MSP430F5438 BSL using Serial Comms ...

It works for me. But I did not test all the features and limitations as stated in the readme file.

What what denotes a  chip with the the BSL disabled?

I mentioned this in a similar thread, but I thought I'd repeat it here: FYI the chips with BSL disabled are the experimental "XMS" chips. If your top-side markings have XMS430... instead of MSP430 then your BSL is disabled! Order or sample a newer revision.

Thank You. That was my guess as I have both versions here in front of me. I just though I'd make sure.

Hi every one,

I am new to BSL programming.
I don't know how to write BSL code and 
Which is the software used to download BSL code to the MSP430F5438.

Please help me.

Regards
Sunil

Sunil,

You need to do a search for these documents; SLAA096D and SLAA089D.  These documents will tell you about  the BSL interface.  SLAA096D also has an associated zip file that has a BSL executable that runs on a Windows based PC and will program an MSP430 chip via the BSL interface as long as you have the associated circuitry described in the documents mentioned above.

My only warning is to not use the "X" chips or the MSP430F5xxxA chips use the regular MSP430F5xxx (NON "A") chips.  The "X" chips have the BSL interface disabled and the timing on the "A" chips do not use the standard timing.

Good luck!

Lane

Dear Lane Mitcham ,

 Thanks for your useful information,

i am using MSP430F5438 chip.

i am searching those documents which you have mentioned.. but i am not finding it.

if you have more information's please help me.

Thanks and Regards

Sunil

I have attached SLAA089D.pdf.

Here is the SLAA096D.pdf.

Here is the zip file that goes along with SLAA096D

Here is another useful zip file.  This is the easiest to use, IMHO.

Dear Lane Mitcham ,

 Thanks for your useful information,

Thanks and Regards

Sunil

Lane Mitcham

My only warning is to not use the "X" chips or the MSP430F5xxxA chips use the regular MSP430F5xxx (NON "A") chips.  The "X" chips have the BSL interface disabled and the timing on the "A" chips do not use the standard timing.

More correctly, the A chips have a critical timing on the BSL entry sequence while the non-A don't (actually a bug in the CPU startup microcode). And the timing requirements for the A version are so tight that they cannot be met with an USB->serial bridge and are hard to comply even with a real serial port on any higher-level OS due to all the abstraction layers for even low-level serial port access. (on Win7 even harder than under XP or Linux)

Dear Sir,

when i try to download the Application code to the MSP430F5438 using BSL programmer(BSL_Scripter.exe)

i am facing following Problem...

BSL Scripting application 1.06
The local time is: 12:19 on 30.04.2012
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Initializing, Mode: 5438 COM: COM1 DONE
Changing Baud Rate to 9600 DONE
Mass Erase: FAIL(ee)
RX Password: FAIL(ee)
Writing MSP430TB.txt to device: FAIL writing data block starting at 5c00
CRC from 5c00 of 4096 bytes to 982b FAIL....

please help me...

Thank you..