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CCS/MSP430F5514: Empty USB Project does not work

Gerry Kurz
Intellectual 685 points
Part Number: MSP430F5514
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP430WARE, MSP430USBDEVPACK

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

I have installed Code Composer 7:

I am referring to the MSP430 USB Programmer's Guide:

on page 24, installing Empty USB project:

In code composer resource explorer, there are no example projects:

In Resource Explorer Classic, there are two options, MSP430ware and MSPware. Neither match the Programmers Guide:

How do I get an Empty USB project as per the USB programmers guide?

Thanks,

Gerry Kurz

  • 0
    TI__Guru**** 212517 points
    Hi Gerry,

    Use Resource Explorer Classic if you would like resources which follow the USB Programmer's Guide, but you need to have MSP430Ware v3.8 installed instead of v1.4. You could also import a simple example from the non-classic version and remove the parts you do not require.

    Regards,
    Ryan
  • 0 in reply to Ryan Brown1
    Intellectual 685 points

    When I use CCS7 Resource explorer to install MSP430Ware, it wants to install it in C:/ti. I have chosen a different installation location for CCS7 and I want MSP430Ware to be installed there.

    If I try to change the product discovery path in the preferences menu by deselecting C:/TI, an message window flashed by too fast to read. Also the remove and edit buttons are greyed out.

    How do I install MSP430ware in another directory?

  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    TI__Guru**** 212517 points
    Have you tried to Check for Updates inside of CCS? Would you consider letting it install in C:\ti\msp430 before moving to another location, or downloading from the MSPWARE tools page and using the Install New Software feature in CCS?

    Regards,
    Ryan
  • 0 in reply to Ryan Brown1
    Intellectual 685 points

    I did all the updates before trying to install MSPWARE. And I did end up installing it manually. 

    However, neither version of the resource explorer shows the complete package especially the non-classic version which only shows the documentation.

    There are some issues with how this works with CCS7.

  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    Intellectual 685 points
    Is there a bug reporting process for CCS7?
  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    TI__Guru**** 212517 points
    Classic is only going to work with v3.7 or earlier. I'm not sure what the non-classic version chooses to show or not. If you would like to move forward with development then you could simply import projects from MSPWARE or MSP430USBDEVPACK without the assistance of the Resource Explorer.

    Regards,
    Ryan
  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    Intellectual 685 points
    Is there some way to get support faster than this process? Having to wait a day for answers to obvious bugs and documentation errors is very frustrating.

    So now I am trying to use the USB LED ON/OFF example. It is set up to use a 4 MHz crystal for XT2 and my system has an 8 MHz crystal. I have looked in the descriptor files for this and cannot find it. There is a place where it talks about it but no setting that I can see.

    I have run the MSP descriptor tool but it seems to only be able to generate a new descriptor file and not edit an existing one. Is this correct?
  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    Intellectual 685 points
    I did use classic to import the LED ON/OFF project and it seemed to work fine. It just doesn't display the documentation or the descriptor tool link.

    Should I be moving back to CCS6 for this development as it seems CCS7 has some serious bugs?
  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    TI__Guru**** 212517 points
    These issues deal with the Resource Explorer interface and MSPWARE options, not specifically the CCS design environment. It is not necessary to revert back to CCS6. The USB peripheral automatically detects the presence of a : 4, 8, 12, or 24 MHz crystal.

    Regards,
    Ryan
  • 0 in reply to Ryan Brown1
    Intellectual 685 points
    OK Thanks. I am going to reinstall CCS7 and let it put MSPWare in the default location as see what happens.....
  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    Intellectual 685 points
    I have reinstalled CCS7 and now the resource explorer will not let me download and installed msp430ware at all. I disagree with your assessment that these issues are not part of the CSS7 design environment, they are in fact making this product unusable for me. I have wasted days of effort to do what should be a relatively simple procedure (at least according to the documentation).

    Does anyone else have these issues? Is there not a way to get more direct support for what is obviously (to me) some serious issues with this product.
  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    TI__Guru**** 212517 points
    I'm going to loop in some Software experts to help address your issue. Until then I would suggest that you avoid the issue entirely by importing the projects into CCS directly and without using MSPWARE.

    Regards,
    Ryan
  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    TI__Guru**** 161585 points

    Gerry,

    As far as changing the default install dir in Resource Explorer you can do this. It won't let you remove a path if it is set as the Install folder. When you click on the button it will show a message at the bottom "Cannot remove default install path. Please add or select another folder as default before removing this one." Basically you need to add another path, make it the Install Folder. Then it will let you remove the old one. From then on all software package installations from Resource Explorer will go in the new folder you specified. I have it setup this way myself as I have a huge number of packages so I install them on an external drive that I can move between machines.  Note that this comment is for "Resource Explorer" vs "Resource Explorer Classic"

    Regards,
    John

  • 0 in reply to JohnS
    Intellectual 685 points

    Thanks Ryan for elevating this, I apologize for being somewhat frustrated last week.

    Part of the issue seems to be not installing CCS7 in the default location. I was doing this as my WIndows 7 partition was getting too full, so over the weekend I decided to deal with that. It was another exercise in frustrating and time consuming issues with cloning my Win7 partition to a new SSD however late Sunday I managed to get it done.

    So I reinstalled CCS7 in the default location and manually installed MSPWare in it's default location and now Resource Explorer can find most of MSPWare (still can't  find the Empty USB project though). I have imported the LED ON/OFF example project with Resource Explorer and this will get me going now.

    And John, thanks for your response. The issue I was having last week was that I chose to install CCS7 in a different directory from the default one. When I wanted to download and install MSPWare from Resource Explorer, it would not let me choose an install location and simply defaulted to C:/ti. When I opened the Product discovery path window, the only thing I could do was uncheck the C:/ti box. I could not remove or edit and path (the buttons are greyed out)

    So I just tried what you have suggested and I can add another path but there is no option to set it to default and the two default paths cannot be removed or edited.

    I now have the CSS7 tool set up using the default directories and I need to move on from this issue but there are some problems with installing CCS7 and the tools in locations other than the default ones.

    Regards,

    Gerry

  • 0 in reply to Gerry Kurz
    TI__Guru**** 161585 points

    Gerry,

    I am on my Mac at the moment so I apologize that the captures and paths are going to look a bit different from windows.

    There are a couple of different path settings for installing and discovering products.  There is the one in Resource Explorer which you can access from the "hamburger" button at the top left of Resource Explorer that looks like 3 stacked lines.  In this one you can specify where Resource Explorer should look for products and you can specify that one of them is the location to install new products that are downloaded from Resource Explorer.  This was the one I was referring to in my reply.  You can remove C:\ti from this one as long as you have another location setup at the install location.  On my windows machine I have D:\Software setup as my default install location and I have CCS installed in D:\Tools\CCSv<version>.

    Inside CCS there is also another discover path setup.  I think this may be the one you are looking at.  This one is accessed via the Preferences dialog box.

    This one is used by the CCS build system and other tools.  In this one you cannot remove the 2 default locations but can add additional ones.  However in your case you should not have to touch this one.  The previous dialog would setup where Resource Explorer installs items and it is supposed to communicate those locations to these settings and sync them up.  If it is not you can add additional locations.  For example in my case I would add D:\Software.  

    Regards,

    John

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