RE: Challenges in interfacing ulinkplus with Keil MDK

keilchris — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 07:45:11 GMT

Thanks for your initial road test review of the ULINKplus and the feedback this provides. I would like to take this opportunity to reply to the concerns you raised in the hope it will support your continued evaluation of the product:

The ULINKplus supports all modern Arm Cortex-M/A devices. Currently, we support more than 5,000 Arm Cortex-M based devices (see www.keil.com/dd2).
Legacy, non-Arm architectures are generally not supported (such as XC800, µPSD, XC166/XE166/XC2000, LPC950 (8051))
Compared to modern Cortex-M processors, Arm7 and Arm9 architectures are not a good target for ultra-low power consumption, and thus are not supported.
No Arm device can directly be debugged via USB, only via the JTAG/SW interface. While many development boards already to have a circuit on-board to enable a USB connection to the PC (such as ST-Link, OpenSDA), a wide range of NXP FRDM boards do have the required 10-pin connector for ULINKplus. Also, using some wires, you can connect to the STMicroelectronics proprietary 6-pin header that is part of most Discovery and Nucleo boards (and bypass the ST-Link). This gives a wide range of development boards that you can work with (see www.keil.com/boards2).
Device support is today part of so called device family packs (DFP). You can add them anytime to the MDK installation using the Pack Installer (refer to http://www2.keil.com/mdk5/install). Using these DFPs, we have support (including startup and system files) for close to 2,000 NXP and STMicroelectronics devices.
The LPC11UU37H is supported by packs: http://www.keil.com/dd2/nxp/lpc11u37hfbd64_401