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TMS320C6711D: No one here knows how to set up CCS to burn existing code into DSPs

Thomas Drewke
Prodigy 10 points

Part Number: TMS320C6711D

I have a legacy problem.   We own a large stock of, and use, TMS320C6711Dxxx DSPs on a legacy product we still manufacture.   We have finished code created years ago, and we used to burn this code into the DSPs using an old copy of CCS and a slightly-obsolete Blackhawk USB-based programming tool. All of this was on an ancient Windows 7 machine which has gone bad.

No one here in Engineering ever uses CCS for anything- the people who did are long gone. SO although I have been able to download and install a current copy of CCS on my nice new Windows 11 PC, and although I could recover files from the old hard drive, I have NO idea how to find which specific files are needed to burn our code into these DSPs.  Nor do I have a clue as to how to set up a burn session on CCS if I did have the files.

I have installed and I have no problem with the Blackhawk programming hardware.  It's recognized and working on Windows 11.    But I need a lot of help building some kind of project which would let me burn the old code into our old DSPs.

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    TI__Guru**** 486641 points

    Hello,

    Please note that even current CCS versions still have debug support the C6711 DSP.

    Thomas Drewke said:
    I have NO idea how to find which specific files are needed to burn our code into these DSPs.  Nor do I have a clue as to how to set up a burn session on CCS if I did have the files.

    This is your main problem. CCS never had native flashing support for external flash with a C67x (or any C6000 device). We referred interested customers to use a utility called FlashBurn provided by a 3rd party called SDS. The tools look unsupported and obsolete now but perhaps you can contact SDS for more information:

    https://teamsds.com/flashburn/

    Thanks

    ki

  • 0 in reply to Ki
    Prodigy 10 points

    I appreciate your reply, but it did look like we were using an old version of CCS on our old Windows 7 machine, possibly combined with something from Blackhawk...It did say CCS at the top of the screen and it did burn my DSPs.  And we definitely did not have Flashburn.

  • 0 in reply to Thomas Drewke
    TI__Guru**** 486641 points

    I am not aware of any other solution besides Flashburn. It may have been some custom solution or a different 3rd party software that I am unfamiliar with.