Re: Macraigor Raven JTAG hardware

[Spen <spen at spen-soft dot co dot uk>]

As another possible alternative have a look at: 
www.s.netic.de/tmohr/parportpcb.html - this has source code for a arm7 gdbserver. 

Spen 

On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 11:42 , Soam Vasani sent: 

>Shaun Jackman wrote: 
> > The Macraigor Raven is a JTAG debugging device that I'd like to use to 
> > debug an ARM7 target. It requires a small proprietary program, 
> > OCDRemote, that translates GDB-speak to some parallel port witchery. 
> > Is there an open-source replacement for this program available 
> > anywhere? 
> 
>Someone's made an attempt, see 
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdbice/ 
> 
> > It seems it shouldn't be terribly difficult to reverse engineer [1] 
> > their parallel port protocol by spewing some debug output from the 
> > Linux parallel port driver. 
> 
>This might help: 
>http://www.arm.com/pdfs/DDI0029G_7TDMI_R3_trm.pdf 
> 
>(probably the only thing you'll have to reverse engineer is the pin 
>configuration.) 
> 
> > Alternatively, who can recommend a cost effective way to debug the 
> > ARM7 using Linux, GDB, and JTAG? I have up to about a thousand bucks 
> > to spend on this project, but many JTAG devices cost a heck of a lot 
> > more than that. 
> 
>http://hri.sourceforge.net/tools/jtag_faq_org.html 
> 
>-- 
>soam 




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