topic Re: Debugger not showing external SRAM contents in Kinetis Microcontrollers

Debugger not showing external SRAM contents

renjithvamanan — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:59:30 GMT

Hi All

We are using K60F128M CPU with external SRAM interfaced at address 0x60000000.

SRAM is working properly and I am able to store and retrieve values from the program.

But when trying to see the values loaded on SRAM in the memory view of debugger, it just shows "?????".

Then, I modified the memory configuration file(.mem) as below to match our setup.

After that when I try to start debugging its getting timed out saying "Debugger has lost connection to the target".

Any idea about how to solve this ?

// All reserved ranges read back 0xBABA...

reservedchar 0xBA

usederivative "MK60F15"

// Memory Map:

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------

range 0x00000000 0x000FFFFF 4 ReadWrite // 1024KB Code Flash

reserved 0x00100000 0x13FFFFFF

range 0x14000000 0x14003FFF 4 ReadWrite // 16KB Programming accelleration RAM

reserved 0x14004000 0x1FFEFFFF

range 0x1FFF0000 0x1FFFFFFF 4 ReadWrite // 64KB On chip SRAM (TCML)

range 0x20000000 0x2000FFFF 4 ReadWrite // 64KB On chip SRAM (TCMU)

reserved 0x20010000 0x21FFFFFF

range 0x22000000 0x221FFFFF 4 ReadWrite // Aliased to TCMU SRAM bitband

reserved 0x22200000 0x3FFFFFFF

range 0x60000000 0x6001FFFF 4 ReadWrite // Flexbus for external memory

reserved 0x60020000 0xDFFFFFFF // Flexbus for external memory

reserved 0xE0100000 0xFFFFFFFF

Re: Debugger not showing external SRAM contents

Jorge_Gonzalez — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 01:52:00 GMT

Hello Renjith:

I guess this is because the Flex Bus is not configured yet when launching the debug session, so when the debugger attempts to read those addresses, it crashes.

In case this is the problem I attached a script which contains Flex Bus initialization code. Go to Run -> Debug Configurations -> (Select your connection) -> Edit -> Edit (again), and in the "Initialization" tab point to this script file. Check below:

With this the debugger should be able to 'see' the external memory without hanging.

Regards!,

Jorge Gonzalez

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Re: Debugger not showing external SRAM contents

renjithvamanan — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 09:59:05 GMT

Hi Jorge

Thanks for this input.

Flex Bus was not initialized in the tcl file as you guessed. But even after using your tcl file, debugger connection is losing same as before.

But when I tried my same .mem configuration file in another PC and HW board, it worked even without Flex Bus initialization in tcl file.

It worked on the first run as expected and I could view the contents of Ext.SRAM variables.

Does this hints help some how ? What could be the reason that it is not working in my debug setup?

Thanks,

Renjith

Re: Debugger not showing external SRAM contents

Hui_Ma — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:27:10 GMT

Hi,

It need to modify mem file to enable Flexbus related access memory range, such as below setting:

range

0x60000000 0x6FFFFFFF 4 ReadWrite

// Flexbus for external memory

reserved 0x70000000 0xDFFFFFFF

After that, it could see related memory contents with CodeWarrior software.

Wish it helps.
best regards
Ma Hui

Re: Debugger not showing external SRAM contents

renjithvamanan — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 09:40:30 GMT

Hi Hui

As I mentioned in my original question I have done the necessary modifications to the .mem file. After that .mem file change only my debugger seems to be crashing and connection loss to it happens.

Regards

Renjith

Re: Debugger not showing external SRAM contents

Hui_Ma — Thu, 17 Jul 2014 02:30:10 GMT

Hi,

If you are using CodeWarrior provided Flexbus example code? The example code located at C:\Freescale\CW MCU v10.6\MCU\CodeWarrior_Examples\Kinetis_Examples\k40\flexbus folder.

Wish it helps.
best regards
Ma Hui

Re: Debugger not showing external SRAM contents

renjithvamanan — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 09:09:23 GMT

My PC was running XP and it was very slow while debugging. So I had to format and re-install the PC with Windows 7.

Now when I setup everything afresh, Ext.SRAM watch works as expected in my debug setup also.

Still the reason why it was not working is unknown, but its OK for the time being.

Thanks,

Renjith