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CCS/TMS320F28377S: JTAG emulator for 28Fxxx software development and test

MiaooaiM
Intellectual 465 points
Part Number: TMS320F28377S

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

Hi, I'using a XDS510 USB to debug firmware on a 2837XS and 28334 devices.

By now I virtualized the Xp OS machine where I have the CCS3.3 used for the 334 device and also virtualized the Win10 machine where I have the CCS7 used to develop the 37xS device.

The host computer is a i7 with 24GB RAM and W10 OS.

In this situation when I connect to the external board using the XDS510USB often I loose the communication with the microprocessor and I have to reflash the device to return in trace debug mode.

I think that the XDS510 drive has some problem when run in a virtualized machine.

At this point, also seen that the 64bit driver for the XDS510 will never  be done, I'm thinking to buy a Ethernet based device (hope that this bus will be more realible than the USB).

Which is in your exprerience the best cost effective device that I can buy? I'm seeing the XDS220 Ethernet device. Is it a good choiche for a 500Euro target price?

Regards

Giuseppe

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    TI__Guru**** 421380 points

    Hello Guiseppe,

    MiaooaiM said:
    I think that the XDS510 drive has some problem when run in a virtualized machine.

    Which XDS510USB are you using (which vendor) and which virtualization environment?

    the Spectrum Digital XDS510USB had issues with older versions of VMware. But later version of VMware seemed to work ok. Blackhawk XDS510 USB probes also worked ok with VMware (though apparently there are issues with VirtualBox).

    MiaooaiM said:
    At this point, also seen that the 64bit driver for the XDS510 will never  be done

    Various XDS510 probes are supported by current versions of CCS. There are 64-bit drivers for those.

    I also think Spectrum Digital and Blackhawk has 64-bit drivers for some of their XDS510 probes for CCSv3.3

    MiaooaiM said:
    Which is in your exprerience the best cost effective device that I can buy? I'm seeing the XDS220 Ethernet device. Is it a good choiche for a 500Euro target price?

    XDS220 would certainly fit the bill for an Ethernet enabled probe with similar speed performance as the XDS510 for under 500 Euros. The other probe that comes to mind is the XDS110. It has roughly half the performance of the XDS200 class emulators but it is under 100 Euros. But it does not have an ethernet option either so if ethernet is a must, then the XDS220 is the best bet.

    Note that both XDS110 and XDS220 do not support CCSv3 as both require recent versions of CCS.

    Thanks

    ki

  • 0 in reply to Ki
    Intellectual 465 points

    Hi Ki,

    thank you for your reply.

    The XDS510USB is from Spectrum Digital and the virtualization enviroment is VmWare latest version.

    I read in the Wiki thak the XDS510 will not be supported into the next major release of the CCS. I don't know if this is true.

    I want to change to Ethernet device bacause I had ever a lot of problem with the USB device, and in my personal opinion these device are not reliable expecially in the field use.

    I'm sorry to read that the XDS220 is not supported by the CCS3 but this is not a real problem because I can update the old project and use it with CCS7.

    Thank you

    Giuseppe

  • 0 in reply to MiaooaiM
    TI__Guru**** 421380 points

    MiaooaiM said:
    The XDS510USB is from Spectrum Digital and the virtualization enviroment is VmWare latest version.

    This *should* work. I have used this environment in the past successfully

    MiaooaiM said:
    I read in the Wiki thak the XDS510 will not be supported into the next major release of the CCS. I don't know if this is true.

    If you are referring to the deprecation notice on the v7 page, this applies to Mac and Linux host OS as CCS is a 64-bit application for those. CCS Windows will remain 32-bits for the near future. However we have tentative plans to move to 64-bits on Windows also and when that happens, it is true that the deprecation notice will apply for Windows.

    MiaooaiM said:
    I want to change to Ethernet device bacause I had ever a lot of problem with the USB device, and in my personal opinion these device are not reliable expecially in the field use.

    USB is pretty reliable outside a VM environment. But of course this is all preference. Ethernet certainly has its advantages

    Thanks

    ki