WDC 65xx Development Tools (Tools)

WDC supplies the 65xx brand processor family Professional Software Development Kit (ProSDK) for use in developing PCB (Chip), ASIC (Manuallly Optimized GDSII Hard Core and Verilog RTL Soft Core), and FPGA (Verilog RTL Soft Core) product solutions. These tools support ROMable embedded code and in–circuit debug of control and application software.

ProSDK

The 65xx Professional Software Development Kit (ProSDK) is sold for use in development of products that feature 65xx processors from WDC and its licensees. The ProSDK is NOT for reverse engineering of our technology in any form and is NOT provided for development of commercial products that use non–WDC 65xx processors in Core or Chip form.

It is recommended that you review the Download and Installation Guide before downloading the ProSDK. The guide also includes instructions for finding your MAC address.

The ProSDK is protected software and requires a license file for proper functionality. The TIDE tool will work without a license, giving you the ability to work within the IDE, create projects and edit source code. All other tools including the assemblers and compilers will not function with out a license file provided by the WDC. All Trial and Purchased ProSDK licenses are based on the MAC Address of your Ethernet Adapter. Please provide your MAC Address when filling out the form to download the ProSDK.

Tool suite list:

Terbium Integrated Development Environment (TIDE)

ANSI Standard C Compiler with Optimizer

Simulator/Debugger

Librarian/Symbol Examiner/Object Examiner

Assembler/Linker

ProSDK Download

Download and Installation Guide

Terbium Integrated Development Environment (TIDE) User Guide

The Terbium Integrated Development Environment (TIDE) integrates the WDC 65xx tool suite to maximize and ease your use of our tools and is included with our ProSDK. TIDE will help you get started and in no time at all you will be writing, compiling, and debugging your 65xx code!

W65C02S 8–bit C Compiler with Optimizer User Guide

The WDC W65C02S 8–bit ANSI Standard C Compiler with Optimizer has been validated with the Plum–Hall validation suite. This C compiler can be used with both WDC and WDC’s licensed 8–bit microprocessors and microcontrollers.

W65C816S 8/16–bit C Compiler with Optimizer User Guide

The WDC W65C816S 8/16–bit ANSI Standard C Compiler with Optimizer has been validated with the Plum–Hall validation suite. This C compiler can be used with both WDC and WDC’s licensed 8/16–bit microprocessors and microcontrollers.

W65C02S Simulator/Debugger User Guide

The W65C02S Simulator is used to simulate the functionality of the W65C02S Chip, W65C02S GDSII Hard Core, and W65C02SRTL Verilog RTL Soft Core on your PC and is integrated with the Debugger. The Debugger provides window to watch all microprocessor internal registers, data windows for viewing simulated memory, and debug capabilities to step through code and monitor the behavior of your application using unlimited software and a hardware breakpoints. In addition, the Debugger can download and debug control and applications software to your hardware through a TIDE port. An example of a parallel (fast) TIDE port with supporting monitor can be found in our PCB Design Kit and ProSDK.

W65C816S Simulator/Debugger User Guide

The W65C816S Simulator is used to simulate the functionality of the W65C816S Chip, W65C816S GDSII Hard Core, and W65C816SRTL Verilog RTL Soft Core on your PC and is integrated with the Debugger. The Debugger provides window to watch all microprocessor internal registers, data windows for viewing simulated memory, and debug capabilities to step through code and monitor the behavior of your application using unlimited software and a hardware breakpoints. In addition, the Debugger can download and debug control and applications software to your hardware through a TIDE port. An example of a parallel (fast) TIDE port with supporting monitor can be found in our PCB Design Kit and ProSDK.

Librarian, Symbol Examiner and Object Examiner User Guide

Librarian – (WDCLIB)

WDCLIB is a utility program that manipulates libraries of object modules. WDCLIB makes it possible to create a library of commonly used functions.

Symbol Examiner – (WDCSYM)

The WDCSYM utility provides a means to examine symbol files generated by the WDCLN linker.

Object Examiner – (WDCOBJ)

The WDCOBJ utility provides a means to examine object modules created by the WDCxAS assembler. WDCOBJ will print out the size and type of each section defined in the module, the names of all symbols defined or referenced by the object module, and if desired, each of the data records in the file.

Assembler/Linker User Guide

Assembler – (WDCxAS)

The 65xx Assemblers for the W65C02S and the W65C816S translate assembly language source files into object files.

Linker – (WDCLN)

Since the assemblers do not generate output files the Linker is the program that combines object modules and produces the final object code output in various selected forms for your target.