Hi
Kindly excuse my ignorance. am a newbie to the ColdFire family.. Something that i am concerned about that i need a clarification on before i can decide to procure a MCF5282 Evaluation board....
My situation is this :
I'm looking at procuring a ColdFire Evaluation Board for MCF5282. I intended to use Eclipse IDE with the GNU toolchain from codesourcery.com
I therefore now have options for a compiler, Simulator and a Debugger.
Now, for example i want to test a simple UART routine or some other serial Communication routine, how will i load the "hex" file generated by my compiler into the target device ??
If i were working on ARM, i would have simply used a utility called Flash Magic, which is a flash programming utility, available for free. The only hardware interface this requires is a simple serial cable.
Can i similarly write a routine, & load my hex onto the memory of my ColdFire controller, using a simple, freely available software, without having to purchase a BDM/programmer cable from PE-Micro or anyone else??
Hope this is clear.
regards
techie.