CCS/TMS320C5535: What is the recommended development environment for C55xx?

Hi Charles

C55x is definitely more in maintenance mode , there is no new collateral/software/tools refresh planned. Support is somewhat limited too. 

Having said that ..

On your queries

Primary and most upto date offering for c55x family including c5535 is the CSL 

1) Can someone recommend a the versions of CCS, toolchain, environment (libraries etc) that I should use?

The tool chain/environment for the CSL release I pointed to is specified in the release notes. Pasting here for quick reference

DSP/BIOS 5.42.00.07 and DSP/BIOS 5.42.02.10
CCS 7.3 or later
CGT for C5500 4.4.1
XDCTools 3.24.05.48
XDAIS 7.24.00.04
AERLIB for C55x CPU Rev 3.3 17.00.00.00
VOLIB for C55x CPU Rev 3.3 2.01.00.01

2) If SYS/BIOS is dead then what should I use instead?

BIOS5.42.x or bare metal / No OS. SYSBIOS is not supported on c55x and not in the roadmap to be supported either. 

3) Can someone please recommend where I can find some "How to" style documentation giving a walkthrough using more modern tools? I have a C5535 EZDSP as well as custom hardware with an Olimex XDS100V3.

Looks like the Olimex website does mention that it does support C55x. If you run into any issues you may need to contact Olimex.

For EVM , you can find the older collateral at the time of when this board was released the board vendor's website

However, the CSL examples maybe a better starting point, once you are past the EVM and creating code for your own board. 

My preferred host is Linux, but I should be able to work from Windows-based documents too.

CCS tools are available both in Linux and Windows. The CSL release package has both a windows and linux installer.

Thank you very much for this information so far. I appreciate that it is difficult to support obsolete hardware.

The Olimex XDS100V3 is a direct clone of the TI design (which TI no longer makes) and is actually one of the devices recommended on a TI website.

Based on that suggestion, I thought I would use CCS10 - that being the newest and thus, hopefully, have the best support. Unfortuantely the DSP/BIOS support seems to be broken. When I go into the App Centre and try to load DSP/BIOS, this tries to use a broken link

 which gives

The Spectrum service site is behind a login for which I lack a credentials. Unfortunately the when I contacted Spectrum they recommended I come to the TI forums instead.

Does TI not have any up to date how-tos on using their tools and processors?

Thank you very much

Charles

Hi Charles

Unfortunately some of these devices are not in the mix to be refreshed to the latest tool chain etc. 

On your BIOS issue, looks like you are right , the app center link is broken. I have requested to file a bug for it. I do not have the ETA on when it will get fixed. 

BIOS 5.4x is integrated with Eclipse based CCS (CCS10 included).  Support is pretty limited but build and ROV classic should work.

https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/DSP/BIOS_Support_in_CCS_Eclipse

You can instead download from here:

On Spectrum Digital , i think the guides I wanted to point to you are pretty old (2011 time frame) , so may not help you much anyways. 

I recommend using the CSL examples as the starting point. 

Hope this helps some.

Regards

Mukul 

Hello

I can not compile the project but it fails at tconf.

Building file: "../VC5505_CSL_BIOS_cfg.tcf"
Invoking: TConf Script Compiler
"/home/charles/ti/ccs1010/xdctools_3_61_02_27_core/tconf" -b -Dconfig.importPath="/home/charles/ti/bios_5_41_02_14/packages;/packages;" "../VC5505_CSL_BIOS_cfg.tcf"
subdir_rules.mk:10: recipe for target 'build-825271439-inproc' failed
/bin/sh: 1: /home/charles/ti/ccs1010/xdctools_3_61_02_27_core/tconf: not found
gmake[1]: *** [build-825271439-inproc] Error 127
gmake: *** [build-825271439] Error 2
subdir_rules.mk:7: recipe for target 'build-825271439' failed
gmake: Target 'all' not remade because of errors.

I see the release notes say:

<p>The legacy BIOS 5 <code>tconf</code> configuration utility has been
 removed along will all support for <code>.tcf</code> configuration
 scripts.</p>

So what do I do if my project uses tconf?

Hello 

I am going to be out this week , will see if someone else can help on this, but please see if the following post help

BIOS5 can be downloaded from the following link

 http://software-dl-1.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_sb/targetcontent/bios/dspbios/index.html

Regards
Mukul