Can't get debugging to work in CrossWorks

RE: Can't get debugging to work in CrossWorks

allwires — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 22:52:28 GMT

I might be interpreting this wrong, but it seems that I should be able to at least run the program with the debugger, but only get a single breakpoint to work. Even if I disable all the breakpoints (including stopping at main, etc.), I still can't get it to just run with the debugger without crashing.

RE: Can't get debugging to work in CrossWorks

Sigurd — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 09:07:39 GMT

Normal debugging with breakpoints is not possible when the SoftDevice is enabled. See this post and this post .

RE: Can't get debugging to work in CrossWorks

allwires — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 23:45:03 GMT

@Sigurd Thanks for your response. I've tried those instructions but still get the same issue; if I just program the device in release mode (or even run it in the debugger, then remove the debugger and power cycle the board) it works, but if I try to do the debugging it crashes on softdevice_enable(). I don't know if it has to do with the fact that I'm using the nRF51 but the post is for the nRF52.

To answer your question about the SoftDevice, I am in fact using the S130 v.2. Specifically, I'm using the precompiled version from the SDK: nRF5_SDK_12.3.0_d7731ad\components\softdevice\s130\hex\s130_nrf51_2.0.1_softdevice.hex.

RE: Can't get debugging to work in CrossWorks

Sigurd — Tue, 10 Oct 2017 08:51:25 GMT

Hi,

Did you flash the SoftDevice S130 v.2? If yes, then it could be that you have incorrect settings for the FLASH and SRAM start addresses (Section Placement Macros in Segger Embedded Studio).

I would recommend that you use Segger Embedded Studio, you can find a guide on how to convert the Keil projects in the SDK to Segger Embedded Studio projects in this blog post.