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<metadesc>Recommended Tools</metadesc> [[Main Page|Back To Main Page]] __NOTOC__ '''This page links to all the tools that I use''' ==Editors and IDE== For text editing there can be only [[http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad++]] IDE I recommend Eclipse [[http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ Eclipse]] ===Microchip=== Microchip PIC Development [[http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/family/mplabx/ MPLab X]] Microchip [[http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en_us/devtools/mplabxc/ XC Compilers]] [[http://www.microchip.com/mla Microchip Application Libraries]] ===Qt=== Windows/Linux Interface coding I recommend [[http://qt-project.org/ Qt]] Along with Qt I recommend using the [[http://qt-project.org/wiki/EmbeddedWidgetDemos Qtembedded Widgets]] To draw advanced graphs easily use [[http://qwt.sourceforge.net Qwt - Qt Widgets for Technical Applications]] Also, very powerful but expensive is Microsoft Visual Studio. ===USB=== USBinterfacing I use [[http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/libusb-win32/wiki LibUSB-win32]] ==Compilers== Stand alone C/C++ Compiler for small applications use [[http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/21205 Borland Command Line Tools]]. The advantage of using Borland is that you do not need external .dll files to run your applications Also use [[http://www.mingw.org/ MinGW]]. This is needed for Qt. This requires shipping a .dll with you applications. Very powerful but very expensive is Intel C Compiler. This is the compiler I use for all my research. It is very expensive unless you are in an academic institute, then the institute will probably have a license or you can get a student license from Intel. ==Image Editors and Viewers== Quick and easy image viewing [[http://irfanview.com/ Irfanview]] SVG Editor [[http://inkscape.org/ Inkscape]] Easy and free paint program [[http://www.getpaint.net/ Paint.NET]] ==PCB Layout== Used to be the hobbyist favourite but quite expensive is [[http://www.cadsoftusa.com/ Eagle]] New favourite and what I will be using from now on is [http://www.kicad-pcb.org KiCAD]] ==Other General Applications== Very handy with libraries such as Qt, OpenCV is [[http://www.cmake.org/ CMake]] Also to listen to music while coding [[http://www.winamp.com/ Winamp]]
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