Tag Archives: P&E

Programming part of flash

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In many cases I do a full erase-flash-debug cycle: I get my embedded microcontroller flash completely erased and then programmed with my application. Well, that does not work that way if I program with a bootloader. Yes, I can flash the bootloader and then load my target application with the bootloader, but that’s not the scenario I want to use in the development phase. I want to flash my application and keep the bootloader on the target. This means: I need to do erase and program a part of the memory. But how to do this?

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Scripting: The Debugger Shell, Getting started…

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(This is the first in an occasional series around the scripting in eclipse and CodeWarrior. Post a comment – let me know what you think!)

Writing code should be fun, and debugging it is just a necessity because I rarely get it right the first time. Eclipse with its GUI is a great thing, and so is a command line interface. Luckily the CodeWarrior eclipse engineers have added that kind of tool for the CodeWarrior debugger: the Debugger Shell as command line debugger using the TCL scripting language. This gives me a powerful way to deal with the embedded target board: from basic access to memory, to stepping and controlling the execution up to programming the flash memory.

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Dissection of MCU10 Projects

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Creating an eclipse managed make project with MCU10 is easy: Starting the wizard with File > New > Bareboard Project and after a few clicks I have a project. I don’t need to worry about all the files in the project structure, until……..well, until I need to put the files into a VCS.

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

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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

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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…

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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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