The Processor Expert USB CDC component posted in USB or not: CDC with Processor Expert has found many friends :-). A new version is available for download here with examples. It adds a bunch of new features and makes many things: simpler dependencies and setup, generation of an easily accessible cdc.inf and availability of error hooks. I have it running now with the TWR-MCF52259 and the DEMOJM (MCF51JM128 and S08JM60). Continue reading
This error message is something I see nearly every day in the Problems View:
mingw32-make: *** No rule to make target ….
No rule to make target
Ok, you are probably new to Eclipse, and want to do the fun part: Creating an Eclipse Processor Expert project in CodeWarrior for MCU10.2. Cool! Here are some steps and tips to make it smooth from the beginning…
I have that wonderful project in MCU10.2 with Processor Expert using Embedded Components. It took me a while to carefully configure the settings, and now it works like a charm. I have another project and need the same components and settings in there. But how?
In my class a student wanted to run CodeWarrior MCU10.2 with Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin) on a 64bit notebook. According to the Freescale Website, that version of Ubuntu is not supported. And indeed, if you install CodeWarrior and launch it, it does not work. The splash screen comes up, but then it aborts. Claiming in the workspace/.metadata/.log file that it cannot find the libswt-gtk-java and libxtst6 packages. Continue reading
Multiple screens are a real productivity booster for every developer: it extends your ‘real estate’ and allows you to have more things visible all the time. Personally I always have a dual screen system in use. Well, except when I’m traveling. But I wish I would have it there too! Eclipse started to support the multiscreen environment already a while back. Continue reading
I have mentioned in MCU10.2 released a new feature in CodeWarrior: support for the USB Universal Multilink FX from P&E Microcomputer Systems. Two Multilink FX arrived last week at the University, and finally I had my hands around it. The first thing which came to my mind when I saw the picture of the device on the P&E website: the black boxes are back!
Can I hope for a “Special FX Edition” in that box with cool sunglasses and a flash stick to erase and reprogram FLASH memory of microcontrollers? That would definitely make the flash erasing and programming easy and fast, as in the movie. 🙂
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Yikes! Flashing failed!
All I wanted to do was to re-flash my boot loader on the TWR-LCD board with the ColdFire V1 MCF51JM128 on it. Trying to this gave me a P&E Connection Assistant dialog: Continue reading
I use a Intel processor to write this text, and this processor is is using Little Endian for the byte order. This is about Endian, not Indian :-).
Many processors I have programmed were Big Endians. With the addition of Freescale Kinetis (an ARM Cortex M4) and DSC in MCU10.2, I have a daily mixture with Big Endian (S08, ColdFire, …) and Little Endian (DSC and Kinetis).
The term “endian” is described nicely in the IEN 137 written 1980 by Danny Cohen:
“ON HOLY WARS AND A PLEA FOR PEACE“.
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