topic Re: Can KEIL work with IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe? in Kinetis Microcontrollers

Can KEIL work with IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe?

BasePointer — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:21:23 GMT

Hi,

I want to order tower K60 from IAR. They will provide an IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe.

At the same time, I would like to evaluate KEIL. Can I use same debugger from IAR for also KEIL?

Thanks.

Re: Can KEIL work with IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe?

mjbcswitzerland — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 16:25:07 GMT

Keil uVision4 supports the J-Link / J-Trace from Segger. The IAR J-Link Lite is a low speed J-Link from Segger with IAR branding (but fast enough for most work).

Keil uVision4 (lastest version) also supports the inbuilt OSJTAG interface (as do all IDEs with Kinetis support) so will work without any external debugger.

Regards

Mark

Re: Can KEIL work with IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe?

BasePointer — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:54:58 GMT

Do you know that Keil also supports IAR J-Link Lite?

Re: Can KEIL work with IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe?

lukas — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:35:53 GMT

it doesnt support IAR J-link - when you try to download program - it detect the IAR tool, give back negative message and doest continue with the download

Re: Can KEIL work with IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe?

BasePointer — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 04:08:37 GMT

Thanks Lukas for this feedback.

Re: Can KEIL work with IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe?

mjbcswitzerland — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 19:00:54 GMT

Hi Lukas

Interesting. This sounds as though uVision is actively rejecting the J-Link with IAR branding since other programs don't seem to care whether it is a high speed J-Link, low speed J-Link or an IAR packaged one of these.

Regards

Mark

P.S. I'll have a try with an old IAR J-Link Lite once I get back from holiday....

Re: Can KEIL work with IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe?

DistiCasMgr — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 19:26:44 GMT

Hi,

I asked ARM about this today and was told the following:-

If the J-Link in question is branded as Segger it will work, if it is branded as IAR, then the embedded IAR firmware stops it from working with Keil MDK. (So MDK is capable of using it but IAR won’t let it happen...).

Hope that clarifies.

Damian