Simplify development with TASKING tools - SmartCode, winIDEA and iC7mini BlueBox

Feb­ru­ary 16, 2024

In the fast-paced land­scape of safe­ty appli­ca­tion develop­ment, devel­op­ers require fast and user-friend­ly develop­ment envi­ron­ments and high-per­for­mance hard­ware debug­gers. 

Our video show­cas­es the inte­gra­tion of Smart­Code, winIDEA, and the iC7mini Blue­Box, when devel­op­ing an Infi­neon TC4x safe­ty appli­ca­tion. Here is the step-by-step guide:

• Start TASKING Smart­Code Toolset to eas­i­ly import projects
• Com­pile your appli­ca­tion and con­fig­ure Smart­Code to access iC7mini Blue­Box
• Con­nect to your tar­get hard­ware, pro­gram the Infi­neon TC4x, and start the winIDEA Debug­ger

Smart­Code v10.2r1, the lat­est ver­sion of the inte­grat­ed develop­ment envi­ron­ment for the AURIX TC4x fam­i­ly, sup­ports all the archi­tec­tures and micro­proces­sor cores inte­grat­ed into the TC4x. Smart­Code is based on the Eclipse IDE and can be used with both Win­dows and Linux hosts. A Safe­ty & Secu­ri­ty Man­u­al for Tri­Core and the Par­al­lel Pro­cess­ing Unit is includ­ed for tool qual­i­fi­ca­tion. 

The iC7mini is the lat­est gen­er­a­tion of the proven Blue­Box hard­ware debug­ger. The iC7mini brings faster response times and improved per­for­mance to soft­ware develop­ment, enabling a smoother GUI and API expe­ri­ence. The new and improved ECU inter­face ensures sig­nal integri­ty is main­tained in even the most demand­ing envi­ron­ments. Addi­tion­al advance­ments allow test­ing in the Con­tin­u­ous Inte­gra­tion domain to be twice as fast, and the abil­i­ty to work in a glob­al develop­ment envi­ron­ment with remote ‘debug’ farms has been sig­nif­i­cant­ly improved.

Smart­Code allows con­nec­tion to the hard­ware tar­get via the iC7mini, and the abil­i­ty to debug ‘Tri­Core cores’ via the Infi­neon mini­Wig­gler is also includ­ed. Smart­Code now con­tains an Eclipse plug-in which allows it to access the pow­er­ful and ver­sa­tile winIDEA IDE.