AM437x Industrial Development Kit

Hello Biser,

I have those guides and I've installed CCS6 and the sysbios_ind_sdk_2.1.1.2

What I'd like to do is get a motor control example up and running on one of the PRU units of the part. In particular an FOC (field oriented control) example. I'm not having much luck. I found such an example in one of the directories and tried to import it, but it wouldn't build.

Then I tried to access examples directly through the CCS6 interface, but there are more problems there, plus I don't see a motor control example. I'm going through a window called "TI Resource Explorer". Thre's a tree in the left panel with major categories as follows:

MSP430war
SYS/BIOS
System Analyzer (UIA Target)

Under the latter two I see an entry for AM473x - Cortex A8

Opening that up I see some examples. Both have a sub directory called IDK_437X, and under there Cortex A and Cortex M


Why are there no ARM9 examples?
I see a "Hello" example buried in there but no motor control examples. Why?

When I try to use the "TI Resource Explorer" to import the project I get an error that says:

RTSC Configuration Settings

"None of the currently selected products supplies value for the Target. Please specify the Target manually, or try using a pre-3.30 version of the XDCtools"

I'm having no luck finding a set of instructions that can get me to my goal of getting any example, let alone an FOC motor control example up and running. Can you help me?

Thanks

Hello Biser,

I found a "motor_control" example which includes an "foc" subdirectory in my C:\ti\ subfolders, and I was able to import that as a project using CCS6. Here are the results of attempting to build it:


**** Clean-only build of configuration am437x_debug for project motor_control ****

"C:\\ti\\ccs613\\ccsv6\\utils\\bin\\gmake" -k clean
DEL /F "motor_control.out" "configPkg\linker.cmd" "configPkg\compiler.opt" "motor_control.hex"
RMDIR /S/Q "configPkg\"
DEL /F "main.d" "driver_endat\endat_drv.d" "driver_sddf\sddf.d" "foc\adc.d" "foc\foc.d" "foc\foc_pwm.d"
DEL /F "main.o" "driver_endat\endat_drv.o" "driver_sddf\sddf.o" "foc\adc.o" "foc\foc.o" "foc\foc_pwm.o"
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\motor_control.out
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\configPkg\linker.cmd
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\motor_control.hex
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\main.d
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\driver_endat\endat_drv.d
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\driver_sddf\sddf.d
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\foc\adc.d
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\main.o
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\driver_endat\endat_drv.o
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\driver_sddf\sddf.o
Could Not Find C:\_TI_projects\ccs6\pru_foc\motor_control\am437x_debug\foc\adc.o
'Finished clean'
' '

**** Build Finished ****

**** Build of configuration am437x_debug for project motor_control ****

"C:\\ti\\ccs613\\ccsv6\\utils\\bin\\gmake" -k all
'Building file: ../app.cfg'
'Invoking: XDCtools'
"C:/ti/ccs613/xdctools_3_31_03_43_core/xs" --xdcpath="C:/ti/bios_6_35_01_29/packages;" xdc.tools.configuro -o configPkg -t gnu.targets.arm.A9F -p ti.platforms.evmAM437X -r debug -c "C:/ti/ccs613/ccsv6/tools/compiler/gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q3" "../app.cfg"
subdir_rules.mk:7: recipe for target 'configPkg/linker.cmd' failed
js: "C:/ti/ccs613/xdctools_3_31_03_43_core/packages/xdc/tools/Cmdr.xs", line 51: Error: xdc.tools.configuro: Error: Can't find the platform package 'ti.platforms.evmAM437X'. TI platforms are no longer shipped as part of XDCtools (C:\ti\ccs613\xdctools_3_31_03_43_core). Please ensure you are either using a pre-3.30 version of XDCtools or you have added a product that includes your platform support along the path 'C:/ti/bios_6_35_01_29/packages;C:\ti\ccs613\xdctools_3_31_03_43_core/packages'. Check that this path names a directory containing the necessary platform support and that the platform name is properly spelled.
gmake: *** [configPkg/linker.cmd] Error 1
gmake: Target 'all' not remade because of errors.

**** Build Finished ****


What do I need to do to correct this problem? A red x appears on the am437x_debug directory in the left hand tree when I try the above.

I have notified the ISDK team. They will respond here.