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How to debug the Bouffalo BL60x MCU using JTAG, OpenOCD and GDB
Tuesday, August 23, 2022
BL602/604 is a RISC-V MCU by Bouffalolab. It’s integrated in the PineCone devboard by Pine64 , as well as in the PineDio STACK . This is a relatively new chip : developer tools are not mature yet and the documentation is often a bit lacking. This makes the developer experience not as comfortable is it should be. In this article, I’ll detail how to wire the PineCone to a JTAG adapter (the Pine64 USB JTAG adapter ), and how to setup OpenOCD and GDB to debug the code running on it.…
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First look at the 2nd prototype version of the PineDio STACK
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
PineDio is a new product range at Pine64 based on LoRa. Those products include a LoRa gateway, a USB-LoRa adapter, a LoRa backplate for the PinePhone and an embedded development kit based on the RISC-V BL604 MCU. You’ll find more info about PineDio on the wiki . Those products are not yet available for sale, as we are still working on bringing them up and running by writing software and drivers for them.…