Intel system development kit

<p>Each time <a href="/facts/Intel_Corporation/SMF0gJJX">Intel</a> launched a new <a href="/facts/Microprocessor/Fx9CaQht">microprocessor</a>, they simultaneously provided a system development kit (SDK) allowing <a href="/facts/Computer_engineering/5x1TRKGo">engineers</a>, 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, and <a href="/facts/EPROM/kXcEca36">EPROM</a> program memory. Intel's <a href="/facts/Intellec/kzsQx3xN">Intellec</a> development system could download code to the SDK boards.
</p><p>In addition, Intel sold a range of larger-scale development systems which ran their <a href="/facts/ISIS_(operating_system)/xJMURtnq">proprietary operating systems</a> and hosted development tools –  <a href="/facts/Assembler_(computing)/7XuV0cla">assemblers</a> and later <a href="/facts/Compiler/WNfCDFJe">compilers</a> –  targeting their processors. These included the <a href="/facts/Intellec_Microcomputer_Development_System/kzsQx3xN">Microcomputer Development System</a> (MDS), Personal Development System (PDS), <a href="/facts/In-circuit_emulator/lcXrRxYd">In-Circuit Emulators</a> (ICE), <a href="/facts/Device_programmer/Gg0UkuqW">device programmers</a> and so on. Most of these were rendered obsolete when the <a href="/facts/IBM_PC/yhcJGMPL">IBM PC</a> became a de facto standard, and by other standardised technologies such as <a href="/facts/JTAG/IxRc5rG7">JTAG</a>.
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Intel system development kit