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Stuck at "Now Programming TMS570LS3x_demo_software.out"

Dino David
Intellectual 645 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: UNIFLASH

Steps were followed as per Quick Start Guide provided in the box for TMS570LS31x Hercules Development Kit.

All the necessary software were installled and the board is connected with USB and is detected in the system as TI XDS100 Channel A and TI XDS100 Channel B.

The application Hercules Demo suite Launcher asked to download the demo programs to development board.

On accepting it, the launcher is stuck at "Now Programming TMS570LS3x_demo_software.out "

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    TI__Guru 59540 points
    Hello David,

    Can you open CCS and check to see if you can connect to the board with CCS? If you can connect, can you load the out file using either CCS or Uniflash? The out file will be located at this location (assuming you installed to the defaul location) :

    C:\ti\Hercules\Hercules Safety MCU Demos\TMS570LS3x_target_sources\build\Debug
  • 0 in reply to Chuck Davenport
    Intellectual 645 points
    Yes I tried with Uniflash. The problem got solved.
    However the problem was with my OS since it was Windows 8 but when I tried with Windows 7 it worked .
  • 0 in reply to Dino David
    Prodigy 130 points
    Hi,

    I had the same problem, but I have solved it in a different way, without changing the windows version to 7 ( I use windows 10).

    After seeing that It got stucked at "Now Programming TMS570LS3x_demo_software.out ", I used uniflash to erase the memory with the TMS570LS3x_demo_software.out file (C:\ti\Hercules\Hercules Safety MCU Demos\TMS570LS3x_target_sources\build\Debug) clicking on load image. NOTE: I tried to use verify before but it gave me an error, so I clicked directly on load image. Then, after reseting the board, I opened again the demo program, and it it worked everything as it was supposed :)

    I hope it will help someone with the same problem.

    Happy coding,

    Ander
  • 0 in reply to Ander Cilveti
    TI__Guru 69050 points
    I was looking at the labview sources for this demo last week and found that the demo GUI looks for UniFlash by checking for a string in the windows registry that doesn't seem to be created with the newer UniFlash installations.

    If you've got a UniFlash 3.x installation you could try adding this string to the key:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\CCS UniFlash 3.4.1.00012

    (where that key may be under \Microsoft\Wow6432Node\Windows.. if you are on an x64 machine).

    The demo is looking for the string 'DisplayIcon' to be set under this key, and it expects the path to the uniflash executable to be in that string..

    You could try using regedit to set this string to point to uniflash as a possible workaround.