68HC12 and HCS12 development tools

For more details of HC12 and HCS12 products

Freescale are in the process of converting the 68HC12 range to use the newer technology HCS12 (faster and with a lower minimum voltage) also known as Star 12 or MC9S12 found on the chips such as the MC9S12DP256 as well as the S12X

BDM Cables

P&E's parallel  Multilink12 provides access to the Background Debug Mode (BDM) on all the 68HC(S)12 family microprocessor. It acts as the hardware interface between a PCs parallel port and a standard 6 pin background debug header on the target system.

The USB Multilink cable will support and automatically adjust to the higher clock frequencies and lower voltages of the extended 68HC(S)12 family.  The USB Multilink cable will work with all the current HC12 chipsand has a high download speed. The USB Multilink will also work with the HCS08 microcontroller.

Cyclone Pro Interface

This box will connect a PC via Ethernet, USB or Serial ports to an HC08, HCS08, HCR08, HC12, HCS12 or HCS12X.  It can be used as a Debugger or as a Flash programmer under manual or automatic control.  It can even be disconnected from the PC and used as a standalone Flash programmer.  Multiple Cyclones can be driven by a single PC for production environments and their memory can be extended to 128MBytes where very large programs or a lot of them need to be held.  If you are developing applications for any ( or indeed all ) of these Freescale devices it is the only CPU specific hardware development tool you will ever need to buy
For more details of the Cyclone Pro

Assembler 

A simple command line assembler adequate for many small applications ( no linker but the source file can have multiple includes).  It provides macros and conditional assembly.

Integrated Development Environment 

WinIDE is a windows package that includes a configurable text editor and provides the ability to launch a range of other programs from within its centralised operation.  Includes the Assembler.

In Circuit Debugger

A windows package that via the cable provides all the services of a debugger providing as it does access to the contents of variables and registers along with control of the CPU's execution via Breakpoints and Run commands.

Register Explorer

When you display the contents of one of the micros standard registers with the Reg Explorer it shows not just the contents but their Freescale Mnemonic and a brief text description of that state.  When setting values you can choose between valid options for each field and sub field.

Flash Programmer

Using the BDM cable to interface between a PC and a target processor this windows software package will program either on chip or external flash memory or on chip EEPROM.
To see which Flash devices are supported follow this link . 

Unit programs

A set of C library calls that provide an API for using the BDM interface.  Ideal for those who need to write their own PC based test or diagnostics programs.  The standard version includes a license for 5 units.  The distribution version provides unlimited production of applications.

Packages

The programs above are available in a number of packages containing  Cable, winIDE, Assembler, Editor, ICD,  RegExplorer and Flash Programmer.