TMS320F28069M: I2C With Motorware

Tool/software:

I have a LaunchXL-F28069M Launchpad and a DRV8301 motor driver and I have successfully made the motor spin using proj10d in motorware.  I also have a CC2640R2 Bluetooth board receiving joystick data and I want to relay this data to the Launchpad F28069M through I2C.  I have tested the I2C pins from the CC2640R2 and verified that the data is coming out as expected from that board.  I have looked at the I2C_eeprom example in the SimpleLink C2000 sdk and tried to implement the same logic in the project 10d, but have had no success.  I set all the appropriate registers similar the eeprom example, but when I look at the registers they do not have the values I set.  I am not sure what I am doing wrong.  Maybe there is something that is getting reset.  I'm not sure.  I am trying to use pins 32 and 33 of the f28069m board.  Any help on remedying my issue would be greatly appreciated.

In the main function of proj10d, the Hal_setparams() is called and in turn calls Hal_setupGpios().  In this function I added code to imitate the same registers that were set in the i2c_eeprom example

I can see there was an i2c.h in the proj10d project.  So I created an i2c.c file and initialized the i2c registers once again imitating the i2c_eeprom example and I call this just before the infinite loop that runs the motors

void I2C_init() {
    //
       // Initialize I2C
       //
       I2caRegs.I2CSAR= 0x0050;     // 7-bit Slave address
       I2caRegs.I2CPSC.all = 6;    // I2C clock between 7Mhz-12Mhz
       I2caRegs.I2CCLKL = 38;      // Prescalers set for 100kHz bit rate
       I2caRegs.I2CCLKH = 38;      // At a 10Mhz I2C clock
       I2caRegs.I2CIER.all = 0x0;      //Disable Interrupts
       I2caRegs.I2CEMDR.all = 0X0020;  // Take I2C out of reset

       return;
}

However, when I run the program the registers are not set.