NXP Kinetis Design Studio v3.2.0

For my classes I had so far asked the students to install the Kinetis Design Studio (KDS) v3.0.0 and then apply several updates and upgrades available. NXP has now released the v3.2.0 of their KDS (Kinetis Design Studio):

Kinetis Design Studio v3.2.0

Kinetis Design Studio v3.2.0

The v3.2.0 is including all the 3.x.x updates in a single installation which makes things easier to start with. And it now works for Mac OS X “El Capitan” and the latest GNU ARM Eclipse plugins :-).

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Flashing many ARM Boards without a Host PC

So here I have 50 new NXP Kinetis K22 Robot boards (see “Zumo Robot with Magnetic Encoders“), and they all need to be programmed with the first firmware on the bench:

Programming Robot Boards

Programming Robot Boards

The challenge is: how to do this in a fast an efficient way, without the need for an IDE or even host PC machine?

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