Re: Arduino Due vs Mac

[darek <darek.maksimiuk@gmail.com>]

On Saturday, 11 July 2015 15:35:48 UTC+2, Simon Wright  wrote:
> Simon Wright writes:
> 
> > darek writes:
> >
> >> On Monday, 6 July 2015 23:07:59 UTC+2, Simon Wright  wrote:
> >>> Tero Koskinen  writes:
> >>> 
> >>> > Instead of using bossa, buy yourself a real JTAG adapter (Segger
> >>> > JLink, etc.). If you at some point change to a different ARM Cortex-M
> >>> > MCU, same JTAG adapter continues to work with it also (unless you buy
> >>> > some very cheap vendor-specific JTAG).
> >>> 
> >>> That would be the next step. Indeed, without JTAG I don't see how
> >>> anyone programs the Due, because of total absence of debug
> >>> facilities; and it does add considerably to the price (not that I
> >>> can't afford it, just seems a bit much for the hobbyist
> >>> market). You're talking about something like 3 times the cost of an
> >>> STM32F4 Disco board, which has the STLINK interface on-board and a
> >>> straightforward and free software solution for gdb; things stop, ^C,
> >>> get a traceback from last_chance_handler, on to the next problem.
> >>
> >> For my hobby projects (SDR) at home I got this one (non-commercial use): 
> >>   https://www.segger.com/j-link-edu.html
> >> Together with the Olimex board :
> >>   https://www.olimex.com/Products/ARM/ST/STM32-H407/open-source-hardware  and
> >> a hobbyist version of the CrossWorks (http://www.rowley.co.uk/arm/)
> >> environment works very well. I know, its C but I had to start
> >> somewhere :).
> >> Again this is not Ada but it is worth checking:
> >> http://www.mpeforth.com/xc7.htm#versions and
> >> http://www.forth.com/embedded/swiftx-embedded-systems-14.html
> >
> > I'm looking at the Segger EDU version and the Olimex connector (a tenth
> > the cost of the Segger version!)
> 
> Works just fine. I spent a lot of time looking at the 10-pin end of the
> Olimex connector; the red side of the cable, which I believe means pin 1
> is at that end, goes to the inboard end of the JTAG connector.
> 
> I run the GDB server with
> 
> $ jlinkgdbserver \
>     -device ATSAM3X8E \
>     -endian little \
>     -if jtag \
>     -localhostonly \
>     -halt
> 
> (-if swd works too).

Simon, 
 if it helps the doc for the Olimex board is here:https://www.olimex.com/Products/ARM/ST/STM32-E407/resources/STM32-E407.pdf

Cheers,
  Darek