Code Red / Red Probe with the 32F4 DISCOVERY board

[bl]

Posted on March 26, 2013 at 12:43

Hi Folks 

I just thought that I would say that using the Code Red tools with the Discovery Board is quite simple:

Move

the

soldered links on SB3 and SB7

to

SB2 an SB6.

The

n all

the

debugger signals are available on

the

headers CN2 and CN3 CN3  1,2,3,4 = VCC, SWCLK, GND, SWO and CN2 5,6 = RESET and SWO. This is a quite a good low cost development system  #code_red #stm32-discovery #stm32f4

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on March 26, 2013 at 12:59

Which Discovery board, remember ST makes about half a dozen of them at this point?

[Andrew Neil]

Posted on March 26, 2013 at 13:34

Shame they don't just support the debug adaptor on the Discovery boards...

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on March 26, 2013 at 15:23

Shame they don't just support the debug adaptor on the Discovery boards...

Yes, because at $150 the

http://home.comcast.net/~wmvegeta/Probe13.JPG

doesn't seem to be a low cost solution, it'd be about $140 lower if it would just work with the ST-LINK out of the box, or one reprogrammed with Versaloon or other firmware replacement. I'm still trying to figure out which Discovery board has SB2

[frankmeyer9]

Posted on March 26, 2013 at 15:35

I'm still trying to figure out which Discovery board has SB2

Or perhaps he was talking about the lpclink on those lpcxpresso boards ?

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on March 26, 2013 at 15:54

No, currently looks like a STM32F0-Discovery or STM32L-Discovery

[Andrew Neil]

Posted on March 26, 2013 at 16:29

From the Code Red support site:

http://support.code-red-tech.com/CodeRedWiki/STM32Support

Debugging of STM32 parts is only supported via Code Red's

http://www.code-red-tech.com/red-probe-plus.php

debug probe (or the original Red Probe).

We do not currently support the use of the ST-Link V2 as a debug connection (either standalone probes or built in to STM32 ''Discovery'' and STM32 ''EVAL'' boards).

For ST's EVAL range of boards these are generally fitted with a standard debug connector, as well as an ST-Link/V2, so you can directly plug Red Probe+ into them.

For ST's Discovery range of boards, we have heard of customers who have successfully connected an external probe to these boards. We haven't tried this out ourselves so cannot make any guarantees, but the following external web page may provide you with sufficient information to achieve this...

• http://e.pavlin.si/2011/10/24/stm32f4-discovery-and-ulink2/

[bl]

Posted on March 27, 2013 at 11:08

Sorry I Obviously left out some details here:-

This this is the 34F4 discovery board, specifically the f407vg is the device on the board. (I've changed the title of this thread to make it easier to be searched for)Why do I say low cost, well if you look at the commercial license for the big four tool chains that ST support it comes in at over 1000 UKPs where as the CodeRed compiler and jtag comes in at around 700 UKPs...or have I got something wrong here.

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on March 27, 2013 at 13:09

..or have I got something wrong here.

I can't say I've priced things recently, Rowley used to be very competitive, and available in several flavours, and usable with ST-LINK. That said if I wanted to be using GNU/GCC I'd take the free one.

[Andrew Neil]

Posted on March 27, 2013 at 13:24

''if I wanted to be using GNU/GCC I'd take the free one.''

Rowley is currently $1500 (GBP 995) for a commercial licence, and uses GCC for ARM:

http://www.rowley.co.uk/arm/index.htm

What you pay for is the ready-to-go debug, and the simulation. Oh - and support.