µVision4 User's Guide

Utilities

Use this feature to program the Flash memory of your target system.

You can use third-party Flash programming tools, which you can attach to and invoke from the development environment.

You have to select the target driver, or a third-party command-line tool, usually provided by the chip vendor.

Use Target Driver for Flash Programming

Select the driver for Flash Programming. Typically, this is the same driver set in Options for Target - Debug.

Use Debug Driver

Flag to automatically select the Debug driver set in Options for Target - Debug. The drop-down field for choosing the Flash driver is grayed out. The name of the old Flash driver might still be shown, but is not used. Click Settings to adjust the Flash driver characteristics.

Settings

Opens the dialog for setting the Flash driver characteristics.

Update Target before Debugging

Downloads the current application before the Debugger is started.

Init File

Specify an initialization file that µVision should execute before the program is flashed. This initialization file can contain Debug and Trace Commands required to configure the target for Flash download.

Edit...

allows to open and modify the initialization file with the text editor.

Use External Tool for Flash Programming

µVision can call a third-party tool to flash the target hardware.

Command

Enter the command (typically a .EXE file) of the Flash tool you want to use.

Arguments

Specify the arguments that µVision will pass to the Flash tool. You may use Key Sequences here.

Run Independent

When enabled, µVision does not wait for the Flash tool to finish.
When disabled, µVision waits until the Flash download completes and shows the results of the Flash tool in the Output Window.