Tool/software:
Hello,
Does the XDS510PP emulator support the TMS320VC5410A DSP chip?
Tool/software:
Hello,
Does the XDS510PP emulator support the TMS320VC5410A DSP chip?
The XDS510 class of emulators do support the C5000 family of devices. The PP suffix indicates that it connects via the Parallel Port of a PC. While I did not find the XDS510PP specifically mentioned, I did find, on the old Spectrum Digital website, that the XDS510PP Plus supports the C54xx devices.
Installing drives/software for the XDS510PP Plus on a PC may be a challenge.
--Paul
Can I flash the software to the DSP IC using SDflash? Do you know about that?
I'll loop in our software team to see if they can help answer this.
--Paul
Hi Samet,
I looked it up, the C5410A does not support MMC/SD, therefore if you try to use SDFlash to flash the application program to SD card, then it is not possible.
In general, the C5410 does not have any non-volatile memory (flash memory or EEPROM) on chip, therefore any non-volatile memory has to be on board (not on chip). To flash your application program into the non-volatile memory should be board specific. The flash programmer should be board specific too.
Best regards,
Ming
Hi Ming, Yes, that's true. There's an external flash chip and microcontroller on the board. However, because the DSP C5410A has a Serial EEPROM, there's also software built into the DSP. I connected to it with the XDS510-USB Emulator, read the software, and saved it to my computer with the .out extension. I learned from a friend that XDS510PP is needed to load this software onto a new IC (C5410A). I'm trying to find out from here whether the XDS510PP is compatible with loading the software onto a new IC.
Hi Samet,
The XDS510-USB and the XDS510PP should work the same way on C5410A. The only difference is the interface (USB vs PP). If you can connect to the DSP core using the XDS510-USB, then you can flash the saved EEPROM image onto the new IC.
Keep in mind, the EEPROM image is in HEX format (*.bin not *.out). To flash it into the new IC's EEPROM (assume it is C5410A), you will need an EEPROM programmer (*.out file), load and run it on C5410A, it will read the EEPROM image from your PC, then write it onto the new IC's EEROM.
Best regards,
Ming