PSoC 5LP Programmer Firmware

So I got this compiled and working on Creator 3.0 upgrading booloader and bootable to only 1.10 and not letting USBFS upgrade at all.

Now I'm trying to use this and redirect the programming output to use the 5LP 12 pin header. Mapped xres_n to P0.0, SWDCLK to P3.4, SWDIO to P3.6.

I used the same configuration to modify AN84858 to program a 4200 prototype board (the $4 ones). using the included C# to create the HexImage file out of a .hex bootloadable program, that I couldn't program before because I did run the default AN84858 code that removed the bootloader.

But I want to take it a step further to be able to use the pioneer as a debugger for an external PSoC 4200. The kitprog shows up but it doesn't find the PSoC 4 chip, even if the modified AN84858 can program it just fine. I also connected the Pioneer PSoC P3.0 and P3.1 to the prototype board P3.0 and P3.1 respectively for the I2C communication since in the pioneer they are connected to the 5LP P12.0 and P12.1 as shown in page 102 of the pioneer manual (awesome work btw). The only thing the prototype board doesn't have that the Pioneer does is XRES in the pioneer is pulled high to P4_VDD with a 4.7K resistor shown in page 101 and I'm using P5LP_VDD instead of the P4_VDD but that will be easy to do since it's available in pin 6 of J2.

The prototype chip has the same chip (CY8C4245AXI-483 44TQFP) as the Pioneer one.

So I'm going to try to put a 4.7K resistor between XRES and P4_VDD on my breadboard, but I doubt that's all it takes.

Am I missing anything obvious?

So I moved from the 5LP_VDD to the P4_VDD and added a 4.7K resistor between /XRES and P4_VDD

The prototype board runs it's blinking bootable program, but KitProg can't see the chip.

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I remember somewhere in the project that it forced contiguous pins, can that be the reason?

Like using P3.4 and P3.5 in the 5LP instead of P3.4 and P3.6 for the SWDCLK and SWDIO?

Edit: I know the MiniProg 3 will solve my issue, but for $90 I can get more dev kits instead of programming ones.

I have 40 PSoC for a project that of course I can program now with the altered AN84858 Pioneer code.

10 QFPs 10 SSOPs and 20 QFNs, the last ones I ordered by mistake, but the thing is I would love to build a prototype board of my own and use the Pioneer as a programmer/debugger. I can do the programmer but not the debugger.

I'm also aware about using the $4 prototype boards as programmers but I would love to do the debugging as well without purchasing the MiniProg 3B which I should probably get anyways.

Success:

I connected the Pioneer's PSoC 4 P3_0, P3_1, GND, P4_VDD & /XRES to the same pins in the prototype kit.

For SWDIO and SWDCLK used the PSoC 5LP P0_0 and P0_1 and connected those to the prototype board.

I only had to change the ProgKit pinout for SWDIO from P5LP2_0 to P5LP0_0  and SWDCLK from P5LP2_1 to P5LP0_1 and wired it as shown here:

Now I can use program directly from Creator 3.0 and if I open Debug/Select Debug Target... I get the KitProg with the chip enumerated within it.

Finally I was able to attach to the running program or debug it from scratch and set a Breakpoint

Thank you for making the KitProg source available!

Edit: I was too hasty about debugging from scratch, but I can however attach to the running project and put breakpoints after attaching, will investigate further about being able to use F5 to debug from scratch. Also P3_0 and P3_1 don't seem to be needed, and the pull-up resistor probably can go away as well.

If the program is not bootloadable it has full debug, meaning you can press F5 and step through the code from main.

Of course I don't run it in such a small window, I resized the IDE to make it more post friendly

Excuse the mess of jumper wires, but this has the Pioneer debugging the prototype kit that runs a frequency counter (on the floating yellow wire on the left) that is picking up the 60Hz mains that is everywhere.

The frequency counter code comes from this site:

self.clue++ : Starting the PSoC frequency counter series

I overdid the contrast so it will show up in the camera. Also the thing on the right of the breadboard is two pots and a buzzer, i'm using one of the pots to adjust the contrast of the LCD screen. Although it could be controlled with and analog output pin and use capsense to adjust it.

So it's acting like a MiniProg3 after all. Also I didn't need the pull up resistor nor the 2 wires for SPI, so it's a 5 wire programmer just like the MiniProg3.

Also I don't have to care about removing the bootloader on the prototype kit since I can upload a bootloader anytime now.

If the program is not bootloadable it has full debug, meaning you can press F5 and step through the code from main.

Of course I don't run it in such a small window, I resized the IDE to make it more post friendly

Excuse the mess of jumper wires, but this has the Pioneer debugging the prototype kit that runs a frequency counter (on the floating yellow wire on the left) that is picking up the 60Hz mains that is everywhere.

The frequency counter code comes from this site:

self.clue++ : Starting the PSoC frequency counter series

I overdid the contrast so it will show up in the camera. Also the thing on the right of the breadboard is two pots and a buzzer, i'm using one of the pots to adjust the contrast of the LCD screen. Although it could be controlled with and analog output pin and use capsense to adjust it.

So it's acting like a MiniProg3 after all. Also I didn't need the pull up resistor nor the 2 wires for SPI, so it's a 5 wire programmer just like the MiniProg3.

Also I don't have to care about removing the bootloader on the prototype kit since I can upload a bootloader anytime now.

So that there is no doubt, other than the 4200 $4 prototype kit I have a 4100 $4 prototype kit as well.

I soldered one set of male headers like I did on the previous one and hooked it up to the breadboard and fired it up.

The 4100 chip showed up under the KitProg:

Also I was able to acquire it:

And program it with a bootloadable image, and of course you can program and debug it the same as the Pioneer built in 4200. Note the capsense pionner RGB demo is still running in the built in 4200 I just did touch the slider to turn it green instead of red. The 4100 has the blinky bootloadable demo but I could use it to display something on the LCD, but no analog so I didn't bother.

If you want more detailed connections or explanations (I would think it's clear enough if you look at the schematics), let me know in this thread. a thumbs up will help too even if the hard work was really done by the hard working folks from Cypress. I just rewired 2 pins!

I don't have access to PSoC 3 boards or PSoC 5LP ones either, nor the original PSoC 1. So I don't know if they will enumerate right, I don't see why not but I didn't look deep in the code. I do however have 40 4200 chips for a small project in all three packages (QFN, TQFP & SSOP) that I intend to use the Pioneer to program them.

Edit: this should work for the 4000 chips as well.