Product Release Announcement Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors S32 Design Studio for Power v1.2, Update 1 1            What is new? The S32 Software Development Kit (S32 SDK v0.8.0 EAR) which is an extensive suite of peripheral drivers, RTOS, stacks and middleware designed to simplify and accelerate application development on NXP Power MPC5748G and MPC5746C microcontrollers. Release notes are available here: http://www.nxp.com/docs/en/release-note/C55_SDK_EAR_0.8.0-RN.pdf  Installation instructions The update is available for online (Eclipse Updater) or offline (direct download link) installation.   online installation: go to menu "Help" -> "Install New Software..." dialog select predefined NXP S32 Design Studio update repository http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/updates/Eclipse/S32DS_POWER_1_2/com.freescale.s32power.updatesite  select all available items and click "Next" button offline installation: go to S32 Design Studio product page -> Downloads section or use the direct download link to download the "S32 Design Studio for Power v1.2 - Update 1" file.   Start S32DS and go to "Help" -> "Install New Software..." Add a new "Archive" repository and browse to select the downloaded Update 1 archive file: Select all available items and click "Next" button.

      Product Release Announcement Automotive Microcontrollers and Processors S32 Design Studio for Power Architecture 2017.R1 Update 4          What is new? Radar SDK RTM 1.0.0. This is a cumulative update - it includes all of the content of previous updates (Update 1, Update 2, Update 3). Installation instructions The update is available for online (via S32DS Eclipse Updater) or offline installation (direct download link) online installation:  go to menu "Help" -> "Install New Software..." dialog  select predefined update site "S32DesignStudio - http://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/updates/Eclipse/S32DS_POWER_2017.R1/updatesite" select all available items and click "Next" button   offline installation:   go to S32 Design Studio for ARM product page -> Downloads section or use  direct link to download the update archive zip file  Start S32DS and go to "Help" -> "Install New Software..." Add a new "Archive" repository and browse to select the downloaded update archive zip file you downloaded in the previous step Select all available items and click "Next" button.   This will start the update installation process.

The attached file is an example project based on KEA128 for LED flashing by toggle GPIO signals. It was developed   on S32 Design Studio for ARM 1.0.

On some versions of Windows 10, there is an issue which could impact your ability to open documents from the Getting Started page in S32 Design Studio. While we have resolved this issue in some of the newer releases, not all editions of S32 Design Studio have been updated since this issue was discovered. Also, you may required to use an older release. The problem occurs when a document linked within the Getting Started window of S32 Design Studio. The S32 Design Studio is configured to use the Windows default web browser to open the files. For some Windows 10 installations, Microsoft Edge is the default browser and it is unable to correctly open the requested file. The typical error message is as shown below: To resolve the issue, it is necessary to change the default browser within your Windows preferences. Here are some steps to do that: 1) Click on 'Settings' from the Windows Start Menu 2) Type 'browser' in the search bar, then select 'Choose a default web browser' 3) Click on the currently selected Web browser to bring up the selection menu and select 'Internet Explorer' or 'Google Chrome' 4) Relaunch S32 Design Studio and try again to open the document from the link in Getting Started page.

  In some cases FreeRTOS heap can consume huge portion of RAM memory - especially on small devices like S32K312 and for example DTCM memory is unused. FreeRTOS allows user defined heap which can be moved in any section in RAM.  First step - make sure, that in FreeRTOS config is application allocated heap is disabled:   Second step - open linker script file and create new section which points into DTCM memory:     Third step - define ucHeap variable with section attribute:     We are done - FreeRTOS Heap is moved into DTCM memory:    In case, that DTCM memory is used - typically there can be Interrupt Vector Table, stack and so on, you can skip creating new section in linker script file and simply add *(my_head) at the end of existing section mapped into dtcm:    FreeRTOS heap will be placet at the end of used DTCM memory:     

In order to improve user experience with S32 Design Studio, in this article you can find some tips and tricks.   Use-Case #1: S32 Design Studio takes to much time to perform some of UI update operations Workaround: Manually update the Eclipse configuration parameters in the s32ds.ini file Use-Case #2: S32 Design Studio takes a lot of time to open waiting for updates checking to finish Solution: Update your environment to use at least Update12 or newer or disable the checking at startup Use-Case #3: Control of package dependencies between RTD and S32DS during install/update flow Solution: Transition to Package Manager as the main/single delivery solution for SW and Tools installation. The concept of “Bundles & Use Cases” guarantee interoperability and come with customer support.