Tutorial: FreeRTOS on DEMOJM

If you are new to Processor Expert in MCU10, and new to FreeRTOS, then you need to learn two new things in parallel the same time. That might be overwhelming. But don’t worry: if you do things step by step and slowly the first time, this much easier than you might think. This tutorial shall help you with this.

This is a step-by-step tutorial about how to create a project with CodeWarrior for MCU10.2, Processor Expert and the DEMOJM board. The goal is to create a project from scratch with two tasks blinking an LED. This tutorial uses the DEMOJM board, but in practice any other ColdFire/Kinetis/S08 board can be used as well.

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Stop on startup

Occasionally I run into this kind of problem: I have downloaded my application, and it immediately crashes or looses the connection:

What happened?

What happened?

What is the problem? It is helpful to understand what happens if I press ‘debug’ in CodeWarrior or any other debugger:

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