Men In Black are back! Flashing and FX’ing…

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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Recovering my Chinese OSBDM

At the University the lectures started, and as well all the bachelor diploma and industry projects. So I am running out of my TWR-MCF52259 boards as they are used by my students. No problem, as I have one remaining board in my shelf. I plugged the board into my machine, but YIKES! Look at this:

Chinese OSBDM?

Chinese OSBDM?

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MCU10.2 is here! Or: 4 t-shirts in 13 weeks…

CodeWarrior for Microcontrollers V10.2 has been released and is available for download from the Freescale MCU website!

CodeWarrior for MCU 10.2 Startup Screen

CodeWarrior for MCU 10.2 Splash Screen at Startup

In my view the V10.2 is a big step forward. Nothing is perfect, nor is V10.2. But V10.2 is so much better compared to the V10.1 release. Yes, indeed continuous improvements. Here is why…..
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