This is the documentation for the latest (main) development branch of mcuxpresso sdk. If you are looking for the documentation of previous releases, use the drop-down menu on the left and select the desired version.

Hardware requirements

  • Mini/micro USB cable

  • MIMXRT1170-EVKB board

  • Personal Computer

Board settings

This example project does not call for any special hardware configurations. Although not required, the recommendation is to leave the development board’s jumper settings and configurations in default state when running this example.

Prepare the demo

  1. Connect a USB cable between the PC host and the OpenSDA USB port on the board.

  2. Open a serial terminal on PC for OpenSDA serial device with these settings:

    • 115200 baud rate

    • 8 data bits

    • No parity

    • One stop bit

    • No flow control

  3. Build core1 project first, then build core0 project.

  4. Download the core0 program to the target board.

  5. Either press the reset button on your board or launch the debugger in your IDE to begin running the demo.

Running the demo

When the demo runs successfully, the log would be seen on the OpenSDA terminal like as below and LED will blink:

MU example polling!
Send: 0. Receive 0
Send: 1. Receive 1
Send: 2. Receive 2
Send: 3. Receive 3
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Send: 5. Receive 5
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MU example run succeed!

Note: To download and debug IAR EW project using J-Link (replacing the default CMSIS-DAP debug probe), following steps are needed:

  1. Remove J6 and J7 jumpers.

  2. Attach the J-Link probe (J-Link Plus / J-Trace) to the board using the J1 connector.

  3. Set “J-Link / J-Trace” in CM7 project options -> Debugger -> Setup panel (replacing CMSIS-DAP option).

  4. Unselect the “Use macro file(s)” in CM7 project options -> Debugger -> Setup panel.

  5. Enable “Use command line options” in CM7 project options -> Debugger -> Extra Options panel (–jlink_script_file=$PROJ_DIR$/../evkbmimxrt1170_connect_cm4_cm7side.jlinkscript command line option is applied).

  6. Click on “Download and Debug” button. During the loading process you can be asked by J-Link sw to select the proper device name (MIMXRT1176XXXA_M7 is unknown). Click O.K. and choose the MIMXRT1176xxxxA device.

  7. It is not possible to attach to the CM4 core when using the J-Link. Also, the multicore debugging does not work with that probe.

Note: To download and debug Keil MDK project using J-Link (replacing the default CMSIS-DAP debug probe), following steps are needed:

  1. Remove J6 and J7 jumpers.

  2. Attach the J-Link probe (J-Link Plus / J-Trace) to the board using the J1 connector.

  3. Set “J-LINK / J-TRACE Cortex” in CM7 project options -> Debug panel (replacing CMSIS-DAP Debugger option).

  4. After the CM7 application build click on Download/F8 button (menu Flash -> Download).

  5. Power off and power on the board.

  6. Multicore example starts running, one can start debugging the CM7 side by clicking on Start/Stop Debug Session (Ctrl + F5).

  7. It is not possible to attach to the CM4 core when using the J-Link.