[sdiy] Odp: Re: ARM Dev Boards Possibly Lunatic Idea

[Vladimir Pantelic]

ok, so make this the "show your programming probe" week:

http://vp7.de/swd_probe.jpg

this one is only for field upgrades, normally I have a pogo jig since I also 
test other parts of the partly populated PCB.


On 13.05.2017 08:16, Roman wrote:
> This is exactly how I program all my PICs. My "programming pen" isn't so nice,
> it doesn't even look like a pen. Actually it's so ugly that I'm embarassed to
> show any picture. Done it probably 10 years ago with the intention to make
> proper one in spare time next week. Well, that never happened.
>
> By the way that website is full of good stuff! Go and see it all if there's
> anybody except me who haven't seen it already. That guy, Mike Harrison, is a genius!
>
> Roman
>
> Dnia 12 maja 2017 23:37 Richie Burnett <rburnett at richieburnett.co.uk> napisał(a):
>
>     I've had success with using this type of improvised "programming pen" for
>     in-circuit microcontroller programming before.
>
>     http://www.electricstuff.co.uk/penprobe.html
>
>     -Richie,
>
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: Scott Gravenhorst
>     Sent: Friday, May 12, 2017 10:22 PM
>     To: synth-diy at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy at synth-diy.org>
>     Subject: Re: [sdiy] ARM Dev Boards Possibly Lunatic Idea
>
>
>     No idea, other than the FTDI port, I don't see a connection that hooks to
>     the appropriate pins on
>     the ARM to do (for example) parallel programming of the Flash - there are no
>     connections to the
>     required pins for that.  JTAG pins aren't connected.  From what I see (and I
>     could be "blind"), the
>     only way they could have done it is via FTDI or possibly using a socket that
>     accepts the SMD part,
>     program it first and then solder it, but that seems a bit labor intensive to
>     me.  The datasheet
>     lays out (I believe) 4 methods of programming the Flash, and the schematic
>     didn't seem to support
>     any except for FTDI.  Note though that the FTDI port was just .1" spaces
>     holes into which pins
>     could be soldered, but the board comes with nothing soldered there.  I
>     suppose it would be easy
>     enough to deal with that using some clip-thingies.
>
>     And that's why I'm asking this question here.
>
>
>     MTG <grant at musictechnologiesgroup.com> wrote:
>
>         How did the developer do it?  There must be some kind of ISP connection
>         on the board.
>
>         On 5/12/2017 12:29 PM, Scott Gravenhorst wrote:
>
>
>             Here's a possibly lunatic idea I've been mulling for awhile.
>
>             I was thinking that the Tsunami Super WAV Trigger Board has essentially
>             everything I'd
>             want on a dev board, including the Microchip (Atmel) ATSAMS70N20 ARM
>             (and
>             again, the
>             only reason I'm interested in that particular chip is that the speed is
>             almost 40%
>             higher than the STmicro ones).
>
>             What I first wondered is whether it would be possible to completely
>             replace the program
>             in it.  There is a firmware update function, but I doubt if that
>             _completely_ erases and
>             replaces the code.  If I'm not mistaken (from looking at the schemo and
>             reading the
>             datasheet) I might be able to program the board through the FTDI port on
>             the board.
>             However, I'm not sure, so maybe someone here has advice.  Anyway, my
>             whole idea was to
>             buy a second WAV trigger and blow out the WAV trigger program and
>             replace
>             it with my own
>             designs - and use it as a dev board.  It's a bit more expensive than the
>             other
>             selections we've discussed, but failing finding a dev board for
>             ATSAMS70N20, if that
>             could actually work, I wouldn't mind spending the money.  The
>             development
>             platform for
>             the Microchip/Atmel parts is Atmel Studio, which itself is free, but I
>             don't know if as
>             you use it you find that it needs bits and pieces that cost money - can
>             anyone say if
>             that is true or not?
>
>             So is this total lunacy?
>
>             -- ScottG
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