P&E’s product line of Cyclone stand-alone programmers provides a fast, robust, and automated solution for production-scale programming of microprocessors. However, production facilities may desire an even higher level of automation than the single-button touch capability that is offered by the Cyclone. P&E offers several means of automating control, including a command-line executable, UDP/Serial communications, or the .DLL included in P&E's new Cyclone Automated Control Software Package. In this article, we discuss automated control using the automated control package and the unprecedented level of power and flexibility that it offers.

Click through to learn more about the Cyclone Automated Control Package.

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ICDPPCNEXUS, P&E’s in-circuit debugger for the MPC55xx/MPC56xx processors, uses reset scripts to properly initialize the device when it comes out of reset. In this post we discuss why these reset scripts are necessary and also analyze the contents of these scripts in detail. Click through for more.

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In a previous post, we showed how to use PKGPPCNEXUS and  PKGCFZ_PRO to display the contents of an ELF/DWARF file using Readelf.  In this post, we look at the Readelf output and explain its description of your object code. 

We will use this example Readelf output to illustrate the kinds of information that Readelf provides. Click through to view the example and follow along.

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Did you know you can safeguard data while erasing your flash module during Flash/EEPROM programming? P&E has added a “preserve range” function that can be used in a programming algorithm to preserve memory ranges. The function looks at the range to be preserved, saves it, and restores it after the flash has been erased. Click through to see how to take advantage of this new feature.

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P&E has added a new Chip Select Diagnostic mode to its interactive flash programmers to allow the user to diagnose memory map configuration problems.

P&E’s flash programmers support an extensive array of external flash devices connected to the processor.  P&E’s algorithms are designed to work by default when the flash device is connected to the boot chip select and no modification is needed to the reset configuration of the output enable and write enable lines. However, there are numerous ways in which the flash can be connected that may require changes to the default reset configuration of the processor’s chip select, write enable, and output enable operation.

When another configuration is used, the algorithm may require some modification to work. Click through to see an example of a typical modification to a P&E algorithm, as well as how to run the new Chip Select Diagnostic tool.

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