topic KDS debugging doesn't terminate existing connection automatically when new session starts in Kinetis Design Studio

KDS debugging doesn't terminate existing connection automatically when new session starts

petershih — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:31:49 GMT

I have a question regarding KDS IDE. We have been using CW 10.6 to develop many application already. When debugging at CW, if a new source code is compiled and ready to be downloaded to the target, the CW will shows a warning message and able to automatically terminate the existing connection and start the new one. When I switch to KDS for debugging, it always give me "No Device Available" error. I have to "Abort" twice, switch to "Debug" perspective to terminate the existing connection.

Do I have any way to set it automatically terminate the existing connection and start the new connection right away? Thanks your help!

Peter Shih

Re: KDS debugging doesn't terminate existing connection automatically when new session starts

BlackNight — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 14:40:59 GMT

Hi Peter,

The bad news first: the P&E launch configuration in Eclipse does not support that functionality.

In CodeWarrior, this is handled by the custom debugger engine, and CodeWarrior is not using GDB.

KDS is using GDB, and here it is up to the launch configuration plugin: it could check if there is already a session running.

This actually is the case for the J-Link connection:

But so far P&E does not support such a thing yet. My hope is that an upcoming release could have this implemented too.

I hope this helps,

Erich

Re: KDS debugging doesn't terminate existing connection automatically when new session starts

petershih — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 17:56:29 GMT

Thank you very much!

Peter