ColdFire MCF5213 Evaluation Kit

This ColdFire evaluation board with GCC development software is all in a package costing less than 100 UK Pounds ( 140 Euro ).

It makes an ideal evaluation kit for getting started on ColdFire MCF5213 projects or just as a high power programmable unit for small volume applications.

The MCF5213 device is a 32-bit ColdFire processor which incorporates 256KB of Flash, 32KBytes of RAM, Digital I/O, ADC, QSPI, PWMs, timers, a PLL, I2C and more. The 32 bit processor runs at a system clock speed of up to 80MHZ which gives 76MIPS of performance.

Included is the 64K Starter Edition of our software development package which provides the capability to compile, debug, and flash program up to

64KB of user C code. This software suite includes the In Circuit Debugger, Flash Programmer, and integrated environment with built in GCC Compiler. A Quickstart Manual and sample template project will give you a jump start on your own interrupt driven firmware design.

Powerful features of the DEV5213CF development board include: Contains an embedded USB to BDM interface for easy debug and flash programming Large through-hole development area including SOIC and TSSOP pads RS232 transceivers for the processors serial ports UART0 and 1 Built in circuitry to provide a clock to the target from an 8Mhz crystal or a user provided oscillator. LEDs connected to GPT0/1/2/3 port pins. These may be disabled via on-board jumpers. RESET, IRQ1 and IRQ2 buttons Headers providing access to all the processor's pins - individually labelled for easy access.

Schematics of the DEV5213 development board are supplied

The software included in the kit is a starter version of our full ColdFire Package Pro so when more code space is needed upgrading will be trivial. The starter kit WinIde limits source to 5000 lines, symbols to 2500, the load size (64K) into the debugger, the programming size (64K) in the flash programmer, and the code size (64K) of the output file generated by the compiler. No limitation is made to the GCC compiler included in the starter kit which can be run without limitation from outside of the development environment.

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I almost bought one of those until I realized that you can't use the GNU toolchain with that internal BDM. It would cost about 2.5 times more than the board itself to get a BDM device that can be used with gdb.

Of course, you can probably use the internal Debug monitor program in flash (does it come on the 5213?) to D/L programs into RAM for execution, but that won't support flash programming, or single-step and breakpoints with gdb.

Freescale has a nice serial monitor for their 9s12 family (AN2548), which allows you to fully debug remotely using only a serial cable, but they don't have a version of this for Coldfire. I've asked Freescale whether they would make something like this for Coldfire and they said they have no plans at this time.

It's sad that Coldfire tools are much more expensive than Arm tools, but this is apparently due to the difference in popularity between these families.

Eric

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Eric

Take a look at:

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MCF5213 development with tools for $99.00

Paul

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pbreed

You guys have great boards at a low price, but the same comment applies to you: the cost of a BDM device exceeds the cost of the dev board by a big margin. Without the BDM the debugging experience is about what we had in the early 90's. Not impossible by any means, but not exactly what we're used to, either.

This isn't meant as a slam against your boards, but rather it's an open-ended question about why there aren't any low-cost BDM devices for Coldfire. Surely it can't be terribly expensive to use a CPLD for that purpose? Or a lpc214x BDM solution seems fairly cheap to implement.

The Arm people have USB debug devices for under $70 (US), but Coldfire has nothing close to this price range for BDMs. A lowly parallel port BDM from P&E runs about $200, and their USB device is $249. I don't care for an entry price of $300 for the board and BDM.

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Eric

A couple of comparison points: Zilog have USB debug for ~$50, optoisolated debug for ~$75

Silabs include USB debug access, in even their $10 ToolStick and their boxed USB debug adaptor is $35.

-jg

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Jim Granville

AFAIK Phytec offers a wiggler-clone for about 100Euros, maybe less.

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42Bastian Schick

Eric.........

Its got a USB interface on the board so no additional cost

Chris

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Chris Stephens

But that's a proprietary interface that doesn't work with gdb. It only works with the commercial tools.

Eric

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Eric

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