Power PC  5xx & 8xx development tools

For more details of this new product  Cyclone Max

BDM Cables

P&E units provides access to the Background Debug Mode (BDM) on the basic PPC 5xx and 8xx microprocessor. We have  both parallel and USB 2 cables that act as the hardware interface between an IBM PC and a 10 pin background debug header on the target system. All cables, the Cyclone Max & the Lightning card are supported by P&E's software.  If you are using P&E cables with other manufacturers debuggers/compilers then consult them for support status. 

CablePPC uses the PCs parallel port (DB25 female connector) and will operate with  W95,W98,W2K,NT,ME and XP operating systems.  For 3-3.6V		USB Multilink interfaces to USB 2 ports on W98, W2K, ME and XP PCs. It  is significantly faster than the CablePPC. It draws power from USB interface. The cable will handle target voltages of 1.8V-5.25V
Download Speed..............17 KBytes/sec		Download Speed............44 KBytes/sec

JTAG Cables

P&E supplies support for the PPC 55xx/56xx Nexus range of CPUs which have a JTAG interface  for more details see..  Nexus

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

Download Speeds PPC      Ethernet..........280 KBytes/sec          USB.......170 KBytes/sec       Serial.....6 KBytes/sec  

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 as a package containing  Cable, winIDE, Assembler, Editor, ICD and Flash Programmer.