CCS V5.4 , MSP FET430 UIF, firmware upgrade query

Hi Srinath,

could you please try reattaching the screen captures?  They did not seem to upload properly.

Best Regards,
Lisa

Lisa,

Srinath also posted in the MSP430 forum with some pictures: http://e2e.ti.com/support/microcontrollers/msp430/f/166/p/325648/1134252.aspx#1134252

I'm not very familiar with this particular error message so if you have seen it before it might help us.

Regards,

Katie

Hi Srinath,

your images from the post Katie mentions show a mac pc.  Mac OS is not supported, and I can not comment on whether it will be a future option.    You may or may not have success with a VM as I guess it depends on how the USB gets piped through.  Unfortunately not something we test or support.

Best Regards,
Lisa

Lisa,

I want to let you know that VM shouldn't any issues here. Bcoz, I worked on many experimenter boards,launch pads which pipes through my mac to windows VM. I could able to access in my VM. Even the CD drive is also accessible for me.

In attached picture, you can see that MSPFET 430UIF and my other MSP430 board is visible inside the VM.It shoissue, as the

It shows MSP430 device with no issues but MSPFET430UIF has issues(yellow traingle) 

I assume it is the software driver error message as it clearly shows the software incompatibility.

Please comment.

Thanks

Hi Srinath,

as mentioned, your configuration is not officially supported.  I will try to give a few more ideas in hopes they may help

- this site deals with a similar message - the user reinstalled windows and went to 64 bit

http://www.cypress.com/?app=forum&id=167&rID=58302

- you can also try managing the FET firmware using the free flash tool from elprotronic

www.elprotronic.com

Best Regards,
Lisa

Lisa,

Thanks for comments. Also I want to let you know that I purchased this emulator from digikey as TI is short of stock last but week before. Even digikey customer support didnt help me.In the user guide it has been mentioned the installation CD is applicable to XP and windows 2000. Please see below

Do you think the FET firmware has issues ? If so I can return the part to digikey and place a new order from TI ( just confirmed form TI that part has been back in stock ). If I place the order from TI, can I get installation CD compatible with windows 7 ??

Please comment.

Hi Srinath,

If you already have CCS installed, you should not need any installation CD. The FET tool drivers come installed already with CCS, and from what you've shown us of the folders in your installation, they are present in your install.

When you plug your FET tool into the PC, what sequence do the LEDs on the front of the tool do - do you see RED-RED-RED-GREEN, or does the GREEN LED just turn on solid (no red LED blinking)? This will tell us whether the V2 or V3 firmware is currently loaded in your FET tool and therefore whether it is expecting the CDC or the VCP driver (it looked like the driver file you pointed it to before was VCP - it may be that your FET tool already has the V3 firmware and is expecting the CDC driver instead). If you want to point windows to use the CDC driver (this would be the case if your FET tool comes up with just a solid green LED), then you should instead point it to this folder in your CCS install: C:\ti\ccsv5\ccs_base\emulation\drivers\msp430\USB_CDC.

Lisa's suggestion to try using the free Elprotronic FET-Pro430 Lite firmware is also an interesting idea, as I believe that software also provides its own drivers for the FET tool.

-Katie

Hi Srinath,

one additional comment.  If you wish to verify the FET, do you have another pc/setup you can use?

Katie is absolutely correct ... ccsv5 uses the v3 dll which means the FET should enumerate as a CDC device plus virtrual COM port.

Best Regards,
Lisa

Lisa,

In my case I as I note that it shows RED RED RED and GREEN LED sequence. I wish I have one more PC / laptop to verifiy. I study in CMU. Most of the students I know have windows 8 OS. I wish TI should have released windows 8 compatible software.

Thanks.

HI Srinath,

ok, give that a try.  CCS should run fine in windows 8.  You simply need to be careful with

- permissions

- antivirus

- possible need for compatibility mode

Best Regards,

Lisa