OMAP L137 EVM and CCS v4 licensing issues!

Hi!

About UI drawing issues. I read the FAQ, it says that resizing the window should fix the drawing issues. That is unfortunately not the case. You can be assured that I tried just about anything before posting the question, testing various things of how to get the UI to display. My final conclusion was that the left/right coordinates of the UI elements must have random values within the drawing Window, because I was able to see some elements, but only on very rare occasions.

I can also upload a flash movie if needed, showing the attempts to resize the UI window?

I have noticed about 3x faster operation of XDS110 and XDS510 emulators on 64bit OS than on 32bit Windows when stepping through the loop in this code:

void main(void) {
   
    int i;
    int Len = 100;
    float a[100];
   
    for (i = 0; i < Len; i++)
    {
        a[i] = i;   
        a[i] = a[i]*2;
    }
   
    printf("hello world %f\n", a[99]);
   
    return;
}

XDS110:
32bit OS: 6 seconds
64bit OS: 2 seconds

XDS510:
32bit OS: 2 seconds
64bit OS: 0.5 seconds

And would really like to see the 64bit work fine (Windows 7), although I am scratching my head, why same speed could not have been reached on 32bit OS. (Vista, Windows 7). All my OS's have UAC disabled. (Maybe the speed issue is not due to 32bit/64bit, I only tested on 3 OS's, CPU usage was near zero on all and with USB 2.0 enabled.).

Thanks!
Atmapuri

That's strange. Almost all such UI drawing issues was worked around by resizing the UI. I have Windows 7 64-bit at home and saw the same issue (build options UI) get resolved with a resize or the dialog box  or window. 

Regarding speed difference between 32-bit and 64-bit OS with source stepping, that is interesting. We have not done much benchmarking in comparing the two.

Hi!

As I said, I can send a movie, if needed :) I have tried the following to resolve this issue:

a.) Tried all Windows compatibility mode features for running the CCS.
b.) Looked if there is any graphics acceleration to be turned off for compatibility. ATI 5770 has no such feature.

It could be that combination of ATI, Windows 7 and 64bit causes this to happen.
It seems one can only work around bugs for so long until you get pinned : )

Thanks!
Atmapuri

Atmapuri,

I believe you... because I was fighting with it this evening trying to get the buld options to show up correctly on my Win 7 64-bit PC. I actually was able to somehow get it to draw after awhile but it took a lot of resizing windows/panels and a lot of swearing.

From what I understand , this is some limitation with the eclipse version we are using. But I agree that this just stinks. I'll see if there is anything we can do about this to make it better....

ki

Hi,

I am having the same issue. The "build properties" dialog does not show anything useful and resizing the dialog does not help either.

I am also running Windows 7 64 bit with dual monitor and screen resolution for each monitor is set for 1920x1080. I wonder if it has something to do with the screen resolution.

-ba

Ki-Soo Lee said:

I believe you... because I was fighting with it this evening trying to get the buld options to show up correctly on my Win 7 64-bit PC. I actually was able to somehow get it to draw after awhile but it took a lot of resizing windows/panels and a lot of swearing.

After hacking around again today, I was finally able to figure out how to get the Build Properties->Tool Settings options to show up. I posted a video here:

http://software-dl.ti.com/dsps/dsps_public_sw/sdo_ccstudio/CCSv4/Demos/ccsv4_ui_issue.htm

But no luck with the tabs

ki