This is the second video of four KDS v3.0.0 videos. The videos shall guide you through installation and using the Kinetis SDK with a FRDM board.   Overview: Introduction to OpenSDA firmware Available firmware applications Putting board iinto bootloader mode Updating firmware Checking the device drivers Updating the bootloader   List of all four videos: Kinetis Design Studio Videos, Part 1: Installation of KDS and Kinetis SDK Kinetis Design Studio Videos, Part 2: Installation of OpenSDA Firmware on Freedom Board Kinetis Design Studio Videos, Part 3: Debugging with Kinetis Design Studio Kinetis Design Studio Videos, Part 4: Using Processor Expert in KDS

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.

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 🙂

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.

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

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

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.

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/

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.

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

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 🙂

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

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

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).

This document provides the steps required to successfully build a CodeWarrior 10.6 BeeKit generated project for Kinetis KW2x wireless platform, using the Kinetis Design Studio (KDS), version 2.0.0

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.

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!

Hello community!   Attached is a document that introduces the usage of Component Development Environment (CDE) by creating a software component that will use the Kinetis Software Development Kit (KSDK) drivers to control a 16x2 LCD.   The code provided on the below document will be used as starting point for the creation of the component:   Driving 16x2 LCD using KSDK drivers: https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-329190     Contents: 1. Glossary   2. Overview and concepts   2.1 Processor Expert Software   2.1.1 Embedded Components   3. Creating a new embedded component   3.1 Adding properties   3.2 Adding a method   3.3 Adding inherited components   4. Testing component.   Appendix A - References       I hope you can benefit from this post, if you have questions please let me know.   Best Regards! Carlos Mendoza