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CCS5.1 m8.5 Fails to Upgrade FET Firmware

incoherent
Intellectual 350 points

While attempting to debug a project with CCS v5.1 m8.5 for the first time with my MSP430FETUIF, CCS gave this message even though only one FET was connected:

Error initializing emulator:
Only one MSP430 device can be accessed at a time per each CCS process. Please start another instance of CCS for accessing the second FET, or reconfigure your Target Configuration file.

The same behavior was seen on a second machine also running m8.5.

I took a look at the MSP430.dll v3 wiki, but the referenced command-line utility does not seem to be installed with m8.5.

Can someone point me to the command-line v2-v3 updgrade utility?

 

  • 0
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hello,

    this is something I have not seen but am going to try to reproduce.

    M8.5 should come with the v3 dll for the MSP430 that I understand.

    May I ask

    - what do you see in your device manager?

    - do you have other versions of CCS installed?   Where you previously using the FET without problem?

    - do you notice any lingering tasks etc in the task manager?  

    - Have you seen this wiki?  http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430.dll_v3

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hello,

    I was able to generate the same message/error you see.


    Basically from what I can see so far it seems you have the v2 dll installed and this is the issue. 

    What you need to do is the following

    - download the upgrade/downgrade utility from the wiki page you seem to be familiar with and I put in these posts

    http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430.dll_v3

    Please run it and then try again.  Once I upgraded my FET, I was still asked by 5.1 M8.5 to update the firmware, but it was successful and my FET then worked with both v5 and v4.

     

    If you can not do this without having v4 installed or do not have v4 please let me know.  

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    Intellectual 350 points

    Lisa,

    I downloaded the file marked "Binary/Executable (.zip) - Supports CCSv4.2 and newer " and tried it, however it would not install unless I tricked it by creating a ccsv4 folder under Program Files/Texas Instruments, but even so, it would not run without HIL.dll.

    I assume that the dll is part of CCS v4 which is not currently installed.

    Regards,

    --Mike

  • 0 in reply to incoherent
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hello,

    yes, I am just about to file a bug.

    You found the correct software to upgrade the FET so it will work with the CCS v5.1 M8.5 ... however you have also discovered, as I did, that the software requires that you have CCC v4 installed on the computer.

    For the moment, as I am literally just raising a gigantic red flag here and filing a bug etc, all I can advise is to download v4 (you can have both on your pc without a problem), download the upgrade/downgrade utility from the wiki and do the upgrade to get things running on 5.1.

    Please keep me posted. 

    Best REgards,

    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to incoherent
    Intellectual 350 points

    I brought in an older USB FET and CCS v5.1 m8.5 successfully upgraded it to the v3 DLL, but the newer FET last used with 5.1 M7 failed.

    --Mike

  • 0 in reply to incoherent
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hi Mike,

    yeah I am not sure if M7 was already shipping with the v3 dll and firmware so it would make sense if that FET had the v2 version of things on it and therefore is problematic.

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hi Mike,

    I have already had feedback that the team seems to be aware of the issue, which will be fixed in a coming release.  Hopefully the next one!  A stand alone version of the upgrade/downgrade utility is hopefully also going to be coming.

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    Prodigy 20 points

    I'm glad to hear a fix for this is in the works, I spent a bit of the past two days on this myself.

  • 0 in reply to Andy Zolyak
    Intellectual 350 points

    CCS v5.1.08012 spontaneously stopped talking to my v3 DLL FET yesterday, so I tried downgrading it to V2, but I ran into the above issue and it failed to upgrade back to the v3 DLL.

    But...

    I upgraded to CCS v5.1.08020 and it upgraded the FET with no problem.

    Great work Lisa!

    Thanks again!

    --Mike