Debugging nRF51 with Eclipse - Console shows binary garbage

RE: Debugging nRF51 with Eclipse - Console shows binary garbage

Hung Bui — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:33:47 GMT

Hi again Florian,

Sorry for late response, it's been busy lately.

I noticed that you have Semihosting and SWV in the Console log, in my case and in the tutorial it was JLinkGDBServerCL.exe, maybe it was because you are using Linux.

But what if you try to uncheck the check box for "Allocate console for semihosting and SWO" ? And were you able to stop at a break point ? Have you made sure you installed Cross compiler, J-link Debugging and Packs ? as described in "Setting up Eclipse the first time" ?

RE: Debugging nRF51 with Eclipse - Console shows binary garbage

Hung Bui — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 11:05:00 GMT

Hi Florian,

We haven't seen this before. Please make sure that GDB server path is correct (you can try to put the absolute address, instead of ${jlink_path..) Please let me know the gcc version you are using. And please update Segger Jlink to latest version.

One thing you can try is to run GDB server separately and use the GDB client console arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe to debug. This way you don't need Eclipse and can rule out if the issue is with Eclipse. You can have a look here to know how to debug with arm-none-eabi-gdb.exe and Segger GDB server. You can use .axf file instead of the .elf file.

RE: Debugging nRF51 with Eclipse - Console shows binary garbage

Hung Bui — Mon, 14 Dec 2015 13:31:16 GMT

Hi Florian,

Could you update the question with a screen shot ? Also with some more description on your steps of testing.