Keil (company)

Keil

Industry	Embedded Software
Founded	1986
Headquarters	Munich; Plano
Products	compiler, assemblers, debuggers, linkers, IDE, real-time operating systems, evaluation boards
Website	keil.com keil.arm.com

Keil is a German software subsidiary of Arm Holdings. It was founded in 1982 by Günter and Reinhard Keil, initially as a German GbR. In April 1985 the company was converted to Keil Elektronik GmbH to market add-on products for the development tools provided by many of the silicon vendors. Keil implemented the first C compiler designed from the ground-up specifically for the 8051 microcontroller.

Keil provides a broad range of development tools like ANSI C compiler, macro assemblers, debuggers and simulators, linkers, IDE, library managers, real-time operating systems (currently RTX5)^[1][2][3] and evaluation boards for over 8,500 devices.^[4][5]

In October 2005, Keil (Keil Elektronik GmbH in Munich, Germany, and Keil Software, Inc. in Plano, Texas) were acquired by Arm.^[6][7][8]

Since the merger with Arm, the company is still active in providing products and services.^{[9][10][11][12]}

See also

• Arm Holdings
• ARM architecture family
• Embedded system
• Mbed

References

1. Ltd, Arm. "Keil RTX5 – Arm". Arm | The Architecture for the Digital World. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
2. Yiu, Joseph (2011-01-01), Yiu, Joseph (ed.), "Chapter 18 - Using SVC, PendSV, and Keil RTX Kernel", The Definitive Guide to the ARM Cortex-M0 (in German), Oxford: Newnes, pp. 331–359, ISBN 978-0-12-385477-3, retrieved 2021-04-05
3. Ungurean, I.; Gaitan, N. C. (May 2018). "Performance analysis of tasks synchronization for real time operating systems". 2018 International Conference on Development and Application Systems (DAS). pp. 63–66. doi:10.1109/DAAS.2018.8396072. ISBN 978-1-5386-1493-8. S2CID 49537670.
4. "MDK Version 5". www2.keil.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
5. "MDK5 Device List". www.keil.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
6. "ARM and the man - Tech Design Forum Techniques". www.techdesignforums.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
7. "Press Release: ARM Drives Momentum in Microcontrollers with Keil Acquisition". www.keil.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
8. "Corporate Information About Keil". www.keil.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
9. "Keil tooling at Embedded World 2021: Cloud Computing". community.arm.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
10. "Arm Keil MDK for STM32F0, STM32L0 and STM32G0 - Complete software development solution for all STM32F0, STM32L0 and STM32G0 devices. Includes C/C++ Compiler, IDE/Debugger, CMSIS components, RTOS - STMicroelectronics". www.st.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
11. "Arm FuSa RTS". www2.keil.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.
12. "Keil Product News". www.keil.com. Retrieved 2021-04-05.

External links

• Official site
• Keil Application notes
• RTOS on GitHub
• CMSIS-rtx on GitHub