Replacement of development environment for LPC2388

[perdrix]

Consider a design based on the NXP LPC2388 ARM uP.   A lifetime buy of those has been made, so there is no wish to change the hardware.

The development environment being used now is the Keil MDK at a fairly eye-watering cost (need the TCP/IP, USB etc. stacks).   Would like to stop using that.

I'm interested to hear your recommendations for a development environment that will be reasonably pain free to migrate to and is ideally open source.

Ease of migration is the key issue here.

Thanks
David

[nctnico]

Any GCC based environment should be able to do the job and throw in FreeRTOS as well. Nowadays NXP has a system in place that lets you put together a board support package pretty quick. But I think you'll need to spend time porting the software you have to run on a different OS and protocol stacks.

[cfbsoftware]

I haven't used it myself but an alternative commercial GCC-based solution that may be worth investigating is Rowley Crossworks:

https://www.rowley.co.uk/arm/index.htm

[engineer_in_shorts]

So that we understand alternative suggestions, Why stop using Keil when development is already underway?... Assumes there is some licenses already purchased.