VS Arduino - ESP32 Custom Board with Hardware Debug Breakout

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ESP32 Custom Board with Hardware Debug Breakout (Read 856 times)

Nikolai Newbies Offline Posts: 5 Joined: Jan 31^st, 2023	ESP32 Custom Board with Hardware Debug Breakout Feb 11^th, 2023 at 7:20am	Print Post
	On a similar "debugging" note, although not related to "Serial". I just bought this item on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQHG7F7J It seems to be a version of "ESP-Prog". If I make the next version of my device to expose JTAG pins, I should be able to just connect this? Also, currently I am using the old versions of ESP32-WROOM. But I was thinking to redesign my board to use ESP32-S3 (chip itself). Would it be better to expose JTAG pins for connecting "ESP-Prog" or expose the native USB port instead? Is one faster than the other? I can't easily expose things because my board is very small.


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Simon@Visual Micro Administrator Offline Posts: 2370 Joined: Feb 13^th, 2019	Re: ESP32 Custom Board with Hardware Debug Breakout Reply #1 - Feb 11^th, 2023 at 12:16pm	Print Post
	The ESP-PROG can be used easily with Visual Micro, and yes you would need to expose the JTAG pins, and ensure they are not connected to any other circuits when debugging (jumpers can be used to switch functionality if they are connected to e.g. sensors when not debugging). The ESP-WROOM chips only have the JTAG interface for an external probe: https://www.visualmicro.com/page/ESP32-Debugging.aspx The EP32-S3 I believe does support a USB debug interface by default, which means less pins to expose and no external probe is required: https://www.visualmicro.com/page/ESP32S3-USB-Debugging.aspx It does also allow an External probe to be used via the normal 4 JTAG pins, however this often requires burning a fuse (one way process) to enable this: https://www.visualmicro.com/page/ESP32S3-JTAG-Debugging.aspx Hopefully that helps to use your ESP-PROG probe, as well as design your future board to consider the hardware debugging aspects.


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