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Re: Re: SEED USB emulator with 67xx devices -- will pay for solution

Started by Jeff Brower September 18, 2007
Miguel-

> Hello, I was looking for some information about emulators and i found
> this thread. Just one simply question: what is a SEED USB emulator?

http://www.seeddsp.com/default.php#2

-Jeff

> >Sorry about the top posting. I only have 'very low tech' access at the moment and this is just a pasted text file.
> >
> >I will try to make this generic for 'cannot connect problems with NON spectrum digital emulators'. The tool is included with CCS and is called xdsprobe. I think that it runs easiest from a DOS prompt in '\cc\bin\' directory. Note: xdsprobe has more capabilities than I will mention here. Enter 'xdsprobe -hv > xdsprobe.txt' to create a manual called