topic Problems debugging with J-Link and IAR EWARM with K20 in Kinetis Microcontrollers

Problems debugging with J-Link and IAR EWARM with K20

tomtalkington — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 04:56:18 GMT

I am doing development with IAR EWARM, Segger JLink and an MK20. Was building up my environment for the new board. Libraries for MFS, Shell etc. I am now experiencing debugging issues. After programming has finished and execution begins, the LED on the JLINK flashes red (and green), execution is slow and it never makes it out of the start up code. If I load another project I don't have this issue. Has anyone seen this before and know what it might be. It has me stumped.

Regards,

Tom

Re: Problems debugging with J-Link and IAR EWARM with K20

jeremyzhou — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 01:59:49 GMT

Hi Tom,

First of all, I guess the root of issue is from the project , not the hardware design.

So I'd like to suggest that you can find out the line of code that the project stuck in through the debugging.

I think it can help you out the issue by this approach.
Have a great day,
Ping

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Re: Problems debugging with J-Link and IAR EWARM with K20

tomtalkington — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 23:01:49 GMT

I unchecked the 'run to main' in the debugger settings and single stepped through startup. The problem turned out to be in the IAR startup code. In spite of the IAR settings all indicating that the MK20 does not have an FPU, the startup code was always initializing and enabling it which resulted in an unhandled exception. The problem appears to be in IAR's court now. I reported it but have not heard back yet.