Meanings
plural toolsuites · alternative tool-suite
- computingA set of related tools (software used to develop software or hardware, or to perform low-level operations) that are distributed together.
The CD also includes GNU toolsuite with EMACS language-sensitive editor
1999, Ben Cohen, VHDL Coding Styles and Methodologies, page xi4 more examples
2. Overall project productivity enhancement as a result of NAS support for rapid prototyping, runtime instrumentation toolsuite, and encapsulation of the difficult capabilities required in any distributed real-time system
1989, Walker Royce, “Reliable, reusable Ada components for constructing large, distributed multi-task networks: Network Architecture Services (NAS)”, in Proceedings. TRI-Ada ’89, page 500In the past 15+ years, our team has created and evolved a tool-suite for model-driven software development that we call ‘Model-Integrated Computing’ (MIC) suite [24].
2010, Gabor Karsai, “Lessons learned from building a graph transformation system”, in Gregor Engels, Claus Lewerentz, Wilhelm Schäfer, Andy Schürr, Bernhard Westfechtel, editors, Graph Transformations and Model-Driven Engineering: Essays Dedicated to Manfred Nagl on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday, page 203To support the complex SeCo lifecycle, we have designed a toolsuite that comprises a variety of instruments, structured as an online development platform
2011, Marco Brambilla, Luca Tettamanti, “Tools supporting search computing application development”, in Stefano Ceri, Marco Brambilla, editors, Search Computing: Trends and Developments, page 180If the compiler was installed correctly, the dialog will show Microchip C18 as the active language toolsuite. The toolsuite contents window will list the four programs required in project development
2018, Julio Sanchez, Maria P. Canton, Microcontrollers: High-Performance Systems and Programming, page 92
Origin
Compound of tool + suite. Attested from the 20th century (see quotations below).
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