A service pack has been published in the download section of Kinetis Design Studio on http://www.freescale.com/kds which adds bare metal (no Processor Expert, no Kinetis SDK) support for the following Kinetis M devices:   The update is available for KDS v3.0.0 for Linux, Mac and Window:   The download is available for each of the host operating systems supported by KDS: The downloaded archive (zip file) contains the release notes and the Eclipse update which gets installed into KDS using the menu Help > Install New software and then using the zip file inside the archive (unpack the archive first).

Light Intensity in KDS   Description:   A project made in KDS using the FRDM-MKL46Z256VLL4 board's LCD screen to display light intensity. The LCD will display light intensity taken from the light sensor.

Based on Erich's HID Mouse tutorial, this is a simple HID compliant Air Mouse, with the pointer being controlled using the onboard accelerometer.     A full Tutorial on how to make this project is available inside the Zip under "Simple Air Mouse on a FRDM KL25Z.pdf". It aims to fully explain the process of building the project in KDS, how to set up the board for HID interaction and how to setup the accelerometer.   Thanks go to Erich Styger for the original tutorial and insight, along with his incredibly handy component library.   If i've been confusing or have forgotten to note something (as I no doubt will have), please don't be afraid to message in to let me know and i'll update the relevant files.

Overview: - this plugin provides KSDK documents at hand - web based documents are opened in KDS - PDF based documents are opened in your PDF viewer Installation: 1) Be sure that you closed KDS 3.0.0 ! 2) Copy KSDKDocPlugin_1.0.0.alpha.jar to your KDS plugins folder, ex.: c:\Freescale\KDS_3.0.0\eclipse\plugins\ 3) Run KDS 3.0.0 4) Now you can see KSDK 1.3.0 Documents menu next to the Run menu   Known issues: - KSDK must me installed at c:\Freescale\KSDK_1.3.0 (need to do path configuration for documents)     I hope that you enjoy this plugin. All comments are welcome!   Michal

Greetings, By default the Java heap memory size in Kinetis Design Studio V3.0.0 (and earlier version) is set to 512 MBytes. Depending on Eclipse usage (number of open projects, views open) that might not be enough, causing Eclipse to react slowly. The solution is to increase the available memory for Java. The attached technical note describes the problem and how to increase the heap size.   Erich

NXP Touch software (http://www.nxp.com/products/microcontrollers-and-processors/arm-processors/kinetis-cortex-m/kinetis-symbols-footprints-and-models/freescale-touch-software:FREESCALE-TOUCH-SOFTWARE ) is designed to speed development of your touch applications and is ideal for use with Kinetis MCUs. Because it is available as both a binary library and also in source code, many customers like using it.   Recently I received several cases from customers that some of our customers can’t run this package successfully. So I start to write this document of how to use this package to make this package “run” on your board!

In case you have created a project without Processor Expert option enabled at project creation time, it might be the easiest way just to create a new project with Processor Expert enabled, and then move things over. In case this approach is not feasible, then the following document outlines the steps to concert such a project into a Processor Expert project: Adding PEx to KDS bareboard project (with SDK) | Freescale Community   Happy Converting 🙂

The following link has the information how to enable semihosting inside Kinetis Design Studio:   Semihosting with Kinetis Design Studio | MCU on Eclipse

NXP Freedom K22F is an ultra-low-cost development platform for Kinetis K22 MCUs. This board is already widely used among NXP customers. http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=FRDM-K22F   The FRDM-K22F platform features OpenSDAv2.1, which is a bit different as OpenSDAv2 on FRDM-K64F board.  The NXP open source hardware embedded serial and debug adapter running an open source bootloader. This circuit offers several options for serial communication, flash programming, and run-control debugging. User who works with KDS3.0 can choose Segger J-Link OpenSDA, P&E OpenSDA interface, or Mbed interface.  For each of the option, user need update debugger firmware first.  I will introduce each of them one by one.   All the related driver and firmware will be enclosed in this article as attachment.   Enjoy KDS + FRDM-K22F debugging. 🙂

