Command line flasher and drivers under Windows 10

Hi George,

You are asking about MSP430-Flasher, correct? I will check with our tools team about the Windows 10 support - thanks for posting as this is an important question as windows 10 grows in popularity and usage.

For OSX: Which LaunchPad are you using? The older emulators do not have OSX support at all (even in CCS) but the newer ones do - see www.ti.com/.../slau647 MSP Debugger's Guide - you can see in the table 1. Debug Probes Features and Device Compatibility that only newer LaunchPads which have eZ-FET or eZ-FET Lite are supported on OSX (MSP-EXP430F5529LP, MSP-EXP430FR5969, and newer etc are supported, MSP-EXP430G2 is not). MSP430-Flasher lists OSX support, and there is an installer, however I see that usually the installer would point you to the stand-alone driver download (if you don't already have CCS or IAR installed - do you?) and looking at the standalone driver install page here: software-dl.ti.com/.../index_FDS.html I only see a Windows installer. So I'll ask the tools team about that as well.

Regards,
Katie

Katie Pier said:

The older emulators do not have OSX support at all

Not by TI, but there is/was solution by using mspdebug with modified OSX driver.

43oh.com/.../

forum.43oh.com/.../

I guess that OSX drivers (for FET's) related to MSP-DEBUG-STACK should be here...

http://www.ti.com/tool/mspds

George,

BTW, if you need faster flashing tool than there is my MSP-GANG like flasher, that is working on OS X (from Lion till Yosemite) using native OS X drivers (there is no need to install anything).

MacBook-Pro:~ $ flash -f test_msp430f5510.txt -p /dev/cu.usbmodem1d121 -e -w -v -mr

File: "test_msp430f5510.txt"
Address: 08000  Words: 16384
Size: 32768 bytes

Get Device
# JTID Fuse Device Core Hard Soft LotWafer DieX DieY
0  91   OK   3080  1104  30   10  B15B9446 2000 1700
1  91   OK   3180  1104  12   12  013BB046 2700 2E00
2  91   OK   3180  1104  12   12  013BB046 1200 1E00
3  91   OK   3180  1104  12   12  013BB046 0D00 1E00
4  91   OK   3180  1104  12   12  013BB046 2A00 2100
5  91   OK   3180  1104  12   12  34449346 2200 3600

Erase

Write
Time: 449 ms  Speed: 71.3 KB/s

Verify
Time: 315 ms  Speed: 101.6 KB/s

Marginal Read
Mode File  #0   #1   #2   #3   #4   #5
  0  9EF7 9EF7 9EF7 9EF7 9EF7 9EF7 9EF7
  1  9EF7 9EF7 9EF7 9EF7 9EF7 9EF7 9EF7
Time: 477 ms  Speed: 67.1 KB/s

Release Device

Total Time: 1350 ms

MacBook-Pro:~ $

Hi George,

Did this answer your question - were you able to get up and running on Windows 10 perhaps?

Regards,
Katie

Hi Katie. Thanks for the responses. Sorry to be so long answering, but I had to be away for a while. So let me be sure I understand. This would be for me and a number of others who have the Launchpad MSP-EXP430G2, and I believe everyone has v1.5 of that device. It looks like I installed from MSPFlasher-1_03_10_00-windows-installer.zip for the flasher, and from slac524.zip for the drivers on my XP machine. And you are saying that those do indeed also work on all subsequent Windows versions up through Win10.

As for OSX, that's not really relevant to me, but I just wanted to know in case anyone asked. If I understand correctly, at the moment there is no path to using OSX with the EXP430G2, except possibly using the 43oh USB stuff.

Thanks very much for running this down for me.

George

To confirm: I just got news back from the tools development team also confirming that the drivers have also been tested and work with Windows 10.

Regards,
Katie

Katie Pier said:

To confirm: I just got news back from the tools development team also confirming that the drivers have also been tested and work with Windows 10.

Regards,
Katie

Ok, that's great.  I expected as much, but just wanted to be sure.  Thanks very much for your help.