Imag­ine hav­ing a fea­ture that auto­mat­i­cal­ly pre­sets detailed CPU set­tings for dif­fer­ent Eval­u­a­tion Boards and Emu­la­tion Adapters in winIDEA? 

Enter the world of Tar­get Board Pre­set Con­fig­u­ra­tion - a wiz­ard­ly solu­tion that auto­mates the process of set­ting up CPU para­me­ters for var­i­ous tar­get boards and emu­la­tion adapters.
 

Understanding Target Board Preset Configuration

Each Eval­u­a­tion Board and Emu­la­tion Adapter comes with its own unique require­ments and spec­i­fi­ca­tions, mak­ing the setup process daunt­ing and time-con­sum­ing. This is where Tar­get Board Pre­set Con­fig­u­ra­tion swoops in to save the day.

It pro­vides a user-friend­ly inter­face that enables you to select your tar­get board in the process of cre­at­ing a new winIDEA work­space, and with a click of a but­ton, all the CPU set­tings are con­fig­ured appro­pri­ate­ly. This automa­tion reduces the chances of human error and speeds up the develop­ment process.

To be more pre­cise, when you are con­fig­ur­ing Blue­Box hard­ware and con­nect­ing an Eval­u­a­tion Board or an Emu­la­tion Adapter, pos­si­ble vari­ants are list­ed by winIDEA. In the process of cre­at­ing your work­space, the above dia­log opens which allows you to:
•    Select your board
•    Access the board’s user man­u­al
•    Con­fig­ure debug & trace inter­faces
•    Dis­able watch­dogs

Why Evaluation Boards and Emulation Adapters?

Eval­u­a­tion boards serve as a play­ground for test­ing and exper­i­ment­ing with the fun­da­men­tal func­tion­al­i­ties of a micro­con­troller. For instance, an eval­u­a­tion board might offer inter­faces like User Switch­es, User LEDs, and UART com­mu­ni­ca­tion right out of the box. This means that devel­op­ers can quick­ly pro­to­type and val­i­date their ideas with­out hav­ing to start from scratch. How­ev­er, the true power of eval­u­a­tion boards lies in their expand­abil­i­ty. While they offer basic fea­tures, they often leave room for addi­tion­al com­po­nents to be con­nect­ed, such as dis­plays, key­boards, or CAN mod­ules.
When your tar­get device doesn’t have trace capa­bil­i­ties, this is where an Emu­la­tion Adapter comes in handy. The emu­la­tion adapter at its core has the same func­tion­al­i­ty as the pro­duc­tion sil­i­con with addi­tion­al debug and trac­ing capa­bil­i­ties. Anoth­er ben­e­fit of the emu­la­tion adapter is that you can also use it in a stand­alone oper­a­tion. This means you can use it as a start­up develop­ment plat­form until your hard­ware becomes avail­able. For instance, while it is still in develop­ment or man­u­fac­tur­ing.

Supported target boards

Cur­rent­ly, you can pre­set all Emu­la­tion Adapters, var­i­ous Infi­neon Tri­Boards for TC3xx, TC277 TFT Appli­ca­tion Kit, Traveo II CYTVII-B-E-176-SO, AURIX lite Kit V2, etc. 

See the whole list in winIDEA Help. 

What if your target board is not supported?

Worry no more, you can con­tact Tech­ni­cal Sup­port and our devel­op­ers will add it to the list.

Conclusion

Tar­get Board Pre­set Con­fig­u­ra­tion is a user-friend­ly way you can inter­act with Eval­u­a­tion Boards and Emu­la­tion Adapters and focus on the other aspects of your work rather than grap­pling with intri­cate CPU set­tings.

Now, let winIDEA wiz­ard sway its magic wand and con­fig­ure the work­space for you!