Compiler/TMS570LS3137: Can I generate only 1 MB Binary where as the compiler and linker generates 4 MB file

Hello,

The size of *.out file is much bigger than the size of binary file generated using the post command listed in your post. If the size of *.out file is 4MB, the size of *.bin file is smaller than 10%*4MB.

Hello , 

Thank you for explaining difference between .out file and .bin file . Our requirement is different as mentioned below.

Is there a method to have single linker script , so that this linker script working both for RELEASE and DEBUG . 

This will only be possible if we Can use the binary generation script tiobj2bin.bat to generate only 1MB required binary region file even if the .out file contains the ECC regions at 0xF040_0000

Our working model is as follows :

We are having 2 different builds but would like to use only one Linker script .

SECTION 1 )

BUILD NO 1) This build where we generate 1 MB BINARY file and provide it to Boot-loader for downloading to the FLASH AREA .

Our linker script is as in the SECTION 2 below

Post build Binary Creation script:-

I use the following script to generate a binary (*.bin) file from the *.out file in post build commend of ccs 

"${CCS_INSTALL_ROOT}/utils/bin/tiobj2bin.bat"  "${BuildArtifactFileName}"  "${BuildArtifactFileBaseName}.bin"  "${CG_TOOL_ROOT}/bin/ofd470.exe" "${CG_TOOL_ROOT}/bin/hex470.exe" "${CCS_INSTALL_ROOT}/utils/bin/mkhex4bin.exe"

in post-build command. It is working successfully fine if only we remove ECC at 0xF040_0000.

If we generate ECC at address 0xF040_0000 , the post-build command fail to generate binary file correctly i.e. creating a very big binary file about 4 GB size .we have FLASH code to load 1 MB part of code in internal FLASH memory i.e. 0x0000_0000 to  0x0010_0000. We do not need the ECC for binary file that we pass to the boot loader .

This is happening because tiobj2bin.bat will generate a binary file for continuous memory if address starts at 0x0000_0000 it will fill it with zero in binary file till 0xF040_0000 .

So we need that the tiobj2bin.bat generate only 1MB address range of FLASH information to the binary file . 

BUILD NO 2)  Second build is to DEBUG the source code with ECC checks enable while development in this build we are using as method mentioned in step 3. 

/* USER CODE END */

}

/* USER CODE BEGIN (4) */

/* Add an ECC {} directive describing the algorithm that matches the device */

ECC

{

algoL2R5F021 : address_mask = 0xfffffff8 /*Address Bits 31:3 */

hamming_mask = R4 /*Use R4/R5 build in Mask */

parity_mask = 0x0c /*Set which ECC bits are Even & Odd parity */

mirroring = F021 /*RM57Lx and TMS570LCx are build in F021*/

}

/* USER CODE END */