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Device-variant that is not currently recognized TMS320C55XX.TMS320C5505

Michael Rietz
Intellectual 395 points
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: TMS320C5505

Hi everybody!

I am experiencing currently an erratic behavior of CCSv4/Eclipse. I installed the test projects that were included on the eZdsp USB stick installation CD (i.e. led, spirom and aic3204). I am able to install these projects correctly, compile them and run them.

Sometimes, when I start CCS and try to rebuild any of these projects, the following error message pops up:

This project was created for a device-variant that is not currently recognized TMS320C55XX.TMS320C5505. Please install the device-variant descriptor, or migrate the project to one of the supported device-variants.

That is strange because of two things: First, I was able to build the project before, and second, because the device-variant descriptor (under Project properties-->CCS build settings-->Project settings) has changed. While it indicated "TMS320C5505" before when everthing was fine, it now shows "TMS320C55XX.TMS320C5505". Furthermore, when I click on "more" to select the correct device variant (TMS320C5505), it only shows three device variants (something like Custom C5505, Standard C5505 and something else) but not TMS320C5505 or any of the other, usually available options.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior and knows how to fix it? I usually restart CCS again and sometimes that helps, but that is a bit unsatisfactory, especially since it only helps sometimes.

 

Cheers and thanks in advance!

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    TI__Guru**** 451481 points

    Hi Michael,

    I've seen the Device Variant get messed up the first time when importing existing CCSv4 projects into a new workspace. But in your scenario it sounds like it will happen randomly after the import. You can also try cleaning out your workspace and see if that helps things.

    I'm not too familiar with the eZdsp USB stick CD. Are the projects that come on the CD CCSv4 projects?

    Thanks

    ki

  • 0 in reply to Ki
    Intellectual 395 points

    Hi Ki,

    (un)fortunately, this problem has not occurred anymore, so I can't really tell if cleaning the workspace would have helped. Yes, it happened sometimes after starting CCS even if I already had imported the projects long before and compiled them successfully a number of times. I had the impression that this problem was caused by my impatience: When you start CCS, you can see CCS searching and updating different things in the bottom right corner of the GUI. I had the impression that this problem occurred sometimes when I clicked on properties while CCS was still updating and looking for things. A couple of minutes ago,I tried to recreate the problem by starting CCS and clicking on properties right after the start, but the device variants were fine. I am now on CCSv4.1, so maybe that fixed the problem.

    If I am experiencing this behavior again, I will let you know. But thanks for your reply!

    Michael

  • 0 in reply to Michael Rietz
    TI__Guru**** 161725 points

    Michael,

    There is a timing issue in CCSv4.0 that can cause that error message.  Something is getting scanned to build up the information while at the same time something is trying to read the info.  This problem is fixed in CCSv4.1.  If for some reason you see this again please let us know.

    Regards,

    John

     

  • 0 in reply to JohnS
    Prodigy 60 points

    Hi,

     

    I am using CCS 4.0.0.xxx with C5515 EVM. I recently updated CCS and some other components as I needed to work with C5537 (I created a new workspace with the updated CCS) . I can work fine with C5537 when I create a fresh project. However I cannot import my old projects based on C5515 to the new workspace as I get the message

    " This project was created for a device-variant that is not currently recognized: TMS320C55XX.TMS320VC5515. Please install the device-variant descriptor, or migrate the project to one of the supported device-variants."

    I also tried to switch the workspace back  to the old one. However none of the projects in the old workspace is recognized.

     

    Also can you indicate the way to upgrade to CCS 4.1 as it is not detected in the automatic update searching.

     

    Thanks,

    Shaminda

  • 0 in reply to Shaminda Subasingha
    Prodigy 60 points

    Correction to my prev post.

    My CCS version is 4.2.4.00033

    CCS for C5500 version is 4.0.0.2011xxx.

     

    So updating to CCS 4.1.xxx  (as given in the solution to the previous post) had not fixed the problem in this case .

     

    Thanks for the help in advance.

    Shaminda

     

  • 0 in reply to Shaminda Subasingha
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Saminda,

    Sounds like something may not have gone right with the update process. Which components did you update?

    CCS 4.0.x is quite old and I don't think we had the ability to update CCS via the Update Manager until a later version. My suggestion would be to download and install the latest version of CCSv4, 4.2.4. You can get the downloads from http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Download_CCS#Code_Composer_Studio_Version_4_Downloads.

     

  • 0 in reply to AartiG
    Prodigy 60 points

    Please see my second post. I was mistaken for the CCS for C5500 version vs CCs version. My CCS version is 4.2.4.00033 and 

    CCS for C5500 version is 4.0.0.2011xxx. 

     

    Although I have CCS 4.2.xxx, I get the above error message.

     

    Shaminda

  • 0 in reply to Shaminda Subasingha
    TI__Guru**** 173310 points

    Shaminda,

    Looks like there is a bug here. Please see this related forum thread: http://e2e.ti.com/support/development_tools/code_composer_studio/f/81/t/128353.aspx
    As a workaround, you could edit the .ccsproject and .cdtbuild files in the project folder to replace the VC5515 with C5515. Then you should be able to clean and build the project in CCS 4.2.4. Hope this helps you move forward.