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CCS/TMS320C6711D: Building a new project using DSP/BIOS v 5.42.01.09 with CCS v8.0.0

Part Number: TMS320C6711D


Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

I am attempting to build a new empty project with DSP/BIOS 5.42.2.10, CCS8 and C6000 7.4.24 compiler.  I am using a c6x1x.cdb seed file from the previous/associated thread here: https://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/tms320c6000_high_performance_dsps/f/115/t/436998 

I am getting the following build errors with the empty project (main.c)

"test8cfg.s62", ERROR!   at line 884: [E0003] Invalid constant specification
        TSK_Obj 1, TSK_idle, 0, _iFXN, _iARG0, _iARG1, _iARG2, _iARG3, _iARG4, _iARG5, _iARG6, _iARG7, _iAUTOSTK, _iMANSTK, _iSTKSZ, _iSTKSEG, _iPRI, _iENV, _iEXITFLAG, _iUSETSKNAME, _iSTATREG, _Order, _filter, _maxformat, _sumformat, _avgformat, _filtmaxmult, _filtsummult, _unittype

The workaround I found is to modify the c6x1x.cdb (or intermediate .s62) to change avgformat :: "%.2f" to avgformat :: "%g".

My question is, is this a valid workaround? Is there a newer .cdb seed I could use or am I doing something wrong?

These are the steps to recreate the issue

0. Install DSP/BIOS 5.42.01.09,CCS8, C6000 compiler and moving c6x1x.cdb to bios_5_42_01_09\packages\ti\bios\config\cdb),

1. File ->New CCS Project

2. New Empty Project (with main.c): Target: C671x Floating Point DSP, TMS320C6711. Compiler version TI v7.4.24 (last support for C6711)

3. After project creation, select the project

4. File ->New DSP-5.4 BIOS Configuration file; Next

5. Selection ti.platforms.sim67xx  (note: also same issue with DSK6713)

6. Select all features (note: also same issue with different features selected); Finish

7. Specify XDC tool directory (e.g. example C:\ti\bios_5_42_02_10\xdctools)

8. Enable XDC tools

9. Rebuild Project

Note I also see that I have XDC tools 3.50 and 3.32 installed in CCS (Installed products), not sure if that makes a difference even though I specify the DSP/BIOS XDCtools path on the conversion.