2 starting questions on S12 boards

[mister_l]

Hi,

I recently started learning microcontroller development. I had the change to obtain 2 S12 evaluation

boards. I succeeded in doing some 1st examples with CodeWarrior debugger. Though I have 2 starting

questions:

1) the book I am working with (M. Cady) is talking about a D-Bug12 monitor residing on S12. But it

    looks like this SW isn't installed. Am I correct that for some eval boards I need to install it myself?

    I guess chips for mass production won't have D-Bug12 installed neither?

2) what exactly does the abbreviation "POD" stand for? It seems to be a USB2BDM converter

    between PC host and eval board.

[kef2 · Accepted solution]

Hi

1) yes.yes,

2) right

Those days when there was no USB2BDM, but only some quite expensive LPT2BDM, it probably wasn't too chip to have extra MCU on evaluation board to serve as BDM adapter. So there was D-Bug12. Today it doesn't make a lot of sense to bother with Dbug-12. DEMO boards like this one have USB2BDM on board

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=DEMO9S12XEP100