Lpc2000

I just got an Olimex LPC-H2294 and have a few quesions.

First, which is the best GCC toolchain to use on Windows. So far, I've
found:

GNUARM:
gcc-3.4.3, insight-6.1 + newlib 1.12.0
http://www.gnuarm.com

Macraigor:
gcc 3.4.0, gdb, insight-6.1-macraigor + glibc
+ their own cygwin distro?
http://www.macraigor.com/full_gnu.htm

CodeSourcery:
gcc + newlib (in EABI or Legacy interfaces?)
new distro May 1 to include gdb & insight
http://www.codesourcery.com/gnu_toolchains/arm.html

What are the tradeoffs? I've heard you can't debug in flash with GNU
tools. I only have a USB cable now, do I need a Wiggler to debug? And
if I have to debug in SRAM how can I use external memory? I'd like to
have access to 1MB as 16K seems a bit tight...

Thanks,
Brian

At 10:15 AM 4/15/05 +0000, deunhido wrote:
>I just got an Olimex LPC-H2294 and have a few quesions.
>
>First, which is the best GCC toolchain to use on Windows. So far, I've
>found:

There is also WINARM


>What are the tradeoffs? I've heard you can't debug in flash with GNU
>tools. I only have a USB cable now, do I need a Wiggler to debug? And
>if I have to debug in SRAM how can I use external memory? I'd like to
>have access to 1MB as 16K seems a bit tight...


You can debug in flash with the wiggler/GDB combination but it's like 
stepping back in time a bit. there are only two breakpoints available and 
you have to set them from the command line/monitor.

If the breakpoints were integrated (as the commercial products manage to 
do) it would be easier.

Robert

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> if I have to debug in SRAM how can I use external memory? I'd like to
> have access to 1MB as 16K seems a bit tight...

You have to initialize the chipselect and maybe the pll from the debugger 
before
downloaing (and also program MEMAP to map the vectors from external RAM).
I do not use gdb so I do not know the excact commands to do so.

-- 
42Bastian Schick

Robert Adsett wrote:
> At 10:15 AM 4/15/05 +0000, deunhido wrote:
> 
>>I just got an Olimex LPC-H2294 and have a few quesions.
>>
>>First, which is the best GCC toolchain to use on Windows. So far, I've
>>found:
> 
> 
> There is also WINARM

>>What are the tradeoffs? I've heard you can't debug in flash with GNU
>>tools. I only have a USB cable now, do I need a Wiggler to debug? And
>>if I have to debug in SRAM how can I use external memory? I'd like to
>>have access to 1MB as 16K seems a bit tight...> 
> 
> You can debug in flash with the wiggler/GDB combination but it's like 
> stepping back in time a bit. there are only two breakpoints available and 
> you have to set them from the command line/monitor.

Make that stepping back in time "a lot" :)
(Frankly this is worse than an F8 development system I've used ages 
ago). I've been using Insight recently on a project and it is very 
painful. OK setting the initial breakpoint is not too bad, but once you 
get there and want to:
a) look at variables you have to flip back into SOURCE only mode as 
MIXED mode (which you used to find the breakpoint hex address) doesn't 
do variable observation. On my Insight this flipping is very slow.
b) You can only single step assembler instructions (istep in gdb). If 
you want to do a whole C line, or step-over a function (I do this all 
the time) it's back to MIXED mode to figure out where the next hex 
breakpoint has to go. Very very painful !!

> If the breakpoints were integrated (as the commercial products manage to 
> do) it would be easier.

Hoping *hoping* this will be soon. Either by Insight ARM extensions, 
Macraigor ocdremote changes or an equivalent.

It'll be interesting to see what CodeSourcery do with Insight (If 
anything new ?).


-- 
Cheers,
Bruce
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