If you are migrating from CodeWarrior to KDS, then you might notice that CodeWarrior had a 'Add Files...' menu: KDS is using an unmodified Eclipse version, and because the above menu was a CodeWarrior specific extension, this menu is not present in Eclipse. But there are many different other ways in Eclipse how to add existing files to a project in KDS: File Import Menu Drag and Drop Copy and Paste See How to Add Existing Files to Eclipse Projects | MCU on Eclipse   Happy Adding 🙂

This document is a step by step to install KDS.

A new updated plugins is available from P&E with extended device support (see list at the end) for KDS V1.1.1:   NOTE: You need V1.1.1 for this update, as V1.1.0 has an issue with updating the P&E plugins, unless you apply a manual workaround. See the V1.1.0 release notes.   Use the menu Help > Install New software and use the PEmicro update site from the list: Select the updated plugin, and press 'Next' to go through the installation. At the end, you are asked to re-start KDS.     Release Note information: KDS_513_b140905 includes the following features and bug fixes:   (*) Adds device support for the following devices: (*) Add MBED/PEMICRO OpenSDA support for FRDM-K22F and FRDM-K64F boards   Kinetis - K24 Series k24fn256m12   Kinetis - KL17/KL27/KL33/43 Series kl17z32m4 kl17z64m4 kl17z128m4 kl17z256m4 kl27z32m4 kl27z64m4 kl27z128m4 kl27z256m4 kl33z128m4 kl33z256m4 kl43z128m4 kl43z256m4   Kinetis - KMx - Photon3 km14z64am5 km14z128am5 km33z64am5 km33z128am5 km34z128am5   Kinetis - KV4x kv40f64m15 kv40f128m15 kv40f256m15 kv43f64m15 kv43f128m15 kv44f64m15 kv44f128m15 kv45f128m15 kv45f256m15 kv46f128m15 kv46f256m15   Kinetis - K11/K21 - K20 512k/1Mb k11dn512am5 k11dx128am5 k11dx256am5 k21dn512am5 k21dx128am5 k21dx256am5 k21fn1m0am12 k21fx512am12   Kinetis- K02F Series: K02F128M10 K02F64M10   Kinetis- KW Series:   KW01Z128 KW21D256M5 KW21D512M5 KW22D512M5 KW24D512M5   Kinetis- K66/65 Series: K66FX1M0M18 K65FX1M0M18 K66FN2M0M18 K65FN2M0M18   Kinetis - WPR Series alpha WPR1516M2   KDS_506c_b140807 includes the following features and bug fixes:   Plugin Version 1.12.   ENGR00325552 - Includes changes to p2.inf to include both metadata and artifact repositories on the same line. ENGR00325553 - Specify IP issue for Ethernet P&E interfaces (Cyclone MAX, Tracelink) is addressed. Adds support for MBED Bootloader 2.1 on FRDM-K22F and FRDM-K64F boards.       Happy Updating 🙂

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

KDS v3.0 (  New Kinetis Design Studio V3.0.0 available  ) and KSDK v1.2.0 (https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-104887  ) have been released for several days. If user project is expected to use the Kinetis SDK, as same as previous KDS and KSDK version, we must apply the Eclipse Update for Kinetis SDK into this tool using Help -> Install New Software. Then go to ..\KSDK_1.2.0\tools\eclipse_update folder to find the appropriate Eclipse update. Recently, I had several customers query a same question about how to start their own KSDK project. I think we can do it by either using KDS project wizard or basing on a KSDK demo project under KSDK3.0 install folder.  this document focuses on how to start customized KSDK project based on KSDK demo code.

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 🙂

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.

