ioprog

ST Microelectronics recently announced that the ST-Link debug interfaces on their boards can be reprogrammed as Segger/J-Link interfaces.  Curious, I flashed the firmware on to such a debugger as directed here https://www.segger.com/jlink-st-link.html .

I then wired the debugger to an stm32f030 as shown in the pictures below (the debugger had been snapped off the Nucleo board because the target MCU had been damaged)

The SWD connections are taken from CN4 and joined to the corresponding pins on the STM32F030.  Note the way the 3.3V is taken from the top of the jumper JP1:  The jumper must remain in place to power the debug interface.

Important: The Boot0 pin must be pulled to ground with a resistor or the CPU will boot to ISP mode and you won’t be able to run your test program.

In addition to the SWD connections, the STM32F030’s UART is connected to the TX and RX pins on the debug interface.  This allows an application running on the STM32F030 to send data to the host PC.

All of this was done in Ubuntu Linux using OpenOCD.  The OpenOCD configuration script (tbrd.cfg) is shown below:

# This is for the STM32F030 connected to the ST-Link Nucleo
# programmer that has been reflashed with the J-Link firmware

source [find interface/jlink.cfg]
transport select swd
source [find target/stm32f0x.cfg]
adapter_khz 1000

reset_config srst_nogate

The debug arrangement worked well: programs loaded quickly, registers could be examined and breakpoints set etc.

To run openocd type the following:

sudo openocd -f tbrd.cfg

In a new terminal window, run arm-none-eabi-gdb

The transcript for a simple session is shown below.

GNU gdb (GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors) 7.10.1.20160923-cvs
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>
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and "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "--host=i686-linux-gnu --target=arm-none-eabi".
Type "show configuration" for configuration details.
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(gdb) target remote :3333
Remote debugging using :3333
0x00000000 in ?? ()
(gdb) monitor reset halt
target state: halted
target halted due to debug-request, current mode: Thread 
xPSR: 0xc1000000 pc: 0x080000b4 msp: 0x20001000
(gdb) load main.elf
Loading section .text, size 0x328 lma 0x8000000
Start address 0x8000000, load size 808
Transfer rate: 3 KB/sec, 808 bytes/write.
(gdb) continue 
Continuing.