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Freescale FRDM-KL25Z
Headers
The FRDM-KL25Z doesn't come with header sockets, the following items were bought to fulfil this requirement.
1 x TE CONNECTIVITY / AMP-215307-6-SOCKET, VERTICAL, 2ROW, 12WAY 2 x TE CONNECTIVITY / AMP-215307-8-SOCKET, VERTICAL, 2ROW, 16WAY 1 x TE CONNECTIVITY / AMP-1-215307-0-SOCKET, VERTICAL, 2ROW, 20WAY
One day I will solder them in place.
Firmware
Out the box this board doesn't work with anything resembling a modern day computer so I never used it until 8 years after buying it in 2014.
Without an upgrade it doesn't work in any variety of Linux or Windows after 7. The fact that it doesn't work with anything except XP and 7 means it's very hard to upgrade.
You have to download new firmware to upgrade the bootloader from version 0.11 to something higher that works with a modern PC. Somehow I managed to get it to upgrade using Windows XP in a VirtualBox VM.
Once the upgrade magically worked I further updated it from OpenSDA to J-Link for NXP.
The files I think I used to proceed were (I have a bad memory but this is probably close):
DEBUG-APP_Pemicro_v108.SDA BOOTUPDATEAPP_Pemicro_v111.SDA 12_OpenSDA_FRDM-KL25Z.bin
Good luck.
Programming
frdm-kl25z.jlink
USB 000000123456 Device MKL25Z128xxx4 SelectInterface SWD Speed 4000 Reset Exit
/opt/JLink/JLinkExe ./frdm-kl25z.jlink SEGGER J-Link Commander V7.82 (Compiled Oct 13 2022 13:42:33) DLL version V7.82, compiled Oct 13 2022 13:42:08 J-Link Command File read successfully. Processing script file... J-Link>USB 000000123456 Connecting to J-Link via USB...O.K. Firmware: J-Link OpenSDA compiled May 27 2019 10:59:53 Hardware version: V1.00 J-Link uptime (since boot): N/A (Not supported by this model) S/N: 621000000 VTref=3.300V J-Link>Device MKL25Z128xxx4 J-Link>SelectInterface SWD Selecting SWD as current target interface. J-Link>Speed 4000 Selecting 4000 kHz as target interface speed J-Link>Reset Target connection not established yet but required for command. Device "MKL25Z128XXX4" selected. Connecting to target via SWD ConfigTargetSettings() start ConfigTargetSettings() end InitTarget() start InitTarget() InitTarget() end Found SW-DP with ID 0x0BC11477 DPv0 detected CoreSight SoC-400 or earlier AP map detection skipped. Manually configured AP map found. AP[0]: AHB-AP (IDR: Not set) AP[1]: MEM-AP (IDR: Not set) AP[0]: Core found AP[0]: AHB-AP ROM base: 0xF0002000 CPUID register: 0x410CC600. Implementer code: 0x41 (ARM) Found Cortex-M0 r0p0, Little endian. FPUnit: 2 code (BP) slots and 0 literal slots CoreSight components: ROMTbl[0] @ F0002000 [0][0]: F0000000 CID B105900D PID 000BB932 MTB-M0+ [0][1]: F0001000 CID B105900D PID 0008E000 MTBDWT [0][2]: E00FF000 CID B105100D PID 000BB4C0 ROM Table ROMTbl[1] @ E00FF000 [1][0]: E000E000 CID B105E00D PID 000BB008 SCS [1][1]: E0001000 CID B105E00D PID 000BB00A DWT [1][2]: E0002000 CID B105E00D PID 000BB00B FPB Cortex-M0 identified. Reset delay: 0 ms Reset type NORMAL: Resets core & peripherals via SYSRESETREQ & VECTRESET bit. Reset: Halt core after reset via DEMCR.VC_CORERESET. Reset: Reset device via AIRCR.SYSRESETREQ. J-Link>Exit Script processing completed.