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

USB Keyboard in KDS   Description:   A project made in KDS using the FRDM-KL25Z128M4 board as a USB keyboard input. The LED will flash red while not connected as a USB keyboard, and flash green when it is. The reset button will press the print screen button. The reset button can be configured to press any possible key as long as they are correctly #defined. Use http://www.usb.org/developers/devclass_docs/Hut1_11.pdf as a reference for keys. Strings may also be output, see the commented out H1DK1_SendStr call in main.c for an example.   Sections of code taken from http://mcuoneclipse.com/2013/06/30/using-the-frdm-kl25z-as-usb-keyboard/

In case you are running into this error while trying to uninstall KDS on Windows (I had it with KDS V1.1.0, but it might apply to other versions too):   "Error opening installation log file. Verify that the specified log file location exists and is writeable."   After some googling, some installers (or uninstallers) can cause that error message. It seems that some files/folders are not accessible. In my case I had it with installing KDS, and then wanted to uninstall it as I installed (in error) V1.1.0 (and not the latest V1.1.1). I had not rebooted afterwards. But when I rebooted, the problem does go away.   So if you run into that problem: reboot your machine and try again. It worked for me.   Happy Uninstalling 🙂

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

LCD Timer in KDS   Description:   A project made in KDS using the FRDM-MKL46Z256VLL4 board's LCD screen as a timer. The LCD will display minutes and seconds from 00:00 to 99:59, before resetting to 00:00.   Sections of code taken from an example project found at: https://github.com/ErichStyger/mcuoneclipse/tree/master/Examples/FRDM-KL46Z/FRDM-KL46Z_Demo

Recently, there were some customers asking how to change MCU for a KDS2.x  project in KDS. It’s not difficult but the question is typical. So I wrote an article on this topic.   Attached document sets an example of porting a KSDK2.0 K21F project to K22F.  Step by step. User can use it as a reference to change MCU for other kinetis device.

Accelerometer in KDS   Description:   A project made in KDS using the FRDM-MKL46Z256VLL4 board's LCD screen to display accelerometer data. The LCD will initially display the accelerometer data for the X axis. Pressing SW3 will toggle between displaying other axis. A timer has also been included from my previous project. Pressing the SW1 at any time will reset the timer back to 0.   Sections of code taken from an example project found at: https://github.com/ErichStyger/mcuoneclipse/tree/master/Examples/FRDM-KL46Z/FRDM-KL46Z_Demo

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

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).

Writing to SD Card in KDS   Description:   A project made in KDS using the FRDM-MK64FN1M0VLL12 board to write to SD Card. Every second, the time and the value of the variables x, y and z will be written to an SD Card. They will be written in a log.txt file, which will be created if it does not exist. x, y and z are set to 1, 2, and 3 by default.   Sections of code taken from http://mcuoneclipse.com/2014/05/26/tutorial-data-logger-with-the-frdm-k64f-board/   Issues:   Time will always begin at 17:51:31 after being flashed. This is due to it being set as such at TmDt1_Init.

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.

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!

Greetings, A new release V1.1.1 of KDS is available from the Download tab on http://www.freescale.com/kds V1.1.1 is a full release, and it is recommended to use this new release going forward. V1.1.1 supports Windows (7/8), Linux (32bit binaries for Ubuntu, RHE and CentOS): What's new: Linux RHE and CentOS installation (RPM) Updated KDS User Guide Updated P&E updated site handling to allow support for incremental device support Fixed IP Adddress Setup for P&E Ethernet connection devices (Cyclone MAX, TraceLink) For details, see the V1.1.1 Release Notes.   In addition to the KDS V1.1.1 release, there is an Eclipse update for Processor Expert and Kinetis SDK support. Implemented workaround for HEAP size needs of Newlib-nano GNU library Fixed include path delimiter for Linux hosts Fixed flash configuration field values for several bare project derivatives Updated board configuration templates. Details in the Update1 Release Notes.   Download this .zip file, then install it in Eclipse/KDS using the menu Help > Install New Software (the update will be available on the KDS Eclipse online update site too)   :   Please use KDS V1.1.1 with Eclipse/Processor Expert/SDK Update1 going forward. KDS V1.1.0 projects and settings can be used with V1.1.1.   Best regards, Erich