Re: Coldfire V2 devices and serial debuggers

Hi Harjit,

 > Has anyone got a serial debugger running on a Coldfire V2 MCF52xxx
 > device?

Blunk's TargetTools includes a debug monitor, TargetMon, that connects
to the debugger (Insight/GDB) via Ethernet.

http://www.blunkmicro.com/tools-cf.htm

Currently, when a breakpoint hits, all tasks are stopped and only the
debug monitor runs, in polled mode with interrupts masked and still
communicating over TCP/IP, but we've had this running in an alternate
mode that just suspends the task that hit the breakpoint and lets other
tasks continue running.

We've had other requests from this, from customers doing motor control
as you are, and will be productizing this mode. If you are interested
in trying our software, we can supply this mode for you.

Best regards,
Tim

Harjit Singh wrote:
> Has anyone got a serial debugger running on a Coldfire V2 MCF52xxx devi=
ce?
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> A while back I read that dBug supports the GDB protocol and dBug is a=20
> serial debugger. But all posts I have seen, seem to be about using a BD=
M=20
> based debugger.
> =20
> The reason a serial debugger is prefered to a BDM based debugger is tha=
t=20
> I'm doing some robotics work and I can make the servo code run at a=20
> higher interrupt level than the serial debugger and this will allow me=20
> to debug code with servos running.
> =20
> BDM is too intrusive and it will cause the servos to go nuts.
> =20
> The CF debug docs say that BDM theoretically will steal cycles but=20
> everything I have read says tha the BDM debuggers halt the CPU...
> =20
> Thanks in advance.
> Harjit
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