Black Hawk Mezz Crashes VM

Any ideas to help?

Hi,

Unfortunately I don't have either the board or the same VM, therefore I can only suggest a few things:

1. I would first check the low-level connection to the emulator by using either BlackHawk's Bh560v2 utility or the dbgjtag utility. This will perform a connection to the emulator and device at the lowest level possible and therefore allow you to check if the issue stems from the hardware/VM/device driver combination.
2. If the utility above performs the tasks successfully, I would then move on to connecting the device in steps, starting with the ICEPICK and moving on to each DSP core itself.  
3. If the step-by-step procedure works fine, I would then inspect additional details like VM's available memory and even CCSv5 heap allocation (using the -Xmx parameter).

The page below helps with topics 1 and 2 above. For 2, check the last note shown in step 4 of the topic Strategy for debugging JTAG connectivity problems.

http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Debugging_JTAG_Connectivity_Problems

Ideas to increase heap in CCS can be found at the following threads:

http://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/code_composer_studio/f/81/p/71303/258882.aspx#258882

http://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/code_composer_studio/f/81/p/112417/398902.aspx#398902

Hope this helps,

Rafael

I tried running BlackHawk's Bh650V2 utility, and it sits forever with the wait bar. If I cancel the wait, my VM crashes.