CCS/TIDM-TMS570BMS: Cells not balancing on GUI using microcontroller set up.

Actually when we added the code you sent us to display the text on the TeraTerm terminal we're still getting the same problem we did, however the GUI opens and polls correctly. We are able to get text to print on the CCS console using printf() and the HetUART1PutText function but we have some confusing about the example code. It seems like we are getting those random characters because the code modifies the "Send Data using Polling Mode" by shifting the bit as shown in the example code:

{
unsigned int Tmp = Data;

Tmp <<= 1; // Shift in start bit (0)
Tmp |= 0x00000200; // Add stop bit (1)
while(hetRAM1->Instruction[2].Data != 0);
hetRAM1->Instruction[4].Data = Tmp << 7; // Load TX buffer
hetRAM1->Instruction[2].Data = 10 << 7; // Load bit count
}

we have tried modifying it in order to get the text on TeraTerm terminal but nothing seems to work. We suspect the NHET emulated UART is working because the GUI opens its just the data is being modified.

Also how would we go about testing the LINSCI as you said?

Hello Serpa,

Just want to make sure that you have the same HW setup as in the picture:

SPICS3 is used to wakeup the BQ part.

You can read the device ID using the build-in function: readReg(..). This function call scilin receive function to get data BQ part:

nRead = ReadReg(nDev_ID, 10, &wTemp, 1, 0); 

Yes we are using the connections described in the picture 

Only the ones circled in red are connected as we have read some other forum posts that say this is the basic connection in order for cell balancing to work while the J6 connection on the table (which is really J2 on my board) is optional.