Texas Instruments Fusion Digital Power Designer command line programs

John Miller74140

When typing FusionConfigWriter at he command line I get this error:

Unhandled Exception: System.TypeLoadException: Method 'aje' in type 'ConfigWriteTool.a' from assembly 'FusionC onfigWriter, Version=1.8.37.21739, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' does not have an implementation.

Also It puts up a GUI pop up saying "FusionConfigWriter has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

Any clue why this doesn't work?

over 14 years ago

0 Eric Wright over 14 years ago

TI__Mastermind 42795 points

This was a bug in an older version of the GUI. The latest at http://www.ti.com/fusiongui is fine.

0 John Miller74140 over 14 years ago in reply to Eric Wright

Prodigy 60 points

Eric Wright said:

This was a bug in an older version of the GUI. The latest at http://www.ti.com/fusiongui is fine.

I am using the version you pointed to and that's where I'm having my problems.

I'm also having problems with FusionFirmwareDownload.

C:\Program Files\Texas Instruments Fusion Digital Power Designer\bin>FusionFirmwareDownload --state rom
FusionFirmwareDownload: Could not load type 'DataFlashMode' from assembly 'TIDP.PMBus, Version=1.8.51.23492, C
ulture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
FusionFirmwareDownload: exiting due to error

0 John Miller74140 over 14 years ago in reply to John Miller74140

Prodigy 60 points

Now I have the latest software. Which is Fusion SW rev 64 by the way.

Now I get a new error.

C:\Documents and Settings\johnm>FusionFirmwareDownload --state auto --address 126 --rom-password **[DELETED]**--pflash download --dflash downloa
d --pflash-checksum none --execute-program --infile R:\Arista\Sliverado\TI\UCD90120A-64.x0
Found UCD30xx ROM at address 11
Reading PKGID version ...
FusionFirmwareDownload: Firmware Download Error; device did not pass factory trim check: Info block integrity 65535 is not valid; firmware h
as not been downloaded and the program flash checksum has been cleared on the device; any program present will NOT automatically start when
the device is reset
FusionFirmwareDownload: exiting due to error

Can you tell me why the "factory trim check" failed?

**DELETED the password. We are looking into this

0 Eric Wright over 14 years ago in reply to John Miller74140

TI__Mastermind 42795 points

Are these devices on a board already, or loose? Is there another means to communicate with these parts over the PMBus so that one of the other tools could double check the error you got?

FYI, we just tried on known good parts here and the tool programmed fine.

0 John Miller74140 over 14 years ago in reply to Eric Wright

Prodigy 60 points

These part are already on a target board. We have no other way to verify these parts. The parts are working fine. We just need to program parts in production with upgraded firmware and data. I have verified that I get the same errors from the comand line program and the GUI "download firmware" under the tools tab.

0 Michael Muegel over 14 years ago in reply to John Miller74140

TI__Prodigy 180 points

John, others are looking into the device issue you are having. I did add an option to the FusionFirmwareDownload cmd line tool that will not exit on error in the device has not been trimmed. You normally DO NOT want to do this in a production setting. But if this helps speed up your factory/other process development to get past this current issue, feel free to enable this mode.

Just download this Beta release:

http://www.tifusiontools.com/TI-Fusion-Digital-Power-Designer-1.8.66.exe

And then add the --no-trim-ok option.

Again, this option should only be used temporarily while the TI team looks into your issue.

-Mike