Using OpenOCD on 32bit and 64bit Windows

by Angus on Jan.20, 2010, under Electronics, OpenPilot

OpenOCD is an Open Source On-Chip debugger which acts as the software layer to control your JTAG interface.

For the OpenPilot project we needed a way of programming and debugging the STM32 microcontroller. The easiest way to do this was using OpenOCD with the Olimex “ARM-USB-TINY-H” JTAG device.

Without going into the details here, if your interested in using OpenOCD on Windows (either 32bit or 64bit) then check out the guides on the OpenPilot wiki that we have created. They are easy to follow and include pictures to help you through the process.

http://wiki.openpilot.org/OpenOCD_Compile_on_x86
http://wiki.openpilot.org/OpenOCD_Compile_on_x64

It’s quite hard to find this information or find information that is up-to-date, so hopefully this helps someone out.

:OpenOCD, OpenPilot, STM32

2 Comments for this entry

Dean Camera
January 23rd, 2010 on 2:30 pm
Awesome Angus! I’ve actually got the exact same ARM JTAG (plus an ARM7 board) which was donated to me forever and a day ago for a LUFA port, but I could never figure out how to get it going. I’ll check out the Wiki and see if I can finally make a blinky app for it.

- Dean
Angus
January 23rd, 2010 on 2:35 pm
The 32bit wiki page is a little wrong at the moment, I need to fix it.

Basically you need to download the latest snapshot (not v0.3.1) and run “./bootstrap” like described on the 64bit page.

The ARM JTAG is an awesome little thing. As much as I hate eclipse with a passion, it does make degbugging very easy.

Cheers,
Angus