Error with Hercules Safety MCU Demos

Sorry, I forgave the image file.

Luigi,

Can you tell me which board/device you are using? Also what is the link used to connect the board to your PC? (Xds100, other...)

Hi,

I'm usign the Hercules Development Kit TMS570 MCU with TMX570LS3137 CPU

The Link is the Usb port.

Luigi,

Ok now that I know which board and emulator you are using I can try to help you.

First can you have a look to the following post and check is the drivers for the XDS100 are correctly installed on your machine.

http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/hercules/f/312/t/270213.aspx

Try to connect with CCS to see if everything is ok and let me know.

I'm using CCS v4, is it better to upload to the v.5??

Hi Jean-Marc and Luigi,

I suggest to close the thread with the same issue.

http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/hercules/f/312/p/271181/947650.aspx#947650

We can focus on this here.

Thanks.

Jay

Ok,

So we can focuse on this post.

Summarizing: I've got HDK TMS570 MCU with the Demos software and CCS v4 installed on y laptop which has Windows 7 32bit.

And my nowFlash version is the 3.41 and it is installed in the directory C:\ti\nowFlash\v3.41

When I try to use the Demos software it return the message in the image:

What can I do?

Luigi,

CCS 4 is an old and obsolete version. I will recommend to upgrade to CCS5.3

Also you can have a look to this post:

http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/hercules/f/312/t/270213.aspx

Luigi,

Within CCS, are you able to access the target device and program it?

For more detail on how to download code from CCS please have a look to the following post:

http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/hercules/f/312/t/270213.aspx

In this thread, you will find a simple Hello_World project and the step by step procedure to import the project in CCS and to download the code in the device.

Luigi,

am I right that you are somewhere in Europe? If so, please try to set your PC from Europe to US- or UK - English Keyboard and Region.  I have been told that the Safety demo is labview - based and somehow the existing application is not able to distinguish between a comma (,) in Europe and a the fullstop (.) in US. The path - to nowflash includes the version number (3.40 or 3.41) and this is the point, where the demo fails.

I think I have posted this answer in multiple threads. Wouldn't it be good to attach a sticker to the Demo for the guys in Europe? Or, to change the demo so that it accepts both the fullstop and the comma for the decimal divider?