topic Re: External Flash tool for Kinetis MCUs in Kinetis Microcontrollers

External Flash tool for Kinetis MCUs

darnaiadam — Tue, 20 Sep 2016 10:55:08 GMT

Hi,

I'm interested about flash my freedom board with an external tool, instead of internal Eclipse Flash programmer. Is there any way to do it? (OS is Linux Ubuntu)

Re: External Flash tool for Kinetis MCUs

jeremyzhou — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 02:15:23 GMT

Hi Darnai Adam,

To be honest, I'm not very clear the meaning of the internal Eclipse Flash programmer you mentioned above.

So can you explain it again? And do you want some debug tools?
Have a great day,
Ping

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Re: External Flash tool for Kinetis MCUs

bcamp — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:43:32 GMT

I suspect that:

Eclipse = KDS supplied / bundled programmer.

External = stand alone programmer that will load the same files without KDS being installed.

Bob

Re: External Flash tool for Kinetis MCUs

darnaiadam — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 13:58:59 GMT

Yes, thats what I meant. I'd like to use a programmer that communicates with GDB server and than flash my application through the USB connection to the Processor, without any IDE, for example KDS. I read that there are solutions via terminal, but I prefer an application that provide a GUI for the user.

Re: External Flash tool for Kinetis MCUs

jeremyzhou — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 07:01:06 GMT

Hi Darnai Adam，

I think the JLink tool is good choice.

And you can learn the more information about the Eclipse with GDB through the thread below.

https://mcuoneclipse.com/2015/03/25/command-line-programming-and-debugging-with-gdb/

Have a great day,
Ping

Re: External Flash tool for Kinetis MCUs

darnaiadam — Thu, 22 Sep 2016 12:34:24 GMT

Thank you very much!