Automatically upload binary files (CCS 5.5)

Mark Samson

I'm debugging a custom board and its firmware and i have to load a variety of binary files using Tools->Load memory

Is there any way to automate the process with some C++ function? It's possible to use the standard C++ function to open/load files?

over 10 years ago

0 Ki over 10 years ago

TI__Guru**** 464431 points

hello,
The default and recommend way to automate debug actions in CCS is to use javascript and DSS:
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Debug_Server_Scripting

Thanks
ki

0 Ki over 10 years ago in reply to Ki

TI__Guru**** 464431 points

The DSS example of most interest is the "MemoryDump.js" example in: <CCSv6 INSTALL DIR>\ccsv6\ccs_base\scripting\examples\DebugServerExamples

It shows an example of the memory.loadRaw API which is used to load binary files.

ki

0 Mark Samson over 10 years ago

Intellectual 355 points

Thanks for you answer
I'll try it.

In these days i've also tryied to use C++ Function fopen and fread and this is my code

FILE * pFile;
pFile = fopen ( "TxText.bin" , "rb" );
if (pFile != NULL)
{
fseek (pFile , 0 , SEEK_END);
UINT32 lSize = ftell (pFile);
rewind (pFile);
UINT8* pBuffer = (UINT8*)0x0c000000;
size_t result = fread(pBuffer, 1, lSize, pFile);
fclose (pFile);
}

I'm trying to load TxText.bin into shared memory but executing this code i see that the file is open correctly (pFile != NULL and lSize is correct) but it's content is not copied in the shared memory (result = 0)

0 Ki over 10 years ago in reply to Mark Samson

TI__Guru**** 464431 points

There are a lot of "gotchas" when trying to use C I/O. Have you seen the below wiki article?
processors.wiki.ti.com/.../Tips_for_using_printf

It addresses many of the "gotchas".

Thanks
ki

0 Mark Samson over 10 years ago

Intellectual 355 points

Ok i've resolved.
The problem was that i was using a heap size too small... Now it's working correctly

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