BDM cable for Programming in ColdFire a must ???

Not sure what you are looking for. ColdFire has external memory and can run from RAM or non-boot flash device. So IAP is inherently supportible. However the details would be completely implementation-specific. There is no truly generic way to program attached memories; you would have to start with a system that already has a functional bootloader.

Hi

Kindly excuse my ignorance......

My situation is this :

I'm looking at procuring a ColdFire Evaluation Board for MCF5282. I intened to use Eclipse IDE with the GNU toolchain from codesourcery.com

I therefore now have options for a compiler, Simulator and a Debugger.

Now, for example i want to test a simple UART routine or some other serial Communication routine, how will i load the "hex" file generated by my compiler into the target device ??

If i were working on ARM, i would have simply used a utility called Flash Magic, which is a flash programming utility, available for free. The only hardware interface this requires is a simple serial cable.

Can i similarly write a routine, & load my hex onto the memory of my ColdFire controller, using a simple, freely available software, without having to purchase a BDM/programmer cable from PE-Micro or anyone else??

Hope this is clear.

regards

techie.

what you are looking for. ColdFire has external memory and can

You probably need a BDM cable.

You'd either use a bootloader already resident in the EVB, or you'd use a BDM cable.

No, you wouldn't - this utility is specific to an on-chip bootloader interface inside Philips (well, "NXP" as the marketing idiots now call it) ARM chips. It is decidedly NOT generic to all ARM parts.

What software is preloaded onto the EVB? If it has gdb stubs, or some other monitor program preloaded, you can then probably talk to it with just a serial cable. Otherwise you need a BDM cable. What does the EVB include, anyway? Maybe a debug interface is built right onto the board.

hi

thanks for that

that explains it all...

regards

techie.

probably need a BDM cable.

already resident in the EVB, or you'd use

you wouldn't - this utility is specific to an on-chip bootloader

software is preloaded onto the EVB? If it has gdb stubs, or some

Take a look here... Working hardware with Eclipse on the coldfire for $99.00

It's not as much fun as scraping together the bits and peices, but do you want to build tools, or write code?

This just went up on the web Friday. It's not an introductroy price, its going to be the regular long term price for that development kit.

Paul

What am I missing here? The $99 price appears to be for the "bottom" board only, not for a complete CPU + peripherals.

This seems to be just the Expansion Board & not the CPU boards with it :(

Besides it dosent have ADC's, therefore really not very useful for my project :(

Krish

larwe wrote:

I will post from my Netburner account in the morning. If you read the whole page it talks about the software and the CPU module. THE CPU MODULE IS INCLUDED for thoose prices.

If you want a unit with A/D the larger carrier board with the MOD5282 and all software is $299.00. In all cases we offer a 30 day return. If you are sckeptical please go to the Netburner Yahoo group and ask for an opinion from our users.

The individual modules are $79.00 for the MOD5270.

We'll get the web pages fixed in the next day.

The low cost option is new and we wanted to contrast the carrier boards. Its a a forrest and trees thing we had a review meeting to make sure we clearly differentiated between the carrier boards. None of the six people that reviewed it caught that it seems like you are just buying a carrier board.

We were so focused on showing whats different between the 299 and 99 kit we missed the obvious ommision..

Paul

Hello Paul

Well, I was'nt being sskeptical, was just reading what your website had to say. you are right, i missed the obvious. No offence meant or taken ! :-)

Does Net Burner plan to come up with a similar low-cost pricing for MCF5282 as well??

I saw the Eclipse Video on your site. seems to be pretty good. Will do a lot of good for the ColdFire-Eclipse Community!

cheers

krish. snipped-for-privacy@Rasdoc.com wrote:

The webpage has been revised to be clearer.

Paul