	cxppc_8k.exe
STMicroelectronics ST7 evaluation tools	Cosmic tools for the ST7 family, evaluation version limited to 4k.	cxst7_4k.exe