Hi,
we encountered an issue with Flasher Pro on Renesas RL78: it seems that the option ChipErase in univ. flash loader configurator (v2.42) does actually not erase the whole chip, it rather erases the flash pages which will be written by the loaded hex file, untouched flash pages remain as they are.
Is it meant to behave like that - it's confusing as the checkbox in the project settings says ChipErase?
Is there an option to actually erase the whole chip - can this be fixed when using flash loader configurator?

For now we implemented a work around and (more or less manually) fill the empty addresses in the hex file with FFh - this seems to force the Flasher to erase also the other flash pages.
I already checked the Flasher user manual, using #ERASE command before executing #AUTO might work, still need to try this out.

Any help would be appreciated,
BR, Mario

Hi Arne,

thanks for the reply.
Is there a chance to get a checkbox in a future version of the flash loader configurator like "Erase the whole chip, I am aware of the performance loss"

BR, Mario

HI Arne,

thanks for the info and the link,
we managed to fill & pad the hex file using the IAR linker settings.

BR, Mario