Cortex-debug powerful extension for VSCode
In the process of working on a new example (timer), I had some difficulty to make it work. I've found out it that my current setup for Black Magic Probe doesn't work with interrupts. Luckily, in the process of debugging I have found a very useful tool for debugging Cortex MCUs which supports Black Magic Probe debugger and with it, everything works much better because it has preloaded setup for BMP. The name of the extension is Cortex-debug . In the time of writing this text version, 0.1.21 doesn't support powering board over BMP (monitor twpr enable) so I modified the source of the extension to enable it. Link to the modified extension is here . If you are Linux user you need to unpack this zip in to /home/your_user_name/.vscode/extensions/ and restart VSCode. Now your Pixracer (or other board) will be power up before you start debugging it. Another useful thing you can do is to add a static name to your black magic probe instead check i...
