i.MXRT1050
NXP's iMXRT105x family features a Cortex-M7 core without internal flash but with support for QSPI and HyperFlash through a so called FLEXSPI controller. NXP's official evaluation board, the MIMXRT1050 EVK is shipped with a 512Mbit Hyper Flash device by default. Alternatively, a QSPI flash can be mounted but several board modifications (removing the hyper flash, adding resistors, etc...) are required. As both flashes are accessed through the same memory mapped address space, either the HyperFlash or the QSPI flash RAMCode needs to be used for memory accesses to this area. Please find below further information how to enable the desired flash algorithm (RAMCode).
Hyper Flash
By default, the Hyper Flash algorithm is selected in the J-Link software. No additional steps are required.
QSPI flash
To enable the QSPI flash support in the J-Link software, the JLinkDevices.xml needs to be modified. For further information regarding the JLinkDevices.xml, please refer to the Open Flashloader chapter in the J-Link User Manual (UM08001).
- Open the JLinkDevices.xml (e.g. C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGGER\JLink_V631d\JLinkDevices.xml
- Search the desired iMXRT <Device> entry
- Change Loader="Devices/NXP/iMXRT105x/NXP_iMXRT105x_HyperFlash.elf" to Loader="Devices/NXP/iMXRT105x/NXP_iMXRT105x_QSPI.elf"
- Save the JLinkDevices.xml
From now, the J-Link software uses the QSPI RAMCode instead of the HyperFlash RAMCode for the flash download.
Please note that several modifications needs to be done on the evaluation board to enable QSPI programming / booting from QSPI. For further information regarding this, please refer to NXPs board user manual.
Examples
The example projects below can be used to evaluate Hyper Flash and QSPI Flash programming support with J-Link using a simple blinky project. The project is based on the SEGGER Embedded Studio IDE.
- SEGGER Embedded Studio for ARM 3.35
- NXP MIMXRT1050-EVK (Hyper Flash configuration)
- J-Link software version V6.31d
Hyper Flash
QSPI Flash
Please make sure that at least software version V6.31d is installed.
