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Started by Jose A. Rizo-Morente June 7, 2005
Hi,

We are working with the tms320vc5510 dsk. Doing so, we use the usb
connetor supplied by the board. My question is if we can switch off the
boundary scan while we are runnning free our programs, becouse we are
trying to measure some power software dependencies and there is a need
of skip the boundary scan effect. Do we need to work with the external
jtag connector instead?.

Another question is, Does anyone know how easy or accessible is to
develop a plug-in tool for the code composer studio?, is it possible? I
mean like the tools that some companies have developed for the ccs.

Thanks to everyone in advance,

Jose

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Jose--

On 6/7/05, Jose A. Rizo-Morente <jose.rizo-morente@jose...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are working with the tms320vc5510 dsk. Doing so, we use the usb
> connetor supplied by the board. My question is if we can switch off the
> boundary scan while we are runnning free our programs, becouse we are
> trying to measure some power software dependencies and there is a need
> of skip the boundary scan effect. Do we need to work with the external
> jtag connector instead?.

Am not an expert in emulation, I believe the on-board emulation in
5510dsk cannot turned off,since the logic is embedded. So, I think
your hunch on needing to go for an external emulator seems to be the
correct one. Having said that, I wonder how much processing the
boundary scanning would anyway eat up, considering the fact that the
on-board emulation is not non-intrusive and not really real-time?

Either which ways it seems to me that an external emulator would not
be a bad idea for advanced timing and debug info.

> Another question is, Does anyone know how easy or accessible is to
> develop a plug-in tool for the code composer studio?, is it possible?

How easy? I dont know! Is it possible? Yes, very much! I do know that
you will have to get the CCS SDK kit approved from TI for you to be
able to plugin stuff into CCS or alternatively you can develop neat
stuff using the GEL scripting supported by CCS. I have developed some
time back simple project control handles using GEL files.It is quite
to easy to do stuff like that.But am not sure if thats what you are
looking for.

--Bhooshan

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the
game winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed."
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check out this link for SDK related info:

[ http://dspvillage.ti.com/docs/thirdparty/thirdparty.jhtml?templateIdV81&path=templatedata/cm/thrdprty/data/emulation_sdk
]

--Bhooshan


Hi,
I get pop-up with the following message during program load.
"Data verification failed at address 0xFFFF00. Please verify target memory
and memory map".

Can anyone suggest what I need to do to avoid the pop-up.

With Regards
Sunil.


Hi,
Check your command file and give proper memory sections. I guess this
error comes when CCS tries to write code to read only memory.
Cheers,
Ajith.
Sunil writes:

> Hi,
> I get pop-up with the following message during program load.
> "Data verification failed at address 0xFFFF00. Please verify target memory
> and memory map".
>
> Can anyone suggest what I need to do to avoid the pop-up.
>
> With Regards
> Sunil. >
> >



Sunil--

> Can anyone suggest what I need to do to avoid the pop-up.

Not loading the program at all, is one easy option but may not be
viable to you.So, instead I would suggest that you verify:

1]If this pop-up occurs everytime you load the same .outfile

-1a]If the linker command file is well behaved is not allocating
sections into
illegal memory location

2]If it occurs every time you load ANY .outfile

3]If the start up GEL file has memory details consistent with your
target memory map, especially so, if it is a custom hardware.

--Bhooshan On 6/9/05, Sunil <sunil@suni...> wrote:
> Hi,
> I get pop-up with the following message during program load.
> "Data verification failed at address 0xFFFF00. Please verify target memory
> and memory map".
>
> Can anyone suggest what I need to do to avoid the pop-up.
>
> With Regards
> Sunil.

-------------------------------
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career.
I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times I've been trusted to take the
game winning shot and missed.
I've failed over and over again in my life.
And that is why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan
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