Re: Re: Cannot run TI CC 4.10 with Spectrum SPI530 Emulator in Windows XP

Bob-

> Thank for your help again. We are still struggling to find the solution.
> Here the answer to your question/comments.
>
> 1) Did you check your known-good Win2k system and see if someone had
> run SDConfig before?
> (A1) I checked all the Emulator settings on the Windows 2000 PC and
> made sure that the PC running Windows XP is set the same.

Ok.

> 2) Did you try running xdsprobe?
> (A2)Sorry, don't know what "xdsprobe"is.

xdsprobe is a TI utility to test out JTAG chain scan path and the emulator
connection. You can search your system for xdsprobe.exe. I'm not sure if it works
with SPI530... maybe not as I can't find a combined reference on TI's website -- you
could ask Spectrum Digital. More info about xdsprobe in this TI app note:

http://focus.ti.com/lit/an/spra758a/spra758a.pdf

(Note: I think "our" Mike Dunn is a co-author of this app note).

> The failure always occurs within ? second after the program load starts.
> I don't have enough time to try to grab the title bar of the progress
> box.

Somehow the number of seconds in your text got lost, but if you don't have to time to
move the mouse and grab the title bar of the progress box, then the failure is
happening early in the download process.

It "feels" to me like CC quickly arrives at a point during the download when it needs
to do something slightly different -- touch external memory (or maybe more of it),
touch another external peripheral of some type, initialize something onchip or set an
onchip JTAG register -- and then runs into a timing issue. If so then it may have to
do with how the SPI530 software and driver got installed on your WinXP PC, BIOS
settings, parallel port chip settings -- in other words, something having to do with
WinXP or the type of PC you're using.

Another thing to try: rebuild one of your shorter failing programs with no debug
information (turn off -g option, strip symbols, etc). Does it get farther?

-Jeff

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