CODECOMPOSER: Running Code Composer Studio on an non-internet connected computer

joe lindula

Part Number: CODECOMPOSER
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSPM0L2228-Q1, MSPM0-SDK, UNIFLASH, SYSCONFIG, MSP-ZERO-CODE-STUDIO, ARM-CGT

Tool/software:

Hello, my work computer does not have a internet connection. How can I configure CCS to run without an internet connection? What extra packages do I need to download? I just downloaded the offline installer and tried to create a new project and was not able to create a new project. Can anyone help me please.

Thank you very much,

Joe

2 months ago

0 Ki 2 months ago

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Hello Joe,

CCS does not require an internet connection to run. However, you will lose some functionality without one such as checking for updates, installing plugins/extensions, browsing online examples with Resource Explorer, etc.

joe lindula said:
and tried to create a new project and was not able to create a new project.

This leads me to believe that you are using CCS 20. The CCS 20 project wizard relies on internet access to browse examples online. If you do not have internet access and do not have any SDKs installed locally, then you will need to manually import existing examples on your local machine. You can download the SDK for your device on a machine with internet access and then manually import examples from it.

See: https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/users_guide_ccs/ccs_getting-started.html#creating-a-new-code-composer-studio-project

Thanks

0 joe lindula 2 months ago in reply to Ki

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Hello, thank you very much for responding to post. I'm interested in doing a design with the MSPM0L2228-Q1 which can be found at:

https://www.ti.com/product/MSPM0L2228-Q1#software-development

Would I need to download the "MSPM0-SDK — MSPM0 Software Development Kit (SDK)"?

Is that what you are referring to about download the example software?

I see some other things to download such as MSP-ZERO-CODE-STUDIO, SYSCONFIG, MSP-GANG-SOFTWARE and UNIFLASH. Do I need to download any of these packages?

Last, I have a question about JTAG programmers. I have a Spectrum Digital XPO_1402056 XDS560v2 Pro Trace will this work as a JTAG programmer? What other JTAG programmers could I use to program this microcontroller?

Thank you very much,

Joe

0 Ki 2 months ago in reply to joe lindula

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joe lindula said:
Would I need to download the "MSPM0-SDK — MSPM0 Software Development Kit (SDK)"?

If you don't have internet connection, then you will need to download the SDK manually from another PC with internet access and then copy the installer over to the PC you wish to use it on (that does not have internet access):

https://www.ti.com/tool/MSPM0-SDK

joe lindula said:
Is that what you are referring to about download the example software?

Yes

joe lindula said:
I see some other things to download such as MSP-ZERO-CODE-STUDIO, SYSCONFIG, MSP-GANG-SOFTWARE and UNIFLASH. Do I need to download any of these packages?

It depends on your use case. As a new user, I don't anticipate you need these now. CCS comes with SysConfig.

joe lindula said:
Last, I have a question about JTAG programmers. I have a Spectrum Digital XPO_1402056 XDS560v2 Pro Trace will this work as a JTAG programmer? What other JTAG programmers could I use to program this microcontroller?

It should technically work. That is quite overkill for an MSPM0. I believe all of our XDS class debug probes will work.

https://dev.ti.com/tirex/explore/node?node=A__AHPc.Wb9z60G4gncUEl6rA__xdsdebugprobes__FUz-xrs__LATEST

XDS110 is the best price/performance probe and recommended for this device.

As a new user, I'd like to draw attention to the CCS 20 fundamentals workshop with MSPM0. It was written for a different MSPM0 device but going through the material would still be useful:

https://dev.ti.com/tirex/explore/node?node=A__AfGo5aJCBd8KgjAsOGhQsA__CCSTUDIO-ACADEMY__RdkYJ-M__LATEST

Thanks

0 joe lindula 2 months ago in reply to Ki

Mastermind 6910 points

Thank you very much.

Have a great day

0 joe lindula 2 months ago in reply to Ki

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Hello, I downloaded the SDK and tried creating a new project in CCS I added the examples from the SDK but I get this error:

What else do I need to download?

Thank you very much,

Joe

0 joe lindula 2 months ago in reply to joe lindula

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I was able install the ARM-CGT — Arm® code generation tools -- compiler tools:

https://www.ti.com/tool/ARM-CGT#downloads

I'm trying to follow the Lab 1 from

https://dev.ti.com/tirex/explore/node?node=A__AWEW5ISXEiFshi3wwJmfUg__CCSTUDIO-ACADEMY__RdkYJ-M__LATEST

I chose the gpio_toggle_output_LP_MSPM0G35007_nortos_ticlang example.

Joe

0 Ki 2 months ago in reply to joe lindula

TI__Guru**** 449491 points

joe lindula said:
I was able install the ARM-CGT — Arm code generation tools -- compiler tools:

CCS 20 comes with the TI ARM clang compiler. What it doesn't come with is the ARM GCC compiler (which was mentioned in previous thread). Typically, Resource Explorer would handle this dependency if you installed the SDK from Resource Explorer. But since you are working with a PC not connected to the internet, you need to download/install everything manually.

joe lindula said:
I'm trying to follow the Lab 1 from

https://dev.ti.com/tirex/explore/node?node=A__AWEW5ISXEiFshi3wwJmfUg__CCSTUDIO-ACADEMY__RdkYJ-M__LATEST

I chose the gpio_toggle_output_LP_MSPM0G35007_nortos_ticlang example.

Yes, I would recommend this workshop as a starting point also.

Thanks

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