License related problem

Mahesh,

What is happening is that CCS does license checks at different times. It is doing a quick check when you start up CCS to ensure that there is a license there but it has not fully validated the license. When you launch the debugger it tries to check out a specific feature from the license. This initiates a separate license check. It will use the first license file that has the feature it needs. This could be the free license and hence it will say free license in the status bar. That could be because it found the free license first and it had everything needed, or it could be that it checked the full license first and the hostid didn't match your machine so it then checked the free license and that was ok so it used it.

What device are you using? What is the debug connection (XDS100, MSPFET...)?

For an MSP device the free license has a code size limit but works with any debug connection. For our other families the free license has no code size limit but limits the debug connection used to our entry level debug probes like the XDS100.

Regards,
John

Hello,
You can try forcing CCS to use the full license:
processors.wiki.ti.com/.../FAQ_-_CCSv4

What debug probe are you using for debug?

Thanks
ki