Macraigor Systems on Tuesday announced availability of a free Eclipse-compliant debugging solution for embedded systems and is joining the Eclipse Foundation.The embedded debugging offering provides embedded systems engineers with a platform for development and debugging with the Eclipse platform. Macraigor also said it was joining Eclipse as an Add-In Provider. Macraigor will work with Eclipse projects including the C/C++ Developer Toolkit to boost embedded development.The debugging solution, called the Macraigor Eclipse + GNU Tools Suite, packages the Eclipse 3.2.1 IDE, open source GNU tools and a program called OCDRemote, to interface between Eclipse, the GNU debugger and a Macraigor On-Chip debug device. “Eclipse is rapidly becoming the development environment of choice for building and debugging embedded systems,” said Craig Haller, chief engineer of Macraigor, in a statement released by the company. “By incorporating the free GNU development and debugging toolset into Eclipse, we are making it possible for embedded systems engineers to use the tools they are familiar with on a platform that improves their productivity.” Software Development