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Cortex-A8 DS-5 J-Link SBC-i.MX51 Bare-Metal

Dr. Frank W. Pelzer
Note: This was originally posted on 22nd December 2010 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi,

is this the right forum?

I have a J-Link JTAG/USB interface, I recently acquired a Bluetechnix SBC-i.MX51 and I am just this moment downloading the DS-5 EVAL  (30 DAY).

I want to do bare-metal programming, i.e. no Linux no WinCE.

Do I have any chance to achieve this with this set of tools, e.g. with the combination of 'J-Link & DS-5' and with 'DS-5 & bare-metal i.MX51'?

Thanks,
Frank.
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    Note: This was originally posted on 4th January 2011 at http://forums.arm.com

    Hi, yes, this is the right forum.

    The latest DS-5 eval indeed supports bare metal development on an i.MX51. However, in order to do this you need a DSTREAM (www.arm.com/dstream) or RVI (www.arm.com/rvi) target connection unit.

    t the moment there are no plans to support J-Link, although we (ARM) are open to license the RDDI debug interface to Segger, and to support alternative "low-cost" JTAG probes in the future.

    Best regards, Javier
  • Note: This was originally posted on 7th January 2011 at http://forums.arm.com


    The latest DS-5 eval indeed supports bare metal development on an i.MX51. However, in order to do this you need a DSTREAM (www.arm.com/dstream) or RVI (www.arm.com/rvi) target connection unit.


    Hi Javier,

    thanks for the reply. Buying expensive hardware for evaluation goes beyond the scope of evaluation. This is the reason why I played with the Embedded Linux packages up to now (Freescale LTIB, not much success yet for my simple goal). To realize evaluating DS-5 I wonder:

    Does  DS-5 eval contain a simulator and does it simulate beside of instructions also certain peripherals and interrupts? To do something meaningful I would need one timer (+interrupt) and one uart (ideally interrupt, otherwise I had to implement polling before turning myself to my original task).

    Will the simulator be useful to learn about i.MX51? (Of course you eventually need hardware to make real experiences and be able to check the start-up behaviour and so on ...)

    Thanks and cheers,
    Frank
  • Note: This was originally posted on 8th February 2012 at http://forums.arm.com


    Hi,

    is this the right forum?

    I have a J-Link JTAG/USB interface, I recently acquired a Bluetechnix SBC-i.MX51 and I am just this moment downloading the DS-5 EVAL  (30 DAY).

    I want to do bare-metal programming, i.e. no Linux no WinCE.

    Do I have any chance to achieve this with this set of tools, e.g. with the combination of 'J-Link & DS-5' and with 'DS-5 & bare-metal i.MX51'?

    Thanks,
    Frank.


    I'm in the same boat. I'm also evaluating IAR IDE and it does support the j-link device and it works quite well.