ARM says that KEIL STUDIO CLOUD will no longer be available after End of Life, however their suggestion is to use Arm Keil MDK v6 Community Edition, which lists KEIL STUDIO CLOUD as a tool you can use.
Is it still going to be available after ARM has done their END OF LIFE?
The post refers to Mbed OS support in Keil Studio Cloud. The primary “framework” for Keil Studio Cloud is CMSIS.
Thanks for your incredibly fast response, it is greatly appreciated.
However, does this mean that code that was created in KEIL STUDIO
CLOUD using MBED OS will no longer work after the END OF LIFE?
Or is is possible to have reconfigure the code to work under CMSIS?
I have about 500 students every year that have been using MBED OS with
Keil studio Cloud for several years. I spent 5 years to develop my course and
created about 100 YouTube videos to provide support for this courseware.
I have also developed a course for UDEMY that uses MBED STUDIO,
so you can understand my frustration with this decision by ARM.
Such a wonderful development environment just tossed out leaving a lot of
its users extremely frustrated, with no similar path to move forward. All other platforms
do not have the ease of use for code generation over such a wide range of
microcontrollers. I know because for the last 30 years, I have developed all the
Introductory MicroController courses at Seneca Polytechnic,
Hopefully within the next year MBED CE may come up with something
that might fill the gap, but I am not hopeful…
Dave Ross
Professor, School of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Technology
Seneca Polytechnic, 1750 Fince Ave East North York (Toronto)
Ontario Canada.
Hi Dave,
I work in the education team at Arm. Could you get in contact at: education@arm.com
We would like to understand more about your teaching/courses and then we can explore possible alternatives for you moving forward.
Thanks,
Mark
Dear Mark,
Reading Professor Dave Ross’s post (July 2024 - Point of Confusion - #3 by David_Ross1), I can say I’m in the same situation.
For six years, I’ve been using mbed devices (LPC1768 and other hardware) for my labs and several projects (30 per semester) with my students (250 students).
Keil Studio’s Cloud solution was a near-perfect answer to my needs and questions.
Could you please provide me with a solution before next year so that I can continue to use my hardware devices and my teaching platforms, my test benches and my course materials…
Thanks,
Prof Christophe JOUVE - Head of Embedded Devices & Rototics Department - ECAM LaSalle University - France
We were using the FRDM-K64 board that supported everything that MBED had to offer. I found that most of our students are using ESP-32 chips for their final project. As you may know the ESP-32 has BLUETOOTH, and Wifi built into most older boards. Some of the NEWER ESP-32’s (ESP-32C6 and ESP-32H2) also support THREAD and MATTER (Siri , Alexa, Cortana support) .
I got a FREENOVE SUPER STARTER Kit that came with a bread board, Stepper Motor, and just about every conceivable bit of interface hardware you could want, at a cheaper price than the cost of JUST a FRDM-K64.
For software development I am using VSCODE with the PLATFORMIO extension, For Esp-32 it supports the ARDUINO FRAMEWORK (and Espressif’s own IDF Framework),
There is support for 100’s of boards and variants, using PLATFORMIO.
I originally tried using PlatformIO with the FRDM-K64, but found that the ESP-32 was a much more versatile and cost effective solution.
Hope this helps.
Dave Ross
Professor, School of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Technology
Seneca Polytechnic
Toronto, Ontario, Canada