PEmicro's CYCLONE FX programmer provides extremely high-speed and robust debug communications rates for ARM® Cortex® devices. With debug shift speeds reaching 75 Mbits/s, the download and verification rates achieved for almost every ARM Cortex device, even low-speed Cortex M0 parts, are in the MBytes per second range.
This results in the following advantages :
- In most cases, the flash programming rate achieved by the CYCLONE FX is limited by the physical programming time of the underlying flash memory.
- The verification rate for actual byte-by-byte verification is extremely fast. Even for devices where the flash programming rate is limited by the flash architecture, the verification rate that the CYCLONE FX achieves results in substantial time savings.
- As memory sizes increase and target flash technology improves, the impressive bandwidth advantage that the CYCLONE FX has over competitive products will result in ever larger savings on the production line.
CYCLONE FX : Measured Performance Metrics (ARM-Based Devices):
Device | Flash Programming | Verification |
Microchip SAMD20 (Internal) | 204 KB/s | 1845 KB/s |
Microchip SAMV70 (Internal) | 329 KB/s | 3317 KB/s |
NordicSemi NRF52840 (Internal) | 95 KB/s | 1553 KB/s |
NXP i.MX 1052 (Hyperflash) | 1250 KB/s | 2241 KB/s |
NXP Kinetis K70 (eMMC) | 3063 KB/s | 3971 KB/s |
NXP Kinetis KL25 (Internal) | 47 KB/s | 3218 KB/s |
NXP Kinetis K60 (Internal) | 224 KB/s | 2957 KB/s |
NXP LPC1857 (Internal) | 300 KB/s | 2379 KB/s |
SiLabs EFM32GG (Internal) | 273 KB/s | 2105 KB/s |
ST STM32F7 (Internal) | 294 KB/s | 993 KB/s |
ST STM32F7 (Internal, with Vpp)
| 571 KB/s
| 993 KB/s
|
ST STM32L4 (Internal) | 90 KB/s | 2961 KB/s |
CYCLONE FX : Measured Performance Metrics (Power-Based Devices):
Device | Flash Programming |
NXP MPC5674F | 350 KB/s |
NXP MPC5748G | 282 KB/s |
NXP MPC5777M | 333 KB/s |
ST SPC58EC80 | 319 KB/s |
ST SPC58NE84 | 267 KB/s |
The exceptionally high performance of the CYCLONE FX programmer translates to fast programming cycle time and cost savings during production.