Atmel Xplained board and EDBG

Technical Note 40560

Architectures:

ARM

Component:

debugger

Updated:

11/6/2015 10:41 AM

Introduction

An Atmel Xplained board is not recognized by IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM.

Solution

Change the selection in...
Project > Options > Debugger > Setup > Driver
...to be CMSIS-DAP.

Then check (and possibly change) the settings in...
Project > Options > Debugger > CMSIS-DAP.

Background

The Atmel Xplained board(s) has an Atmel proprietary on-board debug probe named "Atmel Embedded Debugger (EDBG)". Atmel EDBG uses the CMSIS-DAP communication protocol.

 

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