Intel system development kit: Difference between revisions

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Each time [[Intel Corporation|Intel]] launched a new [[microprocessor]], they simultaneously provided a '''System Development Kit''' (SDK) allowing [[Computer engineering|engineers]] and, university students, and others to familiarise themselves with the new processor's concepts and features. The SDK single-board computers allowed the user to enter object code from a keyboard or upload it through a communication port, and then test run the code. The SDK boards provided a system monitor ROM to operate the keyboard and other interfaces. Kits varied in their specific features but generally offered optional memory and interface configurations, a serial terminal link, audio cassette storage, EPROM program memory. Intel's Intellec development system could download code to the SDK boards.

In addition, Intel sold a range of larger-scale development systems which ran their [[ISIS (operating system)|proprietary operating systems]] and hosted development tools- [[assembler (computing)|assembler]]s and later [[compiler]]s- targeting their processors. These included the [[Intel Microprocessor Development System|Microprocessor Development System]] (MDS), Personal Development System (PDS), [[In-circuit emulator|In-Circuit Emulators]] (ICE), [[device programmer]]s and so on. Most of these were rendered obsolete when the [[IBM PC]] became a de facto standard, and by other standardised technologies such as [[JTAG]].