Macraigor says its value-priced USB-2 debugger now supports 32-bit Freescale ColdFire processors. The ColdFire usb2Demon is available with source and binary GNU tools, makefiles, gdbinit, and sample configurations for “most standard ColdFire evaluation boards,” the company says. Ongoing support for future ColdFire processors is also planned.

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ColdFire processors primarily target industrial embedded applications. They are based on 68K cores, and variously support 16-, 32-, and 48-bit instructions. Some of the newest ColdFire processors have shipped with uClinux.

Macraigor says its usb2Demon USB debugger tool, introduced in April, works with on-chip debug interfaces that include JTAG, E-JTAG, OnCE, and COP, at Hi-Speed USB 2.0 transfer rates up to 480Mbit/sec, depending on the capabilities of the processor.

Additionally, Macraigor has added ColdFire support to its Flash Programmer software, available for Linux and Windows. The application provides BDM-based in-circuit flash programming of both internal ColdFire Flash and externally-connected devices, according to the company.

Macraigor Flash Programmer screen capture
Chief Engineer Craig Haller stated, “The Freescale ColdFire architecture [targets] audio, video, graphics, and communications products. The OCDemon technology is a proven on-chip debug solution that will help to accelerate our customers' development of real-time processing applications.”

Availability

ColdFire usb2Demon is immediately available starting at $750. Also available, is an “OCDRemote” application said to allow the use of other versions of the GNU toolset with Macraigor's hardware.

Macraigor ported its proprietary on-chip debugging technology to Linux at the same time that it announced its usb2Demon, earlier this year.

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