Black Magic Probe

Blacksphere created a debugging tool for ARM Cortex microcontrollers:

Black Magic Probe

See what is going on ‘inside’ an application running on an embedded microprocessor while it executes.

Supported ARM Cortex-M based processor families include:

ST Microelectronics: STM32F1xx, STM32F2xx, STM32F4xx
NXP: LPC8xx, LPC11xx, LPC43xx
Atmel: SAM3N, SAM3X, SAM D20
Nordic: nRF51
Luminary Micro / TI: LM3Sxxxx

Black Magic Probe is Open Source Hardware and Open Source firmware:

blacksphere/blackmagic

More details from the project’s wiki:

Control and examine the state of the target microprocessor using a JTAG or Serial Wire debugging port and on-chip debug logic provided by the microprocessor
Probe connects to a host computer using a standard USB interface
Control exactly what happens using the GNU source level debugging software, GDB
Works with Windows, Linux and Mac environments

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The supported chip families are incomplete. Here is a bigger, yet still incomplete list from the wiki:

ST Microelectronics: STM32F1xx, STM32F2xx, STM32F4xx.
NXP: LPC8xx, LPC11xx, LPC43xx
Atmel: SAM3N, SAM3X, SAM D20
Nordic: nRF51
Luminary Micro / TI: LM3Sxxxx

These are some chips for which flashing is supported, as in writing to flash memory. In general, Cortex-M cores are somewhat standardized and should all be supported for loading code to RAM and debugging.

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May 3, 2016 at 5:57 pm Reply