TMS320F28P650DK: Problems flashing CPU 2 with CCS

Stefan Rechtenbacher

Part Number: TMS320F28P650DK
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: SYSCONFIG

Hi Experts,

I am trying to flash and run a TI demoproject to a Control Card with the F28P65x device.

It is possible to flash, run and debug a single core demoproject (for example "led_ex1_blinky"). So the demoboard and connection to CCS is working in general.

But if I am trying to flash a Dual-Core project I get errors (see below) and the flashing breaks.

I use the dual core TI demoproject "led_ex2_blinky_sysconfig" here, but I also tried other projects with the same result.

It is possible to flash CPU 1 manually and this works without problems. But I am not able to flash CPU 2.

Do you have any idea what could be the problem?

Is there a special compile order for dual core projects (for example compile CPU 2 first and then CPU 1)?

What has to be done with the "multi project"? Has it to be compiled too?

Thank you

over 2 years ago

0 Vamsi Gudivada over 2 years ago

TI__Guru* 87155 points

Hi Stefan,

Before doing any flash operations using the flash plugin,

(a) Please select which flash banks should be mapped to which CPU (CPU1 vs CPU2) - This selection should be done in CPU1 flash plugin GUI.

(b) Please select the flash banks that they would like the flash plugin to erase (in the CPU1 flash plugin GUI and the CPU2 flash plugin GUI)

(c) Please configure the PLL using the Configure Clock button in CPU1 flash plugin GUI before doing any CPU2 flash plugin operations (including loading any executable to CPU2 flash).

Please try above suggestions and see if that helps to fix the issue.

Thanks and regards,

Vamsi

0 Stefan Rechtenbacher over 2 years ago in reply to Vamsi Gudivada

Prodigy 75 points

Hi Vamsi,

thanks for that hints, it helped.

But I would like to ask you for some more details to get a better understanding:

It is possible to do these settings for each (sub) project (CPU1, CPU2, multi) each time for debug probe for CPU1 and 2.

It has to be done for all of them?

What is the difference between flashing CPU1 project and flashing Multi project?

Something else I noticed:

1) If I want to flash CPU1 project I also have to change the debug configuration and set program for CPU2 to CPU2 project.

2)Is there a faulty setting in sysconfig? Shouldn't Boot mode of CPU 2 be set to "Boot from Flash Bank 3" instead of 0?

I see that CPU2 doesn´t startup without Debugger and I think this setting is the reason.

Thanks and regards,

Stefan

0 Vamsi Gudivada over 2 years ago in reply to Stefan Rechtenbacher

TI__Guru* 87155 points

Stefan,

Regarding the flash plugin settings: Do you mean to say you need project specific plugin settings file? If yes, we don't have such feature now.

I did not understand #1 you mentioned - please explain further with snapshots.

Please open a new post for the sysconfig/boot question.

Thanks and regards,

Vamsi

0 Stefan Rechtenbacher over 2 years ago in reply to Vamsi Gudivada

Prodigy 75 points

Hi,

Don't you make the settings here in the project properties?

Or what is the right way to make the settings?

Thanks and regards,

Stefan

0 Vamsi Gudivada over 2 years ago in reply to Stefan Rechtenbacher

TI__Guru* 87155 points

Hi Stefan,

I think it can be done for each sub project - let me loop in our CCS team to confirm/guide you further on this.

Thanks and regards,
Vamsi

+1 Ki over 2 years ago in reply to Stefan Rechtenbacher

TI__Guru**** 467091 points

Stefan Rechtenbacher said:
Don't you make the settings here in the project properties?

There are many places you can set these properties. Please see the below section in the User's Guide for more details:

https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/users_guide/ccs_debug-main.html#debug-properties

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