Sometimes you’d really like to be able to use full trace, but you just don’t have the parallel pins configured on your target, which conventional wisdom tells you you’ll need. You might not be quite out of luck. READ MORE
Category: ORBTrace
JTAG/SWD/Parallel Trace interface dongle for ARM CORTEX-M
Adding a fake LCD to your embedded system
Embedded systems often come with LCDs. Sometimes they’re little tiny ones of 2×8 chars, sometimes they’re great full colour monsters, but the one thing they have in common is that they’re very inconvenient for getting information off of and back into a host computer when you’re developing with them. READ MORE
Using Single Wire Output when parallel trace isn’t available
Your hardware might not have the necessary 20-way connector on board to support the TRACE capabilities of ORBTrace, but don’t worry, all is not lost, SWO is here to help with an auto-configured alternative providing a link at up to 48Mbps. READ MORE
ORBTrace for debugging with Blackmagic Probe
We’ve covered getting started using ORBTrace Mini with pyOCD and openocd. Now, it’s the turn for Blackmagic to get the treatment… READ MORE
Building your ORBTrace
So, you finally got your ORBTrace Mini, and to keep it in pristine condition you got the case too. Wouldn’t it be nice if someone had written an illustrated guide on how to assemble it all? READ MORE
ORBTrace for flashing FPGAs
ORBTrace isn’t just good for CPUs, it can wiggle anything with a JTAG interface. For illustration, here’s how to use it to bootstrap another ORBTrace device using openFPGAloader. READ MORE
ORBTrace for debugging using pyOCD
We’ve already covered getting started with debugging using openocd, but what if your preferred debugger interface is pyocd? READ MORE
ORBTrace for Debugging with openocd
ORBTrace offers a heck of a lot of functionality. This article doesn’t cover more than a small fraction of it, but it should serve as a get-you-going out of the box walk-through to get simple debugging up using gdb and openocd in conjunction with ORBTrace. READ MORE