Hi,

I am debugging an externally built executable in Embedded Studio, my setup is NXP MIMXRT1060-EVK board + JLink.

My main purpose is to profile my application, and I found Embedded Studio very good for that.
it is the only tool I found so far to find hotspots with SWO PC Sampling, since it shows hit counts at instruction level.

There is a major problem however,
in the Execution Profile I can only see functions and instructions in flash.
The code I mostly need to profile is running from SDRAM, at address 0x80000000-0x82000000.

The Execution Trace view seems to collect RAM PC Samples, it shows addresses and correct symbols,
but this data seems to be filtered away in the Execution Profile view.

Am I missing some configuration? Any help would really be appreciated

Thanks

Hi,

attached you can find the MCUXpresso project used to build the test application and the ES project used.
I added a couple screen shots of Instruction Trace and Execution Profile taken with the project provided.

Many thanks,
Alessio

Hi,

just in case, I re-tryied the provided project, it downloads correctly and runs as I remember it did.

The board setup should be the default MIMXRT1060-EVK setup, with QSPI Flash.
I took a picture so you can check jumpers and switches.
I connected the JLink through J21, the full 20 pins connector.

The ES version I'm using is Release 4.50 / Build 2020021311.41397 ad it uses J-Link 6.62b

I gave a try to the new Ozone 3.20b (uses a different JLink version) and it fails downloading the program.

With my company we encountered troubles with newer Ozone/JLink versions and RT106x processors,
leading to a bad state of the flash. I don't know if could be the case, I mentioned it just in case,
I am going to open a thread about it soon.

Thanks for the support.
Alessio

Hello,

I think no, if you try ES 4.50 / Build 2020021311.41397 / J-Link 6.62b does it work?

I tried the following steps:

- J-Flash 6.62b -> Erase Chip (done successfully) -> Disconnect
- Open ES project with ES 4.5 -> F5 (download ok)
ES asks me for the folder location of hello_world.cpp and and then stops at main
- Quit ES
then

- J-Flash 6.62b -> Erase Chip (done successfully) -> Disconnect
I created an Ozone project, leaving AfterTargetDownload() and AfterTargetReset() empty (but not commented out)
- Ozone 3.10e -> open project -> F5 (download ok)
Ozone reported an error

Timeout while restoring target, core does not stop. (PC = 0x20000010, XPSR = 0x01000000, SP = 0x81DFFFD8)!
Can not read register 15 (R15) while CPU is runningCan not read register 7 (R7) while CPU is runningCan not read register 6 (R6) while CPU is runningCan not read register 5 (R5) while CPU is runningCan not read register 4 (R4) while CPU is runningCan not read register 3 (R3) while CPU is runningCan not read register 2 (R2) while CPU is runningCan not read register 1 (R1) while CPU is runningCan not read register 0 (R0) while CPU is runningCan not read register 15 (R15) while CPU is runningPC of target system has unexpected value after preparing target. (PC = 0x00000000)!
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Registers -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
PC = 00000000
Current: R0 = 00000000, R1 = 00000000, R2 = 00000000, R3 = 00000000
R4 = 00000000, R5 = 00000000, R6 = 00000
Download failed: error during verification phase

- then pressed F5 again and this time it stopped at main as expected, stop
- J-Flash 6.62b -> Erase Chip (done successfully) -> Disconnect
- Ozone 3.10e -> open project -> F5
this time it stopped at main without errors the first time

then I tried with Ozone 3.20b (same project)
- J-Flash 6.62b -> Erase Chip (done successfully) -> Disconnect
- Ozone 3.20b -> open project -> F5
it failed with the following messages:

Debugger tries to read unknown register with index 88 (0x00000058)
Debugger tries to read unknown register with index 89 (0x00000059)
Debugger tries to read unknown register with index 90 (0x0000005A)
Programming failed @ address 0x60000024 (block verification error)
Download failed: error during program/erase phase
Debugger tries to read unknown register with index 88 (0x00000058)
Debugger tries to read unknown register with index 89 (0x00000059)
Debugger tries to read unknown register with index 90 (0x0000005A)

- disassembly window halted at 0x002020B4, stop
- then pressed F5 again, same error messages


Ok, any idea about when there will be full support?

many thanks,
Alessio

Hi,

the "Debugger tries to read unknown register" message is showing in Ozone 3.20b (latest) console.

I installed JLink 6.80e, updating Ozone 3.20b dll.
The "Debugger tries to read unknown register" still appears but apart from this,
everythig now seems to work. The program starts and halt at main().

Let me know if you succede in running the test project.

Thank you,
Alessio