MSP430 Flasher - Command Line Programmer, MSP-FET430UIF, and MSP430F5438A

Ben Hagan

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP430F5438A

I am trying to use the Command Line Programmer (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_Flasher_-_Command_Line_Programmer) and a MSP-FET430UIF to program an MSP430F5438A.

I have not been able to do this yet -- after it tries to "initialize the interface on TIUSB port..." I keep getting errors such as

# Exit: 19

# ERROR 1014: Could not find MSP-FET430UIF on specified COM port

# Exit: 19

# ERROR 1014: Could not initialize device interface

Here are some of the commands I have tried:

MSP430Flasher.exe -n MSP430F5438A -w "Firmware.txt"

MSP430Flasher.exe -n MSP430F5438A -m JTAG -i USB -w "Firmware.txt" -v -z [VCC]

MSP430Flasher.exe -n MSP430F5438A -m JTAG -i COM6 -w "Firmware.txt" -v -z [VCC]

Has anyone been able to get around this? Oh one other thing -- the Windows device manager says that the FET is loaded on COM6.

over 13 years ago

0 Ben Hagan over 13 years ago

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I "fixed" the problem but I am not sure how. I was originally using MS Visual C++ Express 2010 on a Windows 7 machine when I had the problem. Then I switched to MS Visual Studio 2010 and I no longer had this issue.

One other note --- as the notes say, this program can only load .txt or .hex files. I only had .out files to work with initially. I didn't have a tool to convert the .out file to a .txt file, so I loaded the program from CCS, then used the Flasher to read the memory contents into a text file. Then I used this text file to load code into other processors.

0 Ben Hagan over 13 years ago in reply to Ben Hagan

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Here is the proper way to create a TI-TXT file in CCS or IAR:

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Generating_and_Loading_MSP430_Binary_Files

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