Segger J-Link Debugger

[leroyle (Leroy L.)]

If you have the Jlink you may be better off taking a look at Segger’s Ozone debugger. To me it seems to be a more feature rich debugger.

Also you can use Segger’s Systemview product to get a feel for the RTOS task performance.

With PlatformiO out of the box you do not get a view of all of the RTOS tasks, only the current running. Take a look here: I think I’ve detailed how to get to the other tasks:

Hint: PlatformIO/Segger JLink RTOS Task Debugging

It was not obvious to me at first, but the underlying PlatformIO runtime that WisBlock uses is using a version of FreeRtos. The runtime main() creates, I think it is four separate tasks (think like threads in the desktop world) rtos required idle thread, runs when nothing else does a USB handler thread, not sure what all it does a callback handler thread our standard user loop() thread that we are used to with bare metal apps. When specifying JTLink as the debug_tool in platformio.ini, PIO wi…