pico-debug VS openocd

Compare pico-debug vs openocd and see what are their differences.

pico-debug

virtual debug pod for RP2040 "Raspberry Pi Pico" with no added hardware (by majbthrd)

openocd

Official OpenOCD Read-Only Mirror (no pull requests) (by openocd-org)
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pico-debug openocd
2 5
269 1,470
- 3.3%
4.1 9.3
over 1 year ago 12 days ago
C C
- GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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pico-debug

Posts with mentions or reviews of pico-debug. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-28.
  • What're my debugging options without a raspberry pi?
    3 projects | /r/raspberrypipico | 28 Jul 2022
    There's also apparently a way to use the other core of a Pico as a debug programmer: https://github.com/majbthrd/pico-debug/ but that's pretty advanced.
  • Raspberry Pico: Simple Debugging with just one Device
    4 projects | dev.to | 25 Apr 2021
    This blog pot continues the Pico setup series and will detail how to setup a fully working debugger in VS Studio Code. Keep in mind that ultimately the steps are based on explanations from pico-debug project, and wizio-pico, but the setup is complex so I wrote a summarizing blog article. Follow along and you will be debugging your Pico C programs with the press of a simple launch button.

openocd

Posts with mentions or reviews of openocd. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-09-20.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pico-debug and openocd you can also consider the following projects:

DAPLink

wizio-pico - Raspberry Pi Pico development platform for PlatformIO

LuatOS - LuatOS -- Powerful embedded Lua Engine for IoT devices, with many components and low memory requirements (16K RAM, 128K Flash)

pyOCD - Open source Python library for programming and debugging Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers

pico-project-bootstrap - Kickstart your RP2040 Pico Projects with VS Code integrated one-click compile/upload, one-click debugging

dap42 - CMSIS-DAP debugger firmware for STM32F042Fx and STM32F103xx

MicroPython - MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems

pico-composite8 - Raspberry Pi Pico NTSC 8-bit Composite Video output using Resistor R2R DAC, interlaced at 640x480, with slideshow on second core.

g305-re - Reverse engineering of the G305 mouse by Logitech

EnvOpenPico - An open source RP2040 MCU Board Family

openocd