Comparaison of different ARM mcu and IDE

[zapta]

The biggest thing to get your head around is the way Eclipse manages projects. When you start it you can point it to a directory. That directory is your workspace. Within that workspace you can create projects which compile into a binary. There is no limit to the kind of projects you can mix. I have Windows applications, embedded firmware and VHDL living happily together in one workspace.

My conventions are to use the default workspace but have the project files in different directories that are controlled by version control. That is, the workspace is mine, the projects are shared.

[nctnico]

Eclipse can do that for you within the workspace. No need to have seperate directories for that. Eclipse also has the tools to merge versions and resolve conflicts.