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Re: ICE only for download


On Monday, 24. June 2002 14:05, Kjell Svensson wrote:
> There is of course the "serial monitor" options, either the ARM Angel or
> the GDB-stub (e.g RedBoot), but I suppose You are looking for something
> loading an "empty" ARM chip with(?)
>
> There are a number of quite cheap JTAG "wigglers" commercially
> available, which typically utilise the parallell-port of the PC to drive
> the JTAG signals. MacGraigor sells a popular device named "Wiggler", but
> there are others.
>
> Since these wigglers essentially contain only a few drivers/buffers in
> order to convert/isolate the electrical levels of the PC from the levels
> of the target, the prices asked for a commercial wiggler might anyway
> seem absurd :-(   I've seen a few "build-it-yourself" instruction on
> various places on the internet. If You're interested in these and cannot
> find them Yourself, send me an email and I'll see if I can find it again.
>
> By the way; parallell port wigglers are typically poorly supported by
> Linux hosts which generally defaults to ethernet/TCP/IP connections. I'm
> unsure if its possible to get a wiggler working together with gdb in
> Linux, but I know there is some Linux app around capable of downloading
> images into an ARM.

I think the wiggler is what I'm searching for. Does anybody have experience 
with using it?
I have read that a version of gdb from www.ocdemon.com supports it, but only 
under Windows not under Linux.

Roland

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