'Bare' (no PEx, no SDK) projects created with KDS V1.0.1 beta have the issue that the watchdog is not disabled (see KDS V1.0.1beta release notes). This document explains how to disable the watchdog for the FRDM-KL25Z (steps are similar to other boards).   1. Add Derivative Header file Add the derivative header file to your project. The header files are located in C:\Freescale\KDS_1.0.1\eclipse\ProcessorExpert\lib\Kinetis\iofiles Copy the matching header into the Startup_Code folder:   2. Disable Watchdog Open startup.c and locate the function __init_hardware(). Include the derivative header file and the code to disable the watchdog:   This will disable the watchdog during startup. The above project is attached as a reference.   Code for the K64F #define STARTUP_WDOG_STCTRLH_VALUE                     0x01D2U   /* WDOG_STCTRLH value */ #define STARTUP_WDOG_KEY_1                             0xC520U   /* Watchdog unlock key 1 */ #define STARTUP_WDOG_KEY_2                             0xD928U   /* Watchdog unlock key 2 */   void __attribute__ ((weak)) __init_hardware(void) {   /* Disable the WDOG module */   WDOG_UNLOCK = (uint16_t)STARTUP_WDOG_KEY_1; /* Key 1 */   WDOG_UNLOCK = (uint16_t)STARTUP_WDOG_KEY_2; /* Key 2 */   WDOG_STCTRLH = (uint16_t)STARTUP_WDOG_STCTRLH_VALUE; /* Disable WDOG */ }

Blinking the LED in KDS   Description:   This is a small project made in KDS on a FRDM-MK64FN1M0VLL12 board. The blue LED toggles off and on every second, controlled by a timed interrupt.

This is a list of tutorials about using the Kinetis SDK with either Kinetis Design Studio or Eclipse Kepler and the GNU ARM build tools. They use the FRDM-K64F board, but any other board/microcontroller supported by the Kinetis SDK can be used.   Project creation and Startup code:  Tutorial: DIY Kinetis SDK Project with Eclipse – Startup | MCU on Eclipse Board configuration: Tutorial: DIY Kinetis SDK Project with Eclipse – Board Configuration | MCU on Eclipse

Temperature in KDS   Description:   A project made in KDS using the FRDM-MKL46Z256VLL4 board's LCD screen to display temperature. The LCD will display temperature data taken from the magnetometer in degrees Celsius. Data is read every 500ms as this lowers flickering when between temperatures.   Updates:   After initially submitting this project after having it working, I tried to load it up and found out the temperature not displaying correctly. After much trial and error I managed to find out that not initializing the magnetometer was causing the issues, even though it was not the previous day! Have edited the project to add in the initialization just in case it causes anyone else errors.

KDS does not come with a register level detail view included, only the ARM core non-memory mapped registers are displayed in the Registers view. There is an open source Eclipse plugin which can be added to KDS which brings register level details: For this view, install the EmbSys Eclipse plugin, and apply a patch (zip file) to get all the Freescale register detail information in SVD (XML) files. The installation and usage of the plugin is described in: http://mcuoneclipse.com/2014/05/29/how-to-add-register-details-view-in-eclipse/   The patch files which fix an issue in the existing plugin (see EmbSys Registers View with CMSIS-SVD dimElementGroup | MCU on Eclipse) and adds extra Freescale SVD files to the installation (see Updated Eclipse EmbSysReg Viewer with extra Freescale SVD Files | MCU on Eclipse).   The patch files are hosted on SourceForge: McuOnEclipse - Browse /Eclipse Plugins/EmbSysReg at SourceForge.net   Happy Registering 🙂

This tutorial describes how to build a project from command-line, using the GCC build tools included in the Kinetis Design Studio (KDS) tool from NXP.  KDS uses open-source components including the Eclipse IDE and GCC build tools.  The Eclipse IDE can be configured to automatically create make files for the project.  After KDS creates these make files, they can be used to build the project from the command-line, without using the KDS IDE.  This tutorial uses an example for the Kinetis KE04Z microcontroller (MCU), using the FRDM-KE04Z development board.  The following software is used in these tutorial steps: Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit Kinetis Design Studio (KDS) v3.2.0 FRDM-KEXX Driver Library Package v1.3