Tools installation

Published on October 8, 2025 at 8:00 PM

The Atomic Designer V5 tool uses a number of free tools from multiple vendors. These tools are required for optimal use of the Atomic Designer V5 tool. The following tools must be downloaded and installed:

  • Visual Studio 2022
  • GCC compilers
  • J-Link and ST-Link programmers

Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio 2022 is used as the editor for the C source code and for the simulation target. MSBuild is used as the compiler for building the C-code. The Win32 API is used to execute the C-code.

 

Visual Studio 2022 can be downloaded at location:

visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/

For detailed description of the installation see:

Installing Visual Studio 2022

Gcc Compilers

MsBuild is used for simulation. For target microcontrollers, a GCC compiler is used.

Tested compilers include:

 

arm-none-eabi-gcc-4.9.3

This compiler can be downloaded at the following location:

launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded/+download

The location of the compiler must be added to path in the environment variables by executing gccvar.bat in directory::

C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU Tools ARM Embedded\4.9 2015q3\bin\

After doing that reboot the system to enable using the compiler from the commandline.

 

arm-none-eabi-gcc-7.2.1

Deze compiler is te downloaden at location:

developer.arm.com/downloads/-/gnu-rm

The location of the compiler must be added to path in the environment variables by executing gccvar.bat in directory::

C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU Tools ARM Embedded\7 2017-q4-major\bin

After doing that reboot the system to enable using the compiler from the commandline.

Programming tools

The paid versions of the Atomic Designer V5 tool requires programming tools.

The programming tools used are:

Jlink

The location of the installer of  Jlink is:

segger.com/downloads/jlink/

The following path must have been added to the path variable of the environment variables when selecting version V7.98h:

C:\Program Files\SEGGER\JLink_V798h

Reboot the system to allow using Jlink from the commandline.

ST-Link

The location of the installer of  ST-Link is:

st.com/en/development-tools/stsw-link004.html

Add ST-Link to the path variable in the environment variables. The following path must be added:

C:\Program Files (x86)\STMicroelectronics\STM32 ST-LINK Utility\ST-LINK Utility

Reboot the system to allow using ST-Llink from the commandline.