CCS6 MSP430 Hex Utility

Alexey Orishko

Intellectual 670 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: UNIFLASH

Does CCS6 MSP430 Hex Utility actually produce TXT file if selected output format "TI-TXT hex format"?

Is this a format needed for command line flasher or some other format will do?

In case yes, does it matter if extension is low or upper case?

/alexey

over 11 years ago

0 Leo Hendrawan over 11 years ago

TI__Guru 56650 points

Hi,

yes, the TI-TXT file format is a simple binary file representation of the generated firmware.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/intrepid/man5/srec_ti_txt.5.html

Most of the software programmer such as MSP430 Flasher, UniFlash, and Elprotronic Pro430 Lite accepts this file format.

The extension should not matter, since most of the software is running on Windows.

0 Alexey Orishko over 11 years ago in reply to Leo Hendrawan

Intellectual 670 points

Leo Hendrawan said:

The extension should not matter, since most of the software is running on Windows.

I wonder why MSP430Flasher.exe failed if capital letters (TXT) are used...

/alexey

0 vincent over 10 years ago in reply to Alexey Orishko

Prodigy 230 points

My fresh CCS6 does not have MSP430 HEX utility under project > properties > CCS build. Only MSP430 Compiler and Linker are shown. I have added all MSP430 related stuff from install and checked all updates. How to get it to be able to produce txt files?

0 Dennis Eichmann over 10 years ago in reply to vincent

Guru 74080 points

You do not have this option?

This does not even belong to the "advanced settings" and is visible all the time.

Dennis

0 vincent over 10 years ago in reply to Dennis Eichmann

Prodigy 230 points

No, I do not have even the menu choice "MSP430 Hex utility" on the left .

0 Dennis Eichmann over 10 years ago in reply to vincent

Guru 74080 points

That is interesting. I do not know if you could choose things like that not to be installed during the installation process. I have never seen it and always had the HEX utility in the properties window. But the other stuff is present?

0 vincent over 10 years ago in reply to Dennis Eichmann

Prodigy 230 points

Yes - I think. Re-installing now.

0 Dennis Eichmann over 10 years ago in reply to vincent

Guru 74080 points

Maybe CCS expert Gautam Iyer has an idea?

Dennis

0 RobG over 10 years ago in reply to Dennis Eichmann

Prodigy 140 points

Speaking of Hex Utility.

I added new address space and new section to my linker cmd file. The idea is to put all functions from flash3functions.c @ 0x4800, the rest (main, c_init, isr) at the usual @0x4400 address.

FLASH    : origin = 0x4400, length = 0x0400
FLASH3 : origin = 0x4800, length = 0xB780

.text       : {}>> FLASH   
.text:_isr  : {} > FLASH 
.text:  { flash3functions.obj(*) } > FLASH3

Everything looks (out file) and runs fine except TI-TXT file created by Hex Utility, it is missing FLASH section @0x4400. The only sections I see in txt file are .text_isr @0x44dc, flash3 section @0x4800, and isr vectors @0xffd2. When I remove FLASH3, txt file looks good.

Any ideas? Is it my config or is it hex utility?

0 Dennis Eichmann over 10 years ago in reply to RobG

Guru 74080 points

So the HEX utility works now?

0 RobG over 10 years ago in reply to RobG

Prodigy 140 points

Found the answer to my problem, I have to use named section.

.sect "usrsect"  { flash3functions.obj(*) } > FLASH3

0 Vincent Halde over 8 years ago in reply to vincent

Prodigy 120 points

Hi Vincent,
Have you found how to include the MSP430 HEX utility on CCS6?
Thank you,
Vincent (this will be confusing...)

0 vincent over 8 years ago in reply to Vincent Halde

Prodigy 230 points

Hi! No, I do not have a solution for this. Have used alternative solutions.

Rgds,

-vincent

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