OMAP L138 LCDK New CCS user

Hi Dave,

Hi Shankari,

Thanks for the quick response.  I re-installed, but still dont see my platform listed. Should I expect to see an OMAP L138 in that list somewhere?

Also your link to the starterware seems to be broken.  I'll see if I can find it through the red blocks that show up in the resource explorer for the C6 integra.

Dave

Hi Dave,

As I have suggested earlier, in the processor support screen did you select "C6000 Single core DSPs" option ( as marked in red colour in the screenshot for your reference)?

"TI Resource explorerscreen " is not an appropriate screen to see the list of supported platforms. It is the Processor suppport screen which lists the supported platforms.

You can refer to the links above ( The broken links are corrected now!.)

Regards,

Shankari

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Shankari,

I did exactly as you suggested several days ago.  I uninstalled CCS then I re-installed it with the C6000 Single Core DSP selected, as you have circled in red above.  The image I posted before showed the OMAP L138 was still not listed.  I installed the starterware (also per your suggestion) to see if that helped but it did not.  So I spent a day or so reading more wikis hoping to glean a bit more information.  In an act of desperation I read through the release notes for CCSv5.4 and over the last several releases you can see a lot of comments that say things like "added this device to that package" and "removed this device from that package". So I came to the conclusion that TI may not know where the devices and boards are anymore.  So I reinstalled yet again, and this time when I installed, I added any processor which even closely resembled the Arm9 and C6748.  I think it was about 6 or 7 processor groups I selected.  I have no idea which one had the OMAP L138 in it (none of the descriptions that pop up when you select a processor call the OMAP L138 out, which really really needs to be fixed).  But miraculously when I started CCS and looked, it showed up and I was able to build load, and run the hello world example. Naturally, now I have a ton of junk that I don't need on my PC (thank you TI) but at least I was able to get it up and running.  This was only the Arm side.  I'm having trouble bringing up the DSP, but I will read some more.  I watched all of the CCS/SYSBIOS training videos, which show how CCS is supposed to work, but when I follow the same steps, it fails (in many ways).  I expect I'll spend another week or so on it fumbling around trying to get my target config and GEL files right, but that's a subject of another long and frustrating post.  I feel like a beta tester.

 Still, I am a very patient person who likes a challenge, and I haven't given up trying to develope for this platform... Yet.

Dave,

You actually need the one called "C6x DSP + ARM processors". This should give your OMAP L13x support.

And yes, the Processor Support option for the CCS installer is horribly confusing, misleading and just sucks. We know and we are looking to make this more clearer,

Thanks

ki

Thanks Ki

I have some questions about the Target Config files also, and I read through the powerpoint slides on that (good stuff there), but I need to do a little more experimenting before I formulate a full set of questions.  I will ask one quick question off the top of my head.

When you use the graphical target config file editor in CCSv5.4 and you make a change, for example I had to change the advanced JTAG TCLK setting to "Adaptive w/ user specified limit" and entered the 1 MHz rate to get my Arm9 to run at 300 MHz, where does that change get stored?  I'm having a hard time understanding where all the info is kept because the ccxml file that gets stored either in the project, or in the users local account (project-less) is just a tiny little file and I don't see anything like advanced settings or gel paths in it.  I don't want to mistakenly change the baseline target config files or gel files.

Dave Szuter said:

When you use the graphical target config file editor in CCSv5.4 and you make a change, for example I had to change the advanced JTAG TCLK setting to "Adaptive w/ user specified limit" and entered the 1 MHz rate to get my Arm9 to run at 300 MHz, where does that change get stored? 

It gets stored in the ccxml file. Any modifications made in the graphical Target Configuration editor is made to the ccxml file. That editor is basically a ccxml editor.

Dave Szuter said:

I don't see anything like advanced settings or gel paths in it.

If you tweak any advanced settings or add/modify the startup GEL file, you should see a change made to the ccxml file. You can view the source of the ccxml file via the 'Source' tab at the bottom of the editor.