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Error connecting to target after installing CCS 4.2.4.0033

Yamini Harikrishnan
Prodigy 60 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP430F5438A

Hello, 

I am working on MSP430F5438A and I initially downloaded the limited code size Code Composer Studio. I managed to communicate with the board and had the LEDS flashing. As I was trying to install FreeRTOS, due to the code size restriction, I uninstalled the CCS free version and installed the 30 days CCS 4.2.4.0033 Platinum edition. But now when I am trying to communicate with the board, I get the following error

TI MSP430 USB1_0/MSP430

Error connecting to the target
Could not find the device(or device is unsupported).

I am using FET 430UIF to communicate with the MCU. Any help will be appreciated highly.

Thanks.

  • 0
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hi Yamini,

    Some very initial thoughts

    -has anything other than the installation changed?

    -did you select the MSP430 when doing the install?  (I assume this is the case)

    When you are in your MSP430 project.  If you go to Project-Properties->CCS Build.  What do you see under the Code Generation Tools version?

    -have you tried running an update?

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    Prodigy 60 points

    Hi Lisa,

    1) has anything other than the installation changed?

    AS far as I know nothing has changed. I am using the same workspace as I used for the CCS code size limited version. 

    2) did you select the MSP430 when doing the install?

    I did a platinum edition, so it installed for all the processors.

    3) When you are in your MSP430 project.  If you go to Project-Properties->CCS Build.  What do you see under the Code Generation Tools version?

    It says TI v3.3.3

    4) have you tried running an update?

    I tried running the updates but there are no updates for MSP430. There are updates Black Hawk which I chose to ignore at this stage. I am downloading the patch for  v.4.2.4.

    Is there anything which has gone wrong. Any help will be highly useful

    Regards

    Yamini


     

  • 0 in reply to Yamini Harikrishnan
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hi Yamini,

    it does sound ok to me.   One thing is that sometimes the tools have to individually be selected during the installation.  

    Did CCS ask to update the firmware on your FET?

    Do you have remnants of the previous installation on the computer?  One thing I forgot in my first post is that if you have remnants and folders from the previous installation, CCS does not like it if there are two different versions of some of the dlls.  Specifically MSP430.dll and HIL.dll.   Please check if you have varying versions of these on your computer.

    Please keep me informed ... also if the update to 4.2.4 gets things back in working order.

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    Prodigy 60 points

    Hi Lisa,

    I uninstalled the previous installation completely and then installed this new version. As per your suggestion I am looking for different versions of the dlls. 

    Regarding the FET firmware update- CCS didnt ask for any and my vague guess it could be the problem. As per your previous posts, I have gone to the Elprotronic site and trying to download. But the download is not happening in one stretch it stops after sometime.

    Do I need to give external power supply to the board. Right now the board is connected to the FET via JTAG which is connected to pc via USB. 

    Will let you know if it works.

    Regards

    Yamini

     

     

     

  • 0 in reply to Yamini Harikrishnan
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hi Yamini,

    I thought I would check in to see whether there are any updates with your enquiry/issue.

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    Prodigy 60 points

    Hi Lisa,

     

    I wanted to answer this query but I just couldn't find my own post. I solved by using an external powersupply and the board works now.

     

    Thanks

    Yamini

  • 0 in reply to Yamini Harikrishnan
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hi Yamini,

    ok, glad to hear.  All the best.

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    Prodigy 10 points

    Hi,

    I had the same issue that is being discussed at the begginning of this post. None of the things suggested here worked, or I was doing something wrong, but in the end I managed to fix it in the following manner:

    1.Installed CCS4 (that came with my ez430) on my PC

    2.When I launched debug it errored not being able to connect to target

    3. I installed CCS4 (from the same CD) on a different computer. On that computer it worked for some reason. Maybe because my PC had a lot of microcontroller software installed on it and the second computer had a more fresh Windows instalation (by the way it was XP on both machines)

    4. Copy the entire folder of CCS form Program files from the second computer and replace the one on the first computer

    5. And voila, I got it to work on the first computer as well

    Regards,

    Tiberiu