CCS/MSP432P401R: Compiling/Generating Hex File for Production Programming

Robert Cachro

Part Number: MSP432P401R
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: MSP-FET, UNIFLASH

Tool/software: Code Composer Studio

Hello,

We are transitioning to production with the MSP432 MCU and have some questions regarding command line programming of our boards. Currently we are planning on using the MSP Flasher (http://www.ti.com/tool/MSP430-FLASHER) with MSP-FET and MSP-FET-432 Adapter.

For each board that we need to program, we need to slightly modify our main.c code text file, recompile, generate a HEX, and transmit the HEX file to our boards through the MSP432.

The MSP Flasher will allow us to transmit the hex file (our tests stands run on Windows) but we are a bit a lost on how to recompile and generate the HEX through CCS? Is there a command line alternative to recompiling and generating this HEX file? That would obviously be preferable. I am not even quite sure how to generate the correct HEX file from CCS for testing.

Any help is much appreciated.

Best,

Rob

over 8 years ago

0 Ki over 8 years ago

TI__Guru**** 472451 points

Hi Rob,
The code generation tools (which comes with CCS) come with a hex utility. The documentation for it can be found in section 12 of the Assembly Language Tool User's Guide:
downloads.ti.com/.../index.html

All the documentation on how to run the utility from the command line is documented in the manual above.

You can also configure and run it from CCS. In your project properties, there is a set of options under "MSP432 Hex Utility". You can enable the utility from here and configure it.

Thanks
ki

0 Ki over 8 years ago

TI__Guru**** 472451 points

Also note that we provide a utility called UniFlash:
processors.wiki.ti.com/.../Category:CCS_UniFlash

This utility is for easily flashing your device via command-line or GUI interface. You may want to take a look at it also.

Thanks
ki