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TMDXRM46HDK: Hercules Demo Suit Launcher hangs

Daniel Fowler
Prodigy 20 points
Part Number: TMDXRM46HDK
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: UNIFLASH, HALCOGEN

Hi,

got my new HDK and following the Quick Start Guide.

After having problems with the CD installations I installed web versions of:

Installed CCS (7.2)
Installed Hercules Safety MCU Development Kit (4.0)

Connected the board to PC and PSU, pressed PORST.

Run the Hercules Safety MCU Demos PC program.

PC program starts and says RM46 detected, safety demo not.  Select Yes to load program.

LED on board flashes briefly.

PC program hangs, stuck on "Now Programming RM46x_demo_software.out", left it for a long time.

Retried it a few times.

The PC program is unresponsive, "Exit" doesn't work nor the X in the corner. Need to kill it in task manager.

How to I get the Safety demos running?

What other demos/tutorials are available for sanity checking my new board?

I'm using a Windows 10 64-bit machine.

regards,

DAN

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    TI__Guru 68920 points

    Dan,

    The OOB demo is broken when you try to use it with a modern PC and modern UniFlash.

    I ran into a couple things and reported them to get fixed, not sure the status.

    ( can you pls comment on status of OOB demo fix?)


    The first is that when the demo tries to find UniFlash it looks for a registry key.   But latest versions

    of UniFlash (I think anything 4.x or later) don't create this registry key and an exception gets generated

    when the demo tries to get the value of a non-existing key.

    Second is that it writes temp files in weird places on your machine like C:\ and with new windows some of these

    folders are protected.

    You can try to program the .out file outside of the demo through Uniflash so that the demo doesn't think it needs to

    reflash ... this has worked for me on LaunchPads...


    Best Regards,
    Anthony

  • 0 in reply to Anthony F. Seely
    Prodigy 20 points
    Thanks.

    Downloaded and installed Uniflash.

    Found the RM46x out file under the Hercules Safety Demo install

    Flashed it with Uniflash, it did report a verification error.

    Started the MCU Safety demo again and it worked.

    BTW the high density display on my modern PC causes issues in HALcogen, need to drop the scaling down from 150% to 100%. Makes the screen harder to read but layouts HALcogen are then correct.

    DAN