SMARTRFcc2510 sw example & IAR issues in debugging

Hi Carlo,

You will need a patch from IAR to fix this issue, as the --ks_version option was unfortunately not included in the base release of the kickstart edition of EW8051 7.60.

The patch can be downloaded from the IAR web pages. Go to www.iar.com and select the "My pages" tab. Then, click the link called "Login to view your free Evaluation and KickStart editions" (i.e. don't clik the "Login to My Pages" link). On the new page that appears, use the login credentials  you used for downloading the kickstart version. After successful login, you will get a list of all the kickstart versions of IAR you have downloaded. Go to EW8051 and click the "Upgrade to ..." button. You should now see all the available patches. I recommend that you install all of them.

Hope this helps.

Hi M

thank you very much  I am downloading now

bye

Carlo

I followed M's instructions and downloaded the patches but this is what i get when trying to compile/link the simple DEBUG tutorial that comes with the Workbench:

Tutor.c 

[Su002]: Unexpected command line arguments:
          --ks_version
Error while running C/C++ Compiler
Done. 1 error(s), 0 warning(s)

Apparently it doesn't take this option any more. I don't know if the patch fixed the code size because this sample code is too small to test that. Any ideas?

Of course if i remove that ks option it compiles fine. Is there a way to find out if this think can compile/link more than 4K of code without actually writing that size code?

Regards,

M.L.

Just found this on the patch release notes:

• Important information
• New features
• Known problems
• Program corrections
• User guide corrections
• Miscellaneous
• Release history

Important information

• Starting with version 7.40A of IAR Embedded Workbench for 8051, this driver was renamed to "Texas Instruments" in all IDE dialog boxes.

New features

• None

Known Problems

• EW18593
  It is not possible to set breakpoints when using preprocessed C source code with #line statements unless you write the absolute path for the file e.g: #line 3 "c:\\path\\file.c"

• Known problems that are common for all drivers are listed here.

Program Corrections

• EW20949: Support for handling --ks_version reenabled.   <-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

But how do you get this to work?

M.L.

I definately need to apologize for the real "dumb" mistake i just made. Please disregard my previous 2 posts. I entered "ks_version" in the Compiler extra options tab instead of the Linker extra options tab.

Sorry once again,

Best,

M.L.

Hello everybody

I am still blocked !

I followed instruction , downloading 7.6  applying patches  and then  the commnad in the extra of the linker ...

NO WAY !  it is not working ,  here is the message I got  whan I compiler cimplicity examples  for  1110

     Error[Og008]: Code size limit exceeded (4096 code bytes) for this version of the compiler

Please where am I wrong ?  did you test yourserlf ?

any suggestion ?

thank you

bye

Carlo

Hi M

thank you but ...

No way it is not working ...

my error is differnet , it says  :    Error[Og008]: Code size limit exceeded (4096 code bytes) for this version of the compiler

So it seems even compiler is limited ...

so let me recap :

winXp Sp3 ( as yours )  , I downloaded today kickstart from IAR  ( it is 7.60.1     so 60.1 instead of your 60 ) .

I install it pure dafault ,  I try to compile   simplicity example  swrc133_SW_example.zip   example for mini -dk .

I  run it default and get the error .

I put the option in the linker  --ks_version   but it is no use ...

I tested  on 2 pc  myself  and my collegue tested on his  no way ...

could you give a try please ?

thank you

bye

Carlo

I'm finally beginning to remember... When you want to compile the software examples for the CC1110/CC2510 Mini kits, there's a couple of things you need to do for this to work.

As you have noticed, if you take the example *as is* and compile with the kick start version of IAR, you will get the following error message:

Error[Og008]: Code size limit exceeded (4096 code bytes) for this version of the compiler

You get this error because the project uses "Multi-file Compilation", i.e. treating the complete set of C files as one compilation unit. However, the compiler in the kick start version does not support compilation unis that generates code larger than 4kB. So you have to turn Multi-file Compilation off. You can do this in the project options --> C/C++ Compiler --> Language.

After turning the option off and recompiling, you will get another error:

Fatal Error[e89]: Too much object code produced (more than 0x1000 bytes) for this package

This is because the --ks_version linker option is not set. Go to the project options --> Linker --> Extra Options and add --ks_version (remember to download the patch you need for this option to work with IAR EW8051 KS 7.60). Alas, when rebuilding, you will get yet another error:

Fatal Error[e90]: Can only generate UBROF output from these files

The reason is that the extended version of the kick start version (i.e. when using the --ks_version option) of IAR only supports generating debug files. However, the project is by default set up to generate both the debug output file and the flash image in Intel HEX format. To fix this, go to project options --> Linker --> Output and deselect "Allow C-SPY-specific extra output file".

Now, finally, the project will build without any errors.

Hope this helps :-)

I got this part working. But my question is: How do i generate an ".hex" file to flash the CC1110? 

I tried to generate the .hex file (using the Kickstart extended version) but it does not work. Is that the intent?  How do i get my program (>4K) into flash?

Regards,

M.L.

You can of course use IAR Embedded Workbench to download your app to the target (you program the flash when you download and debug the target). However, IAR can not be used to generate HEX files when you use the --ks_version option. That's intentional.

Note that if you do have a .hex file, you can use SmartRF Flash Programmer to write (and read) the image to the flash.

hi all,

I downloaded IAR Embedded workbench, that is 30days trail version(not code size limit )

whenever i am building with application i got these error

Error[Li016]: size limit exceeded: 52072 > 32768

Error while running Linker

i am using 30 days trail version then it shouldn't show above error, then why it is showing.

help me how to get out from this issue.

The CC2510 device has 32kB of flash...