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CCS V5 emulator selection

Thomas9070
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Hi,

I am new to CCS V5 (I used to use CCS V3.3). I have just installed CCS V5 (CCS5.1.1.00031_win32) and was trying to build a simple test project (under Windows XP).

How can I add a new Emulator type in CCS V5? I have installed a Softronics XDS 510 PCI jtag and a SEED USB XDS560. both run under CCS 3.3. For the SEED, I installed the CCS V4-setup.exe. Both devices are visible as 'working' in the Windows XP device manager, the softronics XDS510 is recognized as Texas Instruments XDS560...:

In the old CCS 3.3 Setup, the XDS510 emulator shows up like this - I can connect to DM648, C6204 and C6414:

In CCS V5.1, neither of the 2 emulators shows up in the list of emulators that is available in the 'Project Properties - General - Connection'. I tried to select different options, but get always the 'Unable to communicate with the emulator' error dialog.

What is the standard procedure to extend CCS V5 by emulator drivers?

Any experiences with the SEED XDS560 USB or the Softronics XDS510 PCI Jtag under CCS V5?

bye,

Thomas

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    TI__Guru*** 130875 points

    Hi Thomas,

    this support and these drivers come from the third party themselves typically.  I have good news and bad news for you however.

    The good news is the SEED XDS560 is supported in CCSv5.  Have a look at the SEED/product website  Eg this site, which should be a very similar process for v5.

    http://www.xds560.com/xds_ccs4.php

    The bad news is Softronics I do not believe is around anymore .. therefore they have no updated support or drivers etc.  So the Softronics is not supported in v5.

    Hope this helps clarify.

    Best Regards,
    Lisa

  • 0 in reply to Lisa TI
    Expert 1575 points

    Hi Lisa,

    Thanks for your reply. Well... also with this seed guideline its somehow tricky. I followed the list as good as possible (it seems that some of the menus are different in CCS 5.1). But - in the end when I launch the debugger, CCS hangs forever (well - more than half an hour). in a way that can only be recovered by rebooting the PC. Maybe this is something on the CCS side?

    CCS shows a messagebox 'Initializing: IcePick_C_0 (Cannot be canceled) forever. And its true - it cannot be canceled. Neither Windows Task Manager nor tools like sysinternals process explorer are able to kill the ccstudio process any more. No Cancel button works. When I try to launch CCS again, it cannot open its workspace - since the old running process blocks ist. Well.. it seems that rebooting is the only thing that helps.

    Is this something known? Is there another way to kill CCS at that point?

  • 0 in reply to Thomas9070
    Expert 1575 points

    A short follow-up:

    - It is required to give the ccs_base path when install the SEED driver. The CCS hangups were solved having the correct path. If it is installed somewhere else, the SEED xml can be found/inserted using "browse...", still CCS hangs when starting to debug (well... at least it was like this on my PC).

    - it seems to be requied to install and run the CCS V3.3 driver before being able to use the SEED in CCS V5. I have reproduced this on a different PC. I could not connect to the emulator in CCS V5.1 before I used it once in CCS V3.3.

    bye,

    Thomas