IBL Booting from NOR

Martin Hantke

Intellectual 835 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MATHLIB, TMS320C6657, SYSBIOS

Hello Community,

after hours of searching i still have no solution of my problem.

I had to rebuild the whole project on new PC with Windows 10.

I have a C6657LE evm Board and use the following sw:

CCS V6

DSPLIB C66x 3.1.0.0

IPC 1.24.3.32

MathLib C66x 3.0.1.1

MCSDK PDK TMS320C6657 1.1.2.6

SYSBIOS 6.33.6.50

XDCtools 3.23.4.60

ndk_2_21_01_38

Now i debugged my Application and all was fine working.

I then tried to flash it to the NOR-Flash with the norwriter_evm_6657, but my code did not start.

IBL hangs with the following ConsoleOutput:

IBL Version: 1.0.0.15

IBL: Booting from NOR

I followed the instructions in BIOSMulticoreSDK_2.1_UserGuide.pdf and managed to run the given example "mcip-c66##-le.bin".

That means the example started up and worked in the console.

as Post-Built-Step in CCS Build i use:

C:\ti\ccsv6\tools\compiler\c6000_7.4.8\bin\strip6x.exe -o "${BuildArtifactFileBaseName}.bin" "${BuildArtifactFileName}"

to vonvert the .out-File to a .bin-File as i have read in the forum.

i always copy the bin-file manually to the norwriter location.

Does anyone has an answer to solve the problem?

Thx in advance for any suggestions

regards

Martin

over 10 years ago

0 Raja over 10 years ago

TI__Guru* 81335 points

Hi Martin,

I recommend you to confirm the NOR booting using the pre-built image available in MCSDK directory.

Thank you.

0 Martin Hantke over 10 years ago in reply to Raja

Intellectual 835 points

Hello Raja, many thanks for your answer.

I am not sure what you mean,

do you mean convert the hua-example to .bin and try to flash it to NOR?

Regards

Martin

0 Raja over 10 years ago in reply to Martin Hantke

TI__Guru* 81335 points

Hi Martin,
Please find the nor.bin from below path.
~\ti\mcsdk_2_0x_0x_0x\tools\program_evm\binaries\evm6657l

From my understanding, you can just rename your .out to .bin to flash it on NOR.
Build and Flash:
~\ti\mcsdk_2_0x_0x_0x\tools\boot_loader\examples\i2c\nor\docs\README.txt

Thank you.

0 Martin Hantke over 10 years ago in reply to Raja

Intellectual 835 points

Hello Raja,
i found the nor.bin
flashed it and the UBL hangs on "Booting from nor"

0 Martin Hantke over 10 years ago in reply to Martin Hantke

Intellectual 835 points

I have reset the board to its initial configuration as described in program_evm_userguide.pdf and will try again.
Many thanks again Raja

0 Martin Hantke over 10 years ago in reply to Martin Hantke

Intellectual 835 points

Last remark:
It is sufficiant to rename the .out file to .bin
my .out file was too big for the 4MB NOR-Flash, so i stripped the sw and flashed successfull.
Now my application runs with lesser functionality.
Regards Martin

0 Raja over 10 years ago in reply to Martin Hantke

TI__Guru* 81335 points

Yes. Your understanding is correct. The strip6x tool is used to strip the symbols from the image(reduce image size).

Thank you.

0 Raja over 10 years ago in reply to Martin Hantke

TI__Guru* 81335 points

I understand that you are able to boot from NOR flash.

What was the problem? How did you solve it?

Thank you.

0 Martin Hantke over 10 years ago in reply to Raja

Intellectual 835 points

Hello Raja,
problem was:
a) out-file too big
b) missunderstanding how to convert .out to .bin

Solution:
a) complete reset of the board to factory default
b) rebuild my application with lesser funktionality
c) renamed .out to .bin and flashed as described in the documents.

Meanwhile i am beyond these steps and programmed the Flash for usage with RBL, this works perfect with your help.
i used your example of 2630.spiboot_ddr.zip.

works fine for the smaller App.
now we are trying tio increase the out-filesize of b2i2c.exe :-)

Regards
Martin

0 Raja over 10 years ago in reply to Martin Hantke

TI__Guru* 81335 points

Hi Martin,

Sounds good. Thank you for the update and solution.

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