I'm looking to test the CAN bus bootloader for the TMS570LS12x MCU (from http://www.ti.com/lit/zip/spna186) on a TMS570LS1224 Hercules Development board with the Cortex R4F MCU and I had a few questions on how best to go about doing that.
I saw that there's sample test code present here: http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/TMS570_Hercules_MCU_Bootloader . If I'm understanding it correctly, in order to use that code as-is with my development board, I need to have some sort of a NI CAN interface device/adaptor, is this correct?
I don't have any interface devices and am wondering if it's possible/advisable to attempt testing this without an interface device by using a second board, connecting that second board to the TMS570LS1224 board via CAN, and modifying the sample test code to load application code to the TMS570LS1224 through the second board. If this isn't advisable, do you know of any alternative methods to test out the bootloader code?
