Power PC  55xx/56xx (NEXUS)  Development Tools

Cyclone Max Interface

This box will connect a PC via Ethernet, USB or Serial port to a PPC 5xx,  8xx, 55xx/56xx (Nexus),  ColdFire V2,3,4 or a MAC71xx,72xx (ARM).  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

JTAG Cables

P&E's PowerPC Nexus Interfaces  provide access to the JTAG interface on the  PPC 55xx/56xx range of microprocessors. They acts as the hardware interface between an IBM PC parallel or USB ports and a 14 pin JTAG debug header on the target system.  The parallel one operates at 3.3v and the USB over a voltage range of 1.8-5v.

Flash Programmer

Using the JTAG 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 . 

In Circuit Debugger

In-circuit debugger for PowerPC 55xx/56xx series devices. This Windows debugger supports reading/writing registers, memory and variables, loading code, and controlling processor execution with links to both assembly language and high-level languages (such as C). The package includes the Flash programmer package. The debugger supports BookE cores, VLE cores, and multiple cores (such as on the MPC551X devices). It uses the ELF/DWARF(2.0) debug file object format, which is output by many compilers, including Codewarrior and GCC compilers.  The In Circuit Debugger is packaged with the Flash programmer and is the recommended Debugging Environment for the Freescale CodeWarrior compiler.

Package-NEXUS

This package includes all the interface hardware and software needed to start program development for the Nexus range....... A JTAG Cable +

Integrated Development Environment 

 The WinIDE Integrated Development Environment supports the PowerPC Nexus architecture. This is the primary editing environment for the software kit. It is also the launch pad for other P&E applications such as the in-circuit debugger, in-circuit flash programmer, and GCC C-compiler. Many of the settings for these applications, especially the GCC compiler, are controlled from within the WinIDE environment.

PowerPC EABI GCC C-Compiler

This is a version of the GNU/GCC PowerPC compiler toolset compiled by P&E to operate directly under the Windows environment without requiring the installation of a Unix shell. The compiler is integrated into WinIDE and allows for one-touch compilation of a C-level project. The following are supported e200z1,3,6 variants 5516, 5533, 5534, 5554, 5561, 5565, 5566, 5567, (VLE instructions at Assembler level only). This compiler produces both the Elf/Dwarf 2.0 and S19 output formats. The Elf/Dwarf format is loadable by P&E’s in-circuit debugger and the S19 is loadable by P&E’s in-circuit flash programmer. 

In Circuit Debugger      and     Flash Programmer     see above descriptions

Take a look at our Quick Start Guide to see how easy it is to get a project underway!

Package-NEXUS includes the following GNU software components....GCC version 2.95.3,    Binutils version 2.10  and   Newlib version 1.9.0

P&E provides technical support for one year for the WinIDE environment, debugger, and flash programmer. P&E does not directly provide technical support for using the GNU compiler but has integrated the compiler very well into its toolchain. The WinIDE environment allows very good control of the input options and files to the GNU compiler. P&E's debugger and flash programmer support debug and flash programming of the code produced by the GNU compiler.