Hi,
having old LM3S6965 Ethernet Eval board and EK-LM3S9B92 board.
For both I suddenly cannot communicate even with the simplest uart_echo example.
I can normally debug the application in CCS and everything else works except for the virtual Stellaris ICDI com port.
I see strange characters coming from the Stellaris ICDI com port when I debug the application.
The port seems to be correctly installed.
The strange characters come in regular intervals (about 1 second) are "DE FF FF FF FC".
Sometimes much more characters are coming.
When I debug I receive the characters (the interrupt is triggered) but no characters are sent.
Some 4 months ago this worked fine and I made no changes with driver setup/CCS setup etc.
When I don't debug the characters are not coming but I cannot communicate via this com port either.
Can it be that the used driver FTDI driver is somewhat broken due to some recent OS update?
I use Win7x64, CCS 6.1, Stellarisware from the devkit CD, newest ICDI driver from this TI link: 
