Bracketeer: the ultimate bracket plugin

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If you are like me, then it is easy to miss a bracket or two in my source code. Or I have tons of closing brackets at the end of a function, and it is hard to tell which one is which? Eclipse comes with basic bracket support: you select/click a bracket, and it helps you to find the closing one. I was pretty happy about that, unless I saw a list of most popular Eclipse plugin. One plugin stood out of the masses in the Top 10 Most Popular New Eclipse Plugins review: Bracketeer. That plugin exactly helps me to solve my problem: which bracket is which?

Brackets

Brackets

It would be really cool to know to which code block each ‘}’ belongs. And Bracketeer can do this for me!

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Uninstalling Eclipse Plugins

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Installation of Eclipse plugins is really ease: I use the menu Help > Install New Software, point to the update site and I have it installed. Uninstallation of a plugin is not that obvious. Not sure why it is so hidden, and yes, I rarely need to uninstall a plugin. But from time to time I try out a new plugin, and if it does not fit my needs, I want to get it removed. How to uninstall it?

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Percepio FreeRTOS+Trace V2.2.2 released

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Percepio has released a new V2.2.2 library of FreeRTOS+Trace (see Tracing with FreeRTOS+Trace from Percepio). The new release comes with many improvements. The trace recording is optimized for more efficient recording and longer trace with the same amount of memory.

Note: Because the trace data structure is changed and optimized, I need the latest tool on the PC/host from http://www.percepio.com.

I have updated the Percepio Processor Expert component to generate and use the new trace library V2.2.2. This includes the new settings in the component properties as shown below:
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Killing Me Softly: Zombies and Debugger Engines

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I’m stressing the CodeWarrior debugger a lot: having multiple boards attached, debugging things in parallel, switching and unplugging boards all the time. I have my eclipse IDE running for several days and nights (up to a week or more), with constantly suspending and resuming and switching networks. And sometimes it is my fault (see Device is Secure?). But well, sometimes the CodeWarrior debugger has a problem too. Luckily, a simple trick gets things back on track.

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Device is secure?

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It is one of these long weekends which allow to catch up on many things. One thing I finally completed was the move to FreeRTOS V7.1.1. With this I did some tests using the Tower boards, including the Kinetis one. So I have rebuild my Kinetis K60 application and was ready to flash the device. But then to my surprise I got this dialog:

Device is secure. Erase to unsecure?

Device is secure. Erase to unsecure?

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FreeRTOS V7.1.1 released

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FreeRTOS V7.1.1 was released beginning of May 2012. Finally I had some week-end time to integrate the changes and upgrade the Processor Expert component for it. V7.1.1 comes with smaller and larger changes. This includes maintenance and better support for various ports. One change is the removal of CLI from the original FreeRTOS distribution, an extra port macro and one trace hook macro.

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Bit Banging I2C

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The Freescale ColdFire V2 (MCF52259) is a great communication device: an embedded Processor like a Swiss Army Knife: Great peripherals, USB and Ethernet interface, a lot of flash application space and up to 64 KByte of RAM. I’m using that core in many projects, and there is great community support for it with boards and software. Unfortunately Freescale somehow provides Processor Expert support only half way for it. Support for the I2C bus is missing :-(.

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Fixing the Morpho Core Exception

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After running the MQX batch installation file for MCU10.2 (see MQX Eclipse Working Sets) I had an error dialog when I inspected my debug/run configuration:

“Error loading data producer reader: com.freescale.morpho.core.CWException: The function “getServiceByContractID” returned an error condition (0x80040154)”

Error loading data producer reader

Error loading data producer reader

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MQX Eclipse Working Sets

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Working Sets are a very useful feature in the Eclipse Framework (see Working Sets Explained). But: with a standard Eclipse distribution it is not possible to import or export working sets. The good news is: the AnyEdit plugins (see 5 Best Eclipse plugins) provides that missing functionality. The other good news is: Buried in the Freescale MQX 3.8 distribution for Eclipse CodeWarrior, there is an even better implementation for the Eclipse Working Sets.

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