Hello Sheshnath,
Can you check the reset signal on an oscilloscope? On blank chips, the expected behavior is a saw wave because the MCU keeps resetting as it is loading an invalid address to the stack pointer and program counter. Once flashed, the reset should stop oscillating.
For the SWD connections refer to the section 2.1.5.1 Debug interface of the document KLQRUG.
Regards,
Gerardo