The Component Development Environment (CDE) is an Eclipse plug-in tool that provides a graphical interface to create, edit, and package embedded components. It can generate initialization code, fully operational drivers or package a software algorithm.
You can create new components using the Component Development Environment. You only need to determine Properties, Methods, and Events and make the implementation of methods and events. The CDE generates the script template with declaration files such as, header files in C as well as the structure of the source code. This tool facilitates the reusability of existing components by supporting inheritance of components, and helps in the edition of the component by providing a full development environment that provides code completion, syntax coloring, and syntax error.
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