topic What's the best BDM for a Coldfire? in ColdFire/68K Microcontrollers and Processors

What's the best BDM for a Coldfire?

DiBosco — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:28:16 GMT

Hi folks,

I'm about to to start my first Coldfire project by the looks of it and need to choose a BDM interface. I always found in the past many problems with P&E's BDM inteface for HCS12 and it was very, very slow (compared to JTAG on ARMs). Is it the same on Coldfire? Is the Albatron worth the money for extra speed? Are there other recommended BDM interfaces?

I would happily pay extra for a good interface if it gave me:

1. Comparable speeds to ARM JTAG

2. Was rock solid and didn't lose communication regularly (like Atmel's oneWIRE interface does) .

Very grateful for advice and comment.s

Rob

Re: What's the best BDM for a Coldfire?

sirlenzelot — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:50:07 GMT

Hi Rob.

We are using the Abatron BDI2000/C with success. There are no problems with the BDM.

Abatron came up with the BDI3000, which is said to be a lit faster.

I also tried the P&E parallel BDI delivered with the MCF5235EVB, which is of course slower, but works without problems.

Dirk

Re: What's the best BDM for a Coldfire?

alex1954 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:02:10 GMT

Can I use BDI3000 for debug and programming MCF52259 ?