C6743 boot from UART0

Anton Evstafiev

Prodigy 160 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TMS320C6743

Hi,

When downloading TMS320C6743 via UART0 I've been using:

*.out file working on board with JTAG (test application with flashig led)
AISgen for D800K005 version 0.8.2.0
UART Boot Host Utility (both from sprab04g.zip installation)

I've experiened a problem to complete downloading the application:

The questions are:

1. What's going wrong?

2. Is there document with detailed description of AIS commands?

Please, hint me the best way to successfully download and start program on TMS320C6743 (D800K005 ROM).

I have trying UART0 boot because of NAND8 boot still does't work. And UART0 boot utility has some logging info.

over 8 years ago

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 8 years ago

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Dear Anton,
Please refer to the following bootloader guide.
www.ti.com/.../sprab04g.pdf

Also refer to the following UART boot related posts.
e2e.ti.com/.../92521
e2e.ti.com/.../129042

Please refer to the below TI wiki page which helps to do UART boot.
processors.wiki.ti.com/.../Manually_Patch_AIS_File_using_Perl_Script

I have done some benchmarks on various boot modes.

processors.wiki.ti.com/.../C6748_AIS_Read_Benchmarks

0 Anton Evstafiev over 8 years ago in reply to Titusrathinaraj Stalin

Prodigy 160 points

Thanks, Tutus S.!
Of course, I have read bootloader guide before posting my question.

Perl script is very helpful to discovering boot issues!

Also I discovered that sometimes AISGen Utility issue is appeared:
Though I changing some option the output bin file stays unchanged. The only way to work around this issue is to use "File->Reset Confguration".
It may be helpful for other users!

I found out the way to avoid AISGen Utility: It's needed to run application as administrator!

0 Titusrathinaraj Stalin over 8 years ago in reply to Anton Evstafiev

TI__Guru** 116100 points

Dear Anton,
Thanks for your update.

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