User`s manual

Chapter 2. Quick Start
By default the MiniDragon-Plus3 board is pre-installed with the bootloader (Freescale AN2153.pdf) and
the D-Bug12 monitor (Freescale DB12RG4.pdf). In chapters 2 and 3 the AsmIDE is used as the main
software tool to develop and debug assembly programs. If your board is pre-installed with serial
monitor (Freescale AN2548.pdf) to use Code Warrior IDE for C program development, skip the
chapters 2 and 3 after installing software.
People often use different terminologies. In HCS12 programming, Download means to transfer a file
from PC to a development board, while Upload means to transfer a file from a development board to
PC. Through out the manual, left click means that you click the left button of the mouse and right
click means that you click the right button of the mouse.
2.1 Install software:
The installation is automated by double clicking on the SETUP.BAT. It will create a folder
c:\MiniDragonP3\examples and copy all example program files to c:\MiniDragonP3\examples
If the filename is only shown as SETUP, not SETUP.BAT, you should change a folder option of
the Explorer to show file extension. When a file's extension is hiding, it is hard to know what it is.
To have your files to be shown with extensions, click on the TOOL tab in Explorer menu, then
click on folder options, then click on view tab, finally un-check the item named ‘Hide extensions
for knowing file types’.
The AsmIDE is free to use under GPL license.
After the software is successfully installed, you can make a shortcut to AsmIDE.exe on the
desktop. It’s important to make a shortcut so that its target location is C:\MiniDragonP3, not
c:\Windows\desktop or other locations. First, right click the Start button, then left click “Explorer”,
left click on C:\MiniDragonP3, right click on AsmIDE.exe (an application program), left click “Send
to” and finally left click “Desktop” (do not click “COPY”). It will create an icon named “shortcut to
AsmIDE” on the desktop and you can rename it to MiniDragon-Plus3. You can double check the
target location by right clicking on the icon, then left click on “properties”. You should see that the
target location is C:\MiniDragonP3. If you want to make a shortcut for AsmIDE on the Desktop,
this is the correct way to do it. If you don’t follow this method, you may have a problem running
your program. Never drag the AsmIDE.exe to the desktop folder.
The default setting of AsmIDE for the MiniDragon-Plus3 board is created in a text file named
c:\MiniDragonP3\AsmIDE.ini. In the future if you get lost with all the changes, you always can
copy this file into the folder c:\MiniDragonP3.
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