LPSTK-CC1352R: Boot Image Manager security policy

Dear Tim,

1. There is indeed some way to lock OAD, we will try to come back to you with the specifics on how to do so.

2. As you might have seen in the SDK, you can also use BIM over other wireless technologies, such as IEEE 802.15.4. Please look at the following example, and at our documentation there: https://dev.ti.com/tirex/explore/node?node=AHMS2yA77-HDuWFq0pJs2w__BSEc4rl__LATEST&search=OAD

BR,

Arthur

Arthur,

Okay.  Looking forward to more information.

Hello Siddanth,

So what is offchip BIM and onchip BIM?  Which type of example project should I choose?

Hello Siddanth,

I am trying the OAD tool comes with Simplelink SDK 6.1.  It turns out to be a failure to install those python modules.  Here are the output.  How do I correct them?

My system is Windows 10, WinPython 3.9.

C:\TI\CCS\11.2\simplelink_cc13xx_cc26xx_sdk_6_10_00_29\tools\common\oad>pip install -r requirements.txt
Collecting crcmod
  Using cached crcmod-1.7-py3-none-any.whl
Collecting intelhex
  Using cached intelhex-2.3.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl (50 kB)
Requirement already satisfied: ecdsa in c:\myprograms\python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages (from -r requirements.txt (line 3)) (0.17.0)
Collecting staticx
  Using cached staticx-0.13.6.tar.gz (67 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Collecting patchelf-wrapper
  Using cached patchelf-wrapper-1.2.0.tar.gz (197 kB)
  Preparing metadata (setup.py) ... done
Requirement already satisfied: six>=1.9.0 in c:\myprograms\python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages (from ecdsa->-r requirements.txt (line 3)) (1.16.0)
Requirement already satisfied: pyelftools in c:\myprograms\python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages (from staticx->-r requirements.txt (line 4)) (0.28)
Building wheels for collected packages: staticx, patchelf-wrapper
  Building wheel for staticx (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [25 lines of output]
      running bdist_wheel
      Traceback (most recent call last):
        File "<string>", line 2, in <module>
        File "<pip-setuptools-caller>", line 34, in <module>
        File "T:\Users\Timmy\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pyu7jpxn\staticx_8a9c1663faf348389bb98726871c1832\setup.py", line 122, in <module>
          setup(
        File "C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\__init__.py", line 87, in setup
          return distutils.core.setup(**attrs)
        File "C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 148, in setup
          return run_commands(dist)
        File "C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\core.py", line 163, in run_commands
          dist.run_commands()
        File "C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 967, in run_commands
          self.run_command(cmd)
        File "C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\dist.py", line 1229, in run_command
          super().run_command(command)
        File "C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\dist.py", line 985, in run_command
          cmd_obj.ensure_finalized()
        File "C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\_distutils\cmd.py", line 107, in ensure_finalized
          self.finalize_options()
        File "T:\Users\Timmy\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pyu7jpxn\staticx_8a9c1663faf348389bb98726871c1832\setup.py", line 56, in finalize_options
          self.plat_name = get_platform()     # Equivalent to passing --plat-name
        File "T:\Users\Timmy\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pyu7jpxn\staticx_8a9c1663faf348389bb98726871c1832\setup.py", line 89, in get_platform
          uname = os.uname()
      AttributeError: module 'os' has no attribute 'uname'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for staticx
  Running setup.py clean for staticx
  Building wheel for patchelf-wrapper (setup.py) ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × python setup.py bdist_wheel did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [18 lines of output]
      T:\Users\Timmy\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pyu7jpxn\patchelf-wrapper_c3427cc652ce4506ae5808b97ff3843f\setup.py:222: DeprecationWarning: Due to possible ambiguity, 'convert()' is deprecated. Use 'convert_file()'  or 'convert_text()'.
        long_desc = pypandoc.convert(long_desc, 'rst', format='md')
      running bdist_wheel
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build
      creating build\lib
      creating build\lib\patchelf_wrapper
      copying patchelf_wrapper\__init__.py -> build\lib\patchelf_wrapper
      running build_patchelf
      C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\install.py:34: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
        warnings.warn(
      running check_patchelf
      patchelf not found
      running clean_patchelf
      Extracting to build\lib/patchelf-0.11
      Configuring: ./configure --prefix C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64
      error: [WinError 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
  ERROR: Failed building wheel for patchelf-wrapper
  Running setup.py clean for patchelf-wrapper
Failed to build staticx patchelf-wrapper
Installing collected packages: patchelf-wrapper, intelhex, crcmod, staticx
  Running setup.py install for patchelf-wrapper ... error
  error: subprocess-exited-with-error

  × Running setup.py install for patchelf-wrapper did not run successfully.
  │ exit code: 1
  ╰─> [15 lines of output]
      T:\Users\Timmy\AppData\Local\Temp\pip-install-pyu7jpxn\patchelf-wrapper_c3427cc652ce4506ae5808b97ff3843f\setup.py:222: DeprecationWarning: Due to possible ambiguity, 'convert()' is deprecated. Use 'convert_file()'  or 'convert_text()'.
        long_desc = pypandoc.convert(long_desc, 'rst', format='md')
      running install
      C:\MyPrograms\Python\python-3.9.10.amd64\lib\site-packages\setuptools\command\install.py:34: SetuptoolsDeprecationWarning: setup.py install is deprecated. Use build and pip and other standards-based tools.
        warnings.warn(
      running build
      running build_py
      creating build\lib\patchelf_wrapper
      copying patchelf_wrapper\__init__.py -> build\lib\patchelf_wrapper
      running build_patchelf
      running check_patchelf
      patchelf not found
      running clean_patchelf
      Cleaning build\lib\patchelf-0.11
      error: [WinError 5] Access is denied: 'build\\lib\\patchelf-0.11\\build-aux\\compile'
      [end of output]

  note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: legacy-install-failure

× Encountered error while trying to install package.
╰─> patchelf-wrapper

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for output from the failure.

Hello Sid,
If we use 15.4 Stack to upload boot image, what is the effective communication range between the 2 SimpleLink devices?  I expect it will be much longer than that of BLE.

Hi Tim, 

Yes, sub1GHz will typically give you a much better range. The range is dependent on a lot of factors, I would suggest you to use our range estimator tool and include factors for your specific use-case to get an estimation of range.

https://www.ti.com/tool/RF-RANGE-ESTIMATOR

Regards,

Sid