Hi,

I'm new to the forum, although I've been a Visual Micro user for over 5 years, which I use as a development tool in my work.

Currently, we have a new project in hand, in which we have decided to upgrade our old Mega2560, which we have pushed to its limits, to the recent Giga R1 with all the advantages it brings.

For this reason, we have acquired a J-Link Ultra+ to be able to debug the two cores of the processor efficiently and comfortably.

However, we have encountered the problem that when trying to configure it, after following all the steps in the installation guide, including driver replacement, with the Arduino Giga R1 board selected, when configuring the debug as Hardware, the only option that appears in the Hardware Debugger section is "Manual/Custom" and the J-Link does not appear as such as indicated in the Visual Micro installation guide.

We have verified that the J-Link works by performing a debug test through its Ozone platform and everything seems to work correctly.

We have tested changing the board to the Portenta H7 (they use the same chip) and in this case, the J-Link does appear as a Hardware Debugger option.

In our understanding, it seems that the MBED_Giga platform is not yet supported by Visual Micro for debugging as the MBED_Portenta platform is.

Is there any solution to support the MBED_Giga platform, such as importing and copying the settings from the MBED_Portenta platform to support this board and be able to use the debug?

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

First of all, thank you for your help, but I have found that it did not work correctly.

I followed all the steps: downloaded OpenOCD from the link, unzipped it in the indicated path, enabled hardware debugging in the project, added the JSON with the attached configuration; but when I get to the step Debug > Attach to Process, an error appears saying "Unable to start debugging. Invalid characters in the path."

In the output section at the bottom, the following message appears:
1>------ Operación Implementar omitida: Proyecto: MK4xPilot_M7, configuración: Release ARM ------
1>Proyecto no seleccionado para compilarse para esta configuración de solución 
========== Implementación: 0 correcta, 0 con errores, 1 omitido ===========
========== Implementar completado a las 14:26 y tardó 00,062 segundos ==========

I have a second computer at home with another Visual Micro license and I tried to make it work on this one (changing the paths) and I couldn't get it to work. I tried modifying some of the addresses but I don't know what they are associated with, so I couldn't get it to work.

Can you help me understand why this error occurs and how to fix it? Maybe a guideline on which paths or configurations should be implemented in the JSON configuration and where to get them would be enough to avoid unnecessary hassle.

I'm trying to attach the output files for each PC and the JSON files, but I can't find a way to do it in this response, so I'm leaving a link attached with these files. The error is the same on both PCs.

https://texascontrol-my.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/personal/jose_martinez_texascontrol...

Thanks!