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Debug with SWO on stm32f4discovery and IAR EW

tr3sspas
Associate
Posted on January 21, 2015 at 00:27

I read absolutely all the posts in this forum plus some other posts online and I can't still make this work with IAR and the Terminal I/O screen.

I can however make it work using the ST-Link Utility and the Printf via SWO. But I can't have both running at the same time and I would like to debug completely with IAR. SWO Config on debug screen:
  • SWO Configuration CPU Clock set to: 144 MHz (the one that works with St-link utility)
  • ITM Stimulus Ports all the 0 ports checked.
  • SWO Clock: Autodetect.
General Options > Library Configuration:
  • Library: Full
  • Semihosted
  • stdout/stderr Via SWO
ST-LINK option in IAR:
  • Interface: SWD
  • CPU Clock: 144MHz
  • SWO Clock: Auto (2000Khz same as St-link utility)
And the code to summarize what I added:

#include ''stdio.h''
static
void
TextOut(
const
char
*str);
int
main(
void
)
{
TextOut(
''It works!''
);
}
void
TextOut(
const
char
*str)
{
do
{
if
(*str==
'\n'
) ITM_SendChar(
'\r'
);
ITM_SendChar(*str);
} 
while
(*str++);
}

This works perfectly in ST-Link Utility, and I can read the ''It works!''. But if I debug it with IAR it gets stuck inside core_cm4.h:


__STATIC_INLINE uint32_t ITM_SendChar (uint32_t ch)

{

if
((ITM->TCR & ITM_TCR_ITMENA_Msk) && 
/* ITM enabled */

(ITM->TER & (1UL << 0) ) ) 
/* ITM Port #0 enabled */

{

while
(ITM->PORT[0].u32 == 0);

ITM->PORT[0].u8 = (uint8_t) ch;

}

return
(ch);

}

It gets stuck on line 6:
while
(ITM->PORT[0].u32 == 0);
And nothing shows up in the Terminal I/O screen. Any ideas why is this happening? And why the exact same code would work on ST-Link Utility? Thanks
2 REPLIES 2
Posted on January 21, 2015 at 02:17

Try the Debug_ITMDebugEnable() function from here, different debuggers may configure the CPU in slightly different ways. Print out the debug/itm registers if you want to see the differences.

printf(''%08X %08X %08X\n'',*SCB_DEMCR,*ITM_TCR,*ITM_TER);

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tr3sspas
Associate
Posted on January 21, 2015 at 17:32

Thank you Clivel.

The main reason I was trying to send messages directly through ITM is because printf() wasn't working at all.

But it looks like I messed around with some other settings from IAR, after I tried with a new project I could use printf() and get the messages without problems. So I am using that right now.

Thanks, I might need to use a CRC peripheral in the near future.