CCS/AWR1843: what is the easiest way to know the amount of flash memory that uses my application?

Hi, I saw the tutorial, and it show this image

And now I am doing the same in the AWR1843 MRR beam steering lab project but I can not see the amount of flash allocation of the board, just the RAM, why?, how could I know the total space of flash allocation?

thanks

Jairo Gallardo said:

And now I am doing the same in the AWR1843 MRR beam steering lab project but I can not see the amount of flash allocation of the board, just the RAM, why?, how could I know the total space of flash allocation?

Note that the Memory Allocation view is a static analysis tool using information generated by the build tools (compiler/linker). The names of the memory ranges are dictated by information in the linker command file used by the project, specifically the names defined with the MEMORY directive. Please check your linker command file to how the allocation is being done and correlate it to the information you see in the Memory Allocation view.

Hope this helps

ki

Hi, I just want to load the AWR1843 MRR beam steering lab project to the AWR1843 BOOST board (I know how to do it) and check the amount of flash memory that this project consume, how can I do this?

Thanks

Unfortunately there is no simple way to get the total flash used on program download like you can with MSP430. You will have to do a bit more manual analysis and calculation. Check the generated *.map file in the configuration subfolder. It should tell you how/where the program is allocated in memory. The Memory Allocation view also has much of the same information. My question is that the screenshot you provided, I only saw references to RAM. Is there any sections allocated to flash? 

Hi, no, any info in the memory allocation view mention the flash, this is the memory in mss

ans this the dss

and, is not dangerous that this lab allocates the 100% of some memories?

other queries:

1.- the xwr18xx_mrr_demo.bin file size is 265KB, could I say this is the flash allocation used by this project?

2.- does the awr1843 has an internal flash (8MB)?

Jairo Gallardo said:

Hi, no, any info in the memory allocation view mention the flash, this is the memory in mss

I was actually referring to information the *.map and *.cmd file. Can you attach both of them to this thread?

Hi, the .map file is in the debug folder but where is the .cmd file?

beamsteering lab map and cmd files awr1843.zip

Hi, are you sure I can change the allocation from flash and not use the RAM?, I read this in the SDK datasheet

Functional mode says the app is stored in flash, ok, but then the code is loaded to RAM

Jairo Gallardo said:

Hi, are you sure I can change the allocation from flash and not use the RAM?, I read this in the SDK datasheet

I really don't know. I was just speaking from a generic point of view regarding the tools. This is a question for the device experts. I would suggest creating a new thread in the Sensors forum

https://e2e.ti.com/support/sensors/f/1023

Hi, what do you think about the second photo, is not dangerous that this lab allocates the 100% of some memories?, or should I ask this to sensors forum too?

Jairo Gallardo said:

is not dangerous that this lab allocates the 100% of some memories?, or should I ask this to sensors forum too?

Yes, these are all application specific questions best asked to the experts on the sensors forum.

Thanks

ki