DSK C6713 EMIF as an output

Saadeq,

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Possibly when you originally posted your question, the formatting looked better than it does above. A feature that I use often is to click the Preview link next to Compose and Options. This will show you what the post will look like when you click Post. You have to go back to the Compose link to edit after that, but this feature helps when pasting text from another source. What I do is to copy text from some source, paste it into a simple text editor like notepad (I use PFE) and then copy from there into E2E. But that is just how I do it, other people may not have issues or may understand the editing buttons better than I do.

Now to your actual question.

To get your LEDs to light up, you will need the following to be done:

1. Your interface board must latch the values written over the EMIF because the address and data values do not remain after the short EMIF write operation has completed.
2. Your interface board must pull a control signal to the right state to enable the DSK's buffer to drive the 80-pin connector. You can refer to either the Technical Reference Guide for the board or the schematic to find which signal must be pulled to which state. It is probably called an Enable signal and may have External or Connector in its name.
3. Your DSP's EMIF must be configured for the right mode for the right Chip Enable region. You have named the addresses for CE1 and CE2, so if those match the available CEs that go to the 80-pin connector, then one or both of those regions need to be configured in the EMIF registers. This is usually done in the GEL file for debug and has to be done in the application code for a stand-alone application.
4. Your code shown above writes to CE2, so make sure that region is initialized somehow in the EMIF registers, either in your code or in your GEL file.
5. Your code shown above should write the value correctly through the EMIF and to your interface board when all of the above are addressed.

Regards,
RandyP

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·         Dear RandyP,

I thank you so very much for your time, your considerations and your help.

But I should let you know that I'm a professional web designer as well. so I knew about "preview" story about my post, I just did not know that TI E2E Forum has many problems with Google Chrome browser. So I've just edited my previous post and from now on, I'll just use IE browser.

 thanks a lot anyway :)

Now to my actual question:

As you may see now in my updated code, I put my main function code in an infinite loop (while (1)), so I guess we don't need to change the hardware now, right ?

I also made another hardware, only for this problem which is by a microcontroller to get those 32-bit data , directly from that EMIF 80-pin connector and I can pull up or down any CE or other pins in this interfaced board. So could tell me which pins should exactly become pull up or down ?

Furthermore, I have only one default gel file for the start up, do I have to add more gel files to my project or add some lines to the one I already have ? what should I add exactly ?

If I understood your statements well, I do not need to use CSL functions or Micros or assembly code to config the EMIF registers, right ?!

I will test anything you say, so please just feel free and give some options to test and be more specific.

Thank you so much,

Best Regards,

rafi3e@ieee.org

saadeq rafieee said:

I just did not know that TI E2E Forum has many problems with Google Chrome browser.

Please post your problems with Chrome to the E2E News and Site Support Forum (bottom of the list under Support at the E2E home page). Chrome is a popular browser and we intend that it is fully supported.

saadeq rafieee said:

I put my main function code in an infinite loop (while (1)), so I guess we don't need to change the hardware now, right ?

I expect you will change your mind later, but it is your engineering decision to implement your board how you wish. You still need to make the analysis and changes to make it work, below.

saadeq rafieee said:

I also made another hardware, only for this problem which is by a microcontroller to get those 32-bit data , directly from that EMIF 80-pin connector and I can pull up or down any CE or other pins in this interfaced board. So could tell me which pins should exactly become pull up or down ?

This is an interesting new development. I definitely do not understand your motivation for this. But for both hardware implementations, you will need to look at the schematic or tech ref to find out the pin that needs to be pulled. If you were to purchase an interface card from one of our 3rd parties, like Spectrum Digital and Link-Research, those boards would already be designed to work correctly with the DSK. Perhaps someone else on the forum will have those schematics and can analyze them for you, or you might find this already answered by doing a search through the E2E search tool.

saadeq rafieee said:

I have only one default gel file for the start up, do I have to add more gel files to my project or add some lines to the one I already have ? what should I add exactly ?

Since you are trying to customize your board, you need to do some engineering analysis and design. You also need to understand how to use and program the DSK. There are tutorials in CCS that help to explain the use of GEL files, and there are User's Guides that help to explain how the EMIF operates and gets configured. Your default GEL file may have some good examples that you can use to get started.

saadeq rafieee said:

If I understood your statements well, I do not need to use CSL functions or Micros or assembly code to config the EMIF registers, right ?!

In your code, you can use CSL functions as a convenient way to configure the EMIF and to do other functions in your code. I do not know how you would use Micros in your code, but it does sound like you have one on your new interface board. I am a bit confused.

We may need someone else to jump in here and tell you all your answers. Sorry I do not have them all for you.

Regards,
RandyP