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Standalone Flash Programmer

Maurizio6434
Intellectual 295 points


Is there any utility that helps to program a PICCOLO device through XDS100 without CCS?

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    TI__Guru**** 162875 points

    Maurizio,

    Is the issue not wanting CCS on the machine or just not wanting to have to use the CCS user interface?  The reason I ask is that CCS has a scripting interface and loading a program via it will flash 28x devices.  There is a little utility called loadti that is built on this interface that may do what you are looking for.

     

    http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Loadti

     

    Regards,

    John

  • 0 in reply to JohnS
    Intellectual 295 points

    CCS is a complicate tool, in production we prefer to make programming a simple task and avoid engineers need.

    I found a Blackhawk utility, but it needs an expensive XDS510.

    Maybe loadti can help, thanks a lot for your suggestion.

     

  • 0 in reply to JohnS
    Intellectual 295 points

    LoadTI coud be the solution. Does it need a licensed CCS or the free version is enough?

  • 0 in reply to Maurizio6434
    TI__Guru**** 472151 points

    If you use XDS100, you can use the free version.

  • 0 in reply to Ki
    Expert 1890 points

    I can't seem to find the standalone Debug Server Scripting framework that's mentioned in the wiki page http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Debug_Server_Scripting :

    Debug Server Scripting (DSS) is a set of cross platform Java APIs to the Debug Server which allow scripting through Java or 3rd Party tools such as JavaScript (via Rhino), Java) , Python (via Jython), TCL (via Jacl/Tclblend), etc. JavaScript is the default (and preferred) scripting language supported by DSS.

    The Debug Server is the base debug engine that has been extracted out of the Code Composer Studio (CCS) v4 product and made available independent of the CCSv4 GUI. It has been wrapped in a Java interface and is used by both DSS and the CCSv4 IDE.

    Where can I find it?

    If it is no longer available separately from CCSv5, could you please enter in a request for a standalone flash programmer tool, as this question originally asked?

    I like CCSv5, but it's a huge pain to have to install a 1 gigabyte program on a lab computer just to do flash programming.

  • 0 in reply to Jason R Sachs
    TI__Guru**** 472151 points

    Hi Jason,

    Jason R Sachs said:
    If it is no longer available separately from CCSv5,

    This is true.

    Jason R Sachs said:

    could you please enter in a request for a standalone flash programmer tool, as this question originally asked?

    I like CCSv5, but it's a huge pain to have to install a 1 gigabyte program on a lab computer just to do flash programming.

    Note that a DSS only install would still install the debugger, various drivers, and other utilities needed for a debug session. No GUI would save some space but it would still be several hundred megabytes at least.

    ki

  • 0 in reply to Ki
    Expert 1890 points

    That's a bit discouraging. We have several lab PCs where we do not do any software editing or debugging, we just use CCS to program the device FLASH; in fact probably half of our CCS installs are for this purpose. A standalone flash programming tool would be immensely useful.