AM5718: EtherCAT/Profinet on IDK

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Dear Biser

We are still waiting for a answer/solution.

Best Regards

Christoph

I'm escalating the request.

Dear Manuel,

currently the focus from our side is to release software that works out of the box assuming a recent SW environment. As the Industrial Comms SW (and especially the examples provided) sit on top of other components we will always have such dependencies. However clearly it should be possible to change the environment with more or less effort. That is why we release most of the code as source. Special combinations of the currently independent releases will for sure require more dedicated support for the time being. Don't expect a working out of the box gateway product soon. There are just too many combinations and possibilities.

The small example projects provided usually use a minimum of resources to have some demo that also visualizes operation. We don't have even simpler examples but you should be able to remove unneeded components to a certain extent.

Best regards,

Dear Frank

 

We want to get Profinet and Ethercat working on our TMDXIDK5718. But the main Problem are the different SDK versions.

 

The new SDK 3.3.0.4 is slightly different from the recommended SDK for EtherCat-IDK (3.2.0). There was only one issue to setup the demo project for the EtherCat-IDK.

I had to adjust the include statement for the qspi_flash (at several places in the files). Then it was possible to compile it.

 

NEW-Code:

#include <ti/drv/spi/test/qspi_flash/src/Flash_S25FL/S25FL.h>

 

 

After startup the software is crashing. I don’t have any clue, why it is not working and I don’t find the mistake.

 

Here you can see the debug window:

The recommended SDK version for Profinet is much older (2.0.2). Several files changed and I don’t find the corresponding files in the SDK V3.3.0.4 to get the example running.

 

Here you can see a screenshot from the Profinet-Example:

Best regards

 

Christoph

During upload something went wrong.

Here are the pictures again:

The pictures don't make sense. You are running an EtherCAT slave example but show Profinet project folder...
Anyway if you are using CCSv7 instead of the recommended CCSv6 you may get newer versions of SysBios and XDCtools that are not compatible.

If you read it again, you will see we have two issues, we have an example project for Ethercat and one for Profinet.

First picture belongs to the EtherCat example and the second one to ProfiNet example.

Can you recommend a CCS and a SDK version, which is working for EtherCat-IDK and ProfiNet-IDK. I do not think it is possible, because every IDK needs another SDK version. That ist the problem we have, at the moment.

Dear Frank,

many thanks for your answer. I think we will not need an out of the box gateway example - we can do that on our own. In fact, we are just interested in ONE environment to do the development. I seriously hope that you guys can provide that for your development kits.

As I wrote, you recommend to use
- SDK 3.2.0, CCS 6.1.3, Compiler gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_9-2015q3 for PRU-ICSS-ETHERCAT-SLAVE
- SDK 2.0.2, CCS 6.1.2, Compiler gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2014q3 for PRU-ICSS-PROFINET-SLAVE

Can you provide ONE SDK/CCS/Compiler, which works for PRU-ICSS-ETHERCAT-SLAVE, AS WELL AS PRU-ICSS-PROFINET-SLAVE?

We would like to work on an EtherCAT-/Profinet project simultaneously and it is not possible to have installed both versions. It is also not practicable for us to install the proper versions every time depending on the current project. A possible workaround could be to develop the systems on different partitions, each with one recommended software version. I do not hope that is your final proposal.

Thanks for your help
and best regards,

Manuel

Hi Manuel, it is always recommendable to use latest PRU-ICSS package protocol, but I guess in this case you can try PRU_ICSS_EtherCAT_slave_01_00_00_00 which uses Processor SDK 2.0.2, CCS 6.1.2 and Linaro GCC ARM compiler gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2014q3

Thank you,

Paula