Simultaneous with the youngest member of the TriCore family from Infineon Technologies, the 32bit microcontroller TC1796, pls Programmierbare Logik & Systeme and HighTec EDV-Systeme presented a development environment for this device that was especially designed for automotive applications. The Universal Debug Engine (UDE) allows a program trace at system clock frequencies up to 170MHz, where up to 1 Mega-samples can be recorded. The tool supports debugging and service of TC1796 applications with on-chip multi-CAN. For a direct access to the microcontroller, a CAN-bootstrap loader is available to the user. The optimized and hardware implemented JTAG-Bus-Controller in the Universal Access Device 2 (UAD2) permits download transfers rates up to a maximum of 3,5Mbyte/s to the TC1796 as a target system. The TriCore Compiler System from HighTec is based on GNU technology and is platform independent. Access to special functions of the TC1796 can be performed directly in the high-level programming language. A part from absolute addressing, which facilitates an efficient access to each memory segment, variables can also be addressed register-relative over up to four predefined address registers.