CodeRed Debug Perspective in Kinetis Design Studio

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I very much liked the CodeRed Eclipse based IDE (see “Red Suite 5: Eclipse Juno, Processor Expert and unlimited FRDM-KL25Z“). But back in May 2013 CodeRed was acquired by NXP. I have not used much NXP devices for my projects, and as CodeRed was focusing on the NXP parts, CodeRed was not running daily on my desk any more :-(. Well, things might make a full back circle, as NXP announced back March 1st 2015 to acquire Freescale :-). And maybe as a taste how things might come out, the GNU ARM Eclipse plugin release from March 22nd 2015 includes a CodeRed debug view 🙂 🙂

CodeRed Debug Perspective in KDS

CodeRed Debug Perspective in KDS

That debug perspective mimics a CodeRed debug perspective. The advantage of this Eclipse perspective is that it works very well with small screens. This post is about adding this perspective to the recently release Kinetis Design Studio v3.0.0.

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Breadcrumbing Mother’s Day: Minimized Debugging View with Eclipse

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What I love with Eclipse: it has lots of small and useful features, either built-in or available as plug-in. Recently I started to use a feature which is present in Eclipse for some time: the ability to save screen real estate during debugging with the ‘breadcrumb’ view option:

Expanded Breadcrumb View

Expanded Breadcrumb View

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Reduce Eclipse ‘Install New Software’ Installation Time

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In Eclipse, the usual way to add new plugins or extend the IDE is using the menu Help > Install New Software. Same thing for the newly released Freescale Kinetis Design Studio V3.0.0: I add the support for new devices in the Freescale Kinetis SDK from the SDK Eclipse update:

Installing Kinetis SDK v1.2 update in Eclipse

Installing Kinetis SDK v1.2 update in Eclipse

One thing I noticed with this (and all others updates I do) is that they take much time to install. That’s expected if the update needs to be downloaded from the web. But I was wondering why it takes so long even if the files are local?

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Editing Compiler Include (or other) Settings in Eclipse

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So now I have carefully set up my compiler include paths in Eclipse to tell the GNU compiler where to find my header files:

Include Paths

Include Paths

The question is: how can I apply these settings to another project?

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CRC Checksum Generation with ‘SRecord’ Tools for GNU and Eclipse

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One of the things missing for Embedded in the GNU linker is that it cannot generate a CRC checksum. Luckily, there is the solution of using SRecord:

SRecord 1.64 Web Page
SRecord 1.64 Web Page
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Semihosting with GNU ARM Embedded (Launchpad) and Kinetis Design Studio

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A while back I wrote two articles about Semihosting: “Semihosting with GNU ARM Embedded (LaunchPad) and GNU ARM Eclipse Debug Plugins” and Semihosting with Kinetis Design Studio. With using the GNU ARM Embedded (lauchpad) in my Kinetis Design Studio, time for a ‘summary’ post :-).

Semihosting Output in Console

Semihosting Output in Console

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Proof of Concept: Open Source ARM SWD Debug and General Purpose Board

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The Teensy is a great and tiny board (see “USB CDC with the Teensy 3.1 Board“), but it lacks real SWD/JTAG debugging capabilities (see “Hacking the Teensy V3.1 for SWD Debugging“). The Freescale Freedom boards are great, but for many applications too big, and have potentially too many components on it. So what about building a breadboard friendly tiny board which *has* SWD debugging ability *and* can be used to debug another boards?

So here is a working prototype based on the FRDM-K20D50M:

FRDM-K20D50M used as debug probe

FRDM-K20D50M used as debug probe

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Serial Terminal View in Eclipse Luna

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If you have read my article “Serial Terminal View with Eclipse Kepler“, then you are aware that using a Terminal view to a serial connection (COM port) under Eclipse Kepler is pretty much broken. I’m moving some of my projects to the more recent Eclipse Luna release, and the good news is that support is back 🙂

Terminal View with connection to board

Terminal View with connection to board

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