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A mcu development environment for 8051/AVR/STM8/Cortex-M/MIPS/RISC-V

View on VS Code Marketplace Fresh · Oct 18, 2026

Embedded IDE has 313,110 recorded installs on VS Code Marketplace.

It ranks #1119 of 2,500 tracked VS Code Marketplace listings by installs.

It is rated 5.0 out of 5 from 161 ratings.

PluginStats has 3 daily observations since Oct 16, 2026; the latest is from Oct 18, 2026.

Installs
313,110
Official API · Oct 18, 2026
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Rank
#1119
Among tracked VS Code Marketplace listings

Rating: 4.95 / 5 from 161 ratings

About Embedded IDE

Embedded IDE

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Summary 📑

A mcu development environment for 8051/STM8/Cortex-M/MIPS/RISC-V on VsCode.

Provide 8051/STM8/Cortex-M/MIPS/RISC-V project development, compilation, program flash and other functions.

Supported Platforms: • Windows x64 (>= Windows 10) • Linux x64 • macOS(Only tested in 'macOS 10.15 x64')

Features 🎉

• Support 8051, STM8, Cortex-M, MIPS MTI, RISC-V, GCC projects. • Support to import KEIL5/IAR/Eclipse projects, support to import 'IAR-STM8, IAR-ARM, Segger Embedded Studio' project source file resource tree. • Support for installing standard KEIL chip support packs (only for Cortex-M projects). • Provides many project templates for quick start a project. • Build, rebuild, support many toolchains (armcc, gcc-arm-none-eabi, llvm-for-arm, riscv-gcc, xxx-gcc, keil_c51, sdcc ...). • Program flash, support: jlink, stlink, openocd, pyocd ... • ~~Built-in serial port monitor~~ (recommended to use Serial Monitor plug-in). • Supports static checking projects by using Cppcheck. • Automatically generates default debug configurations for debugger plug-in cortex-debug, STM8-Debug. • Built-in many utility tools, 'CMSIS Config Wizard UI', 'Disassembly view', 'Program resource view'... • Built-in implement C/C++ IntelliSense Provider for ms-vscode.cpptools, Not Need to configurate c_cpp_properties.json file. • Built-in Msys Unix Shell environment. • Built-in Callgraph gui tool for gcc toolchain. • Support the basic functions of the built-in plugins when calling MCP Tools (this needs to be enabled in the settings; MCP server is disabled by default). Skills

Quick Start 🏃‍♀️

1. Install any of the above compilers

2. Open the Operations bar of the extension to set the compiler installation path

3. Click on the New or Import function in the Operations bar to start your project

Getting Start 📖

https://em-ide.com

Example

• Create A Project By Internal Template • Build Project • Flash Project (It failed because there was no connection to the development board, for demonstration purposes only) • Show Source File Disassembly Code • Program Resource View

ChangeLog 📌

ChangeLog

Community 🌈

• Github • Forum https://discuss.em-ide.com

How to build ?

You can build this project by your self.

[!IMPORTANT] The required version of NodeJS is 18 because of some historical reasons for this extension.

1. Install NodeJS 18 (recommanded v18.18.2). You can use nvm to manage your NodeJS. Install vsce by npm install -g cheerio@1.0.0-rc.9 @vscode/vsce@2.15.0

2. Clone this repo, Open folder by vscode and then run command:

3. Press ctrl+shift+b to show vscode task

• Use npm: webpack to build this extension, and then you can press F5 to debug it. • Use build vsix to build as a vsix package.

[!NOTE] There may be syntax errors when opening project source code using VSCode, this is because the project uses an older Version of TypeScript, please press Ctrl+Shift+P to execute TypeScript: Select TypeScript Version... and select version: v5.8.2.

Contribution Guidelines

If you have any good ideas, you can first put forward your suggestions in the issue section. If they are feasible, we will implement them later. If you want to add features by yourself, please also share your ideas at the very beginning (otherwise, we cannot guarantee that your PR will be merged). If you are ready and have completed the debugging and testing, then you can submit a pull request request to the dev branch. Thanks.

Sponsor 👍

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Description from the VS Code Marketplace listing.

  • 8051
  • 8051 Assembly
  • a51
  • ARM Scatter File
  • armcc
  • Armcc Axf Info
  • axf.info
  • c51
  • clang
  • cortex
  • cortex-m
  • cosmic
  • COSMIC LKF
  • eclipse
  • edasm
  • eide
  • EIDE GCC Disassembly
  • elf.info
  • gcc
  • Gnu Elf Info

Where Embedded IDE sits in the listing

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Charts

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Adoption over time

Embedded IDE installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 313,110 installs as of Oct 18, 2026.Embedded IDEInstalls on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days313,110installs312.7K312.8K312.8K312.9K312.9K313K313K313.1K313.1K313.2KJul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18installsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Embedded IDE installs on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 313,110 installs as of Oct 18, 2026.
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7/30/90-day growth

Embedded IDE installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.Embedded IDEInstalls growth on VS Code Marketplace313,110installs now7-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history30-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient history90-day growthinsufficient historyInsufficient historyGrowth vs. nearest observation to each baseline date · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
Embedded IDE installs growth on VS Code Marketplace: 7-day growth unavailable, 30-day growth unavailable, 90-day growth unavailable.
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Ranking history

Embedded IDE VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #1119 (by installs).Embedded IDEVS Code Marketplace ranking · by installs · Last 90 days#1119current rank#1117#1118#1119#1120#1121#1122Jul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18rankOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct 18, 2026pluginstats.com
Embedded IDE VS Code Marketplace ranking history: currently #1119 (by installs).
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Ratings over time

Embedded IDE ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 161 ratings as of Oct 18, 2026.Embedded IDERatings on VS Code Marketplace · Last 90 days161ratings160160.2160.4160.6160.8161Jul 20Aug 4Aug 19Sep 3Sep 18Oct 3Oct 18ratingsobservedarchived (Internet Archive)no observationsOct 16, 2026 – Oct 18, 2026 · 3 observations · Updated Oct…pluginstats.com
Embedded IDE ratings on VS Code Marketplace, last 90 days: 161 ratings as of Oct 18, 2026.
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Filled points are observed values; hollow points come from Internet Archive snapshots of the listing page. Dashed segments span periods with no observations — values between points are not interpolated.

Recent observations

Full history (3)
Recent installs observations for Embedded IDE
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Data source

Install counts, average rating, and rating counts come from the public Visual Studio Marketplace gallery API. Installs are cumulative and exclude updates.

Listing: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CL.eide. First seen Oct 16, 2026; last successful collection Oct 18, 2026. See the methodology.