Hello TI community,
I have been having major issues with this board for the past couple weeks and would love to resolve them. Any help will be greatly appreciated and I will be ecstatic the second I am able to actually program the device!
Board (as written on the quick start guide): C6748 Development Kit (LCDK)
Operating System: Windows 7
Software: Code Composer Studio Versions 6.1.3, and 5.1.0.09, Terra Term
External Hardware Available: Composite Camera, XDS100v2 (as far as I understand, this simulates signals and can be used to simulate an additional UART port), VGA Monitor
Problem 1: I have been unable to reproduce the facial detection demo. I have tried two different boards (both brand new) and, much to my dismay, have not had anything work. I followed the quick start guide exactly. I even went as far as to watch the setup video and again, followed the instructions exactly. Once again, it did not work. It would be great to get the facial detection demo to work because at least that way I would be able to see the board doing something.
Problem 2: I do not know where to start in order to program this board. I have followed some instructions on installing Code Composer Studio along with some other software but nothing has worked. I would really like to start programming this board instead of spending hours trying to talk to it. I have only tried programming the board through the USB UART connection. I have NOT tried loading code onto the microSD card, and am unsure as to how I would do that anyways.
General Notes for Both Problems:
- I have tried two different serial communication programs, Tera Term, and Moba X Term. I defaulted to Tera Term because that is what has been used in the TI examples.
- I have tried different boot modes on the board (switching the DIP switches) and have not seen any difference
- If I try and boot in the SD card boot mode without the SD card, I will get a message on Tera Term saying "BOOTME". This is the only response I have gotten from the board besides a few green LEDs staying on.
- The microSD card provided came with 3 executables, all of which I have installed (or attempted to): ccs_setup_5.1.0.09000.exe (this did not work and is the reason I am using CCS 6.1.3 which I downloaded from the TI website), ti_cgt_c6000_7.3.1_setup_win32.exe, and bios_c6sdk_02_00_00_00_setupwin32.exe. I installed them on my computer in the order they were written. In the case of CCS 6.1.3, it replaced the CCS 5.1.0.09 in the installation order.
If possible, a step by step guide of how to program this specific development board with CCS 6.1.3 would be absolutely wonderful. I plan on writing a shape detection program that will use the composite camera and output over serial what the shape is (ie circle, square, triangle, etc.). Please let me know if there is any other information that I can provide to help.
My professor mentioned that this board may also support Linux. If that is possible, I would love to communicate with the Linux OS on the board via serial communication and write my program from there as it is an environment I am very familiar with. It was my understanding that only the OMAP-L138 supports this feature, but my professor insists that it will work with the C6748 board as well.
Unfortunately I am on a bit of a time crunch, so fast help would be much appreciated. Again, a huge thanks to anyone who is able to help me out. I really appreciate it!
