TMS320F240PQ, SDFLASH CONNECTION ISSUE -- PART 2--

5v on J1

Tried both RS-232 cable and null modem cable on DB9 connector

Able to connect to the board with the P5 connector using the XDS560 PCI card + pod cable. Using CCS 3.3. 

Nick,

     Reading through your post, I am not sure if your issue is resolved or if you need help.

Still need help, just showing the setup.

That software seems to be more setup for XDS510PP.

I'm starting to think the new chips we have are totally blank. Do you have the code to reload these using the XDS560 and CCS? Or can that program only read?

That got us in the right direction. Thank you!

I'm using the 510pp, windows 98 and it connected.

I was able to run these successfully.

BC0
BE0
BP16k

I changed the .out file in bp16k to Sfpe_b.out and Sfusr_b.out they programmed successfully.

switched JP6 to positon 1/2
Ran io_test.bat from the ser240 folder
Connected on com 1 with an rs-232 cable.
It doesn't detect the evaluation board.

What .out file should we be loading to the chip to enable serial communications?

Thanks so much for the feedback on this.

Still having issues. Any suggestions?

Hi Nick, Hareesh will be OOO for the remainder of the year.  Unfortunately, we don't have any other experts who are familiar with this device.  I appreciate your patience as we wait for him to return. 

Hello Hareesh,

I hope you had a nice vacation. Do you have any updates on this?

Nick,

    I will take a look at this today.

Nick,

    You haven't answered my two questions:

Hareesh Janakiraman said:

Do you see some code from 00 to FF in the program space after programming the Flash?

If so, it indicates that Sfusr_b.out got programmed in the Flash correctly. You can even check if the BIO  pin is checked in the first few instructions. There should be some instruction like BCND xxxxx, BIO. If you see that, we can almost be certain that the serial bootloader got programmed correctly in the Flash. That boot loader is essential if you want to program the Flash using the SCI.

Hareesh Janakiraman said:

I think the flash loader expects to see BIO pin to be 0 in order to execute the loader.

Did you tie the BIO pin low on your board? Otherwise, the bootloader may not get executed.

No, this doesn't look like valid code. It is some junk. 

Do you see some code from 00 to FF in the program space after programming the Flash?

-Yes see attached.

BCND, I do not see 

NO, I didn't tie the BIO pin low

As I mentioned in my previous post, this is not valid code. I am afraid the flash serial loader did not get programmed in the Flash.

BIO pin was set low, then then the following was done.

BC0

BE0

BP16K.bat

[prg2xxpp -p 378 -m 0x006 -w 6 src\c2xx_btx.out Sfusr_b.out ]

This completed successfully, but the attached screenshot is the error when trying to connect to code composer. I left BIO low, and high both got an error

I tried io_test.bat to check serial coms and it is unable to connect

-BIO pin being low only has relevance when you want to invoke the (already programmed) Flash serial loader. It has no relevance in terms of connecting to the device or CLEAR/ERASE/PROGRAM operation of flash through the JTAG debug probe.