Flash MSP430F5437 with ez430-F2013

Thanks for the reply.

I've just updated my hardware from the MSP430F2274, which I was flashing using the ez430-F2013, to the MSP430F5437and I wasn't being able to flash it. So i though it was a problem with the harware.

Is it possible to upgrade the ez430-F2013 firmware to be compatible with the F5xx series, using the method you described at http://e2e.ti.com/forums/p/3229/11908.aspx#11908?

I've already purchased the MSP-FET430UIF just in case, but I have a couple of questions. How do I adapt the FET430UIF's JTAG intarface to my SBW interface?
I've found in the FET430UIF's user guide (page 26) a schematic, but I don't understand the J1, J2 connections. If my board does not need power from the FET430UIF's (it has is own power supply) do I connect the board's power supply to the pin 4 of the JTAG connector?

Regards, Pedro Silva  

you need to connect the following pins

ground

test

tdo/tdi

tck

capacitance on tdo/tdi must be 2.2nano  maximum

to monitor that the voltage is correct the targest vcc should be connected to pin 4 of the jtag interface (vcc target)

Yes, that is correct. The problem is, we do not have the proper firmware object code.

BTW, IAR (and/or other FET Tool chains) may offer to update the firmware. As far as I know, accepting that will always make the eZ430U sick.

Ok. Thank you both for the info.

Pedro

psilva1203 said:

Is it possible to upgrade the ez430-F2013 firmware to be compatible with the F5xx series, using the method you described at http://e2e.ti.com/forums/p/3229/11908.aspx#11908?

Yes that is the procedure, but we do not have the firmware that is compatible with F5xx.

Is there any tool available to program an MSP430F5xxx via sbw (spy-bi-wire)?

We like to switch from F2274 to F5418 (or similat 80 pin version) . All our development, production and service tools base on sbw. 

I use IAR KickStart and MSP-FET430UIF. They work in SBW as well as 4-wire-JTAG mode

Thank you for the hint. I used eZ430-F2013 and eZ430-RF2500 (Rev 2.0). Both failed on IAR and CCE. It seems the tools can not access the processor:Sat Jun 06 16:51:37 2009: Interface dll version 2.4.0.2 Sat Jun 06 16:51:44 2009: Fatal error: Failed to identify device On my prototype I see the VCORE is at 1.8V, Vcc at 3.6V, RST is high. So from the pins (double checked!) everything seems okay. Do you have any sugestion?

As far as I know, many USB port JTAG tools can handle F5xx tagets in both SBW and 4-wire modes. But the eZ430U JTAG tools cannot.

The parallel port  JTAG tools can only use 4-wire mode to handle F5xx tagets.