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Hello group, I found lots of posts on booting from flash etc, but I didn't find an answer there: I have a program that is 420kb big, and i cannot get it smaller so it does not fit in my C6713DSK's flash; so my idea was: i burn another program to flash, let it open an RTDX channel to my host pc, and transfer a .hex which contains a memory dump of the 420kb prog to RAM, then make the PC point to the start location in RAM and go.. So i can load and run a prog without the aid of CCS, which is my goal. My fisrt question: is this strategy worth a try? I assume all you need to get the .hex to the correct ram locations is some code like in the FBTC files? My second question: how to enable RTDX without CCS?? I wrote the small boot app, it runs fine until the RTDX_read command (I indicate this with LEDs, i just adapted the 'post' code), then waits for a host connection. When I open up my dos rtdx host, i always get "Error: Opening of channel \"ichan\" failed! \n" However when manually running the boot program, and enabling rtdx through RTDX>configuration control, it does work, so I'd like to find a way to get RTDX working without CCS's aid, if possible. Another strategy I was thinking of: would it be possible to use the "load program" and "run" commands from CCS within another program? I mean, if I find out from which dlls these functions are called, it's possible I can call these from within any other code, and thus eliminating the need for CCS to load my program.. Any help/comments on this subject is very welcome, as well as other strategies to get the DSK booting a program larger than flash rom. Regards, Stijn |
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RTDX bootloader?
Started by ●August 17, 2004
Reply by ●August 17, 20042004-08-17
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Stijn- Why does 420k byte not fit DSK C6713 Flash? 512k x 8 is a medium size Flash size. If it's true the DSK C6713 Flash is small, then why not replace it with a larger capacity part? The other methods u mention below lead to Hassle with capital H. -Jeff stino_rides wrote: > > Hello group, > I found lots of posts on booting from flash etc, but I didn't find an > answer there: I have a program that is 420kb big, and i cannot get it > smaller so it does not fit in my C6713DSK's flash; > so my idea was: i burn another program to flash, let it open an RTDX > channel to my host pc, and transfer a .hex which contains a memory > dump of the 420kb prog to RAM, then make the PC point to the start > location in RAM and go.. So i can load and run a prog without the aid > of CCS, which is my goal. > My fisrt question: is this strategy worth a try? I assume all you need > to get the .hex to the correct ram locations is some code like in the > FBTC files? > My second question: how to enable RTDX without CCS?? I wrote the small > boot app, it runs fine until the RTDX_read command (I indicate this > with LEDs, i just adapted the 'post' code), then waits for a host > connection. When I open up my dos rtdx host, i always get "Error: > Opening of channel \"ichan\" failed! \n" However when manually running > the boot program, and enabling rtdx through RTDX>configuration > control, it does work, so I'd like to find a way to get RTDX working > without CCS's aid, if possible. > > Another strategy I was thinking of: would it be possible to use the > "load program" and "run" commands from CCS within another program? I > mean, if I find out from which dlls these functions are called, it's > possible I can call these from within any other code, and thus > eliminating the need for CCS to load my program.. > > Any help/comments on this subject is very welcome, as well as other > strategies to get the DSK booting a program larger than flash rom. > > Regards, > Stijn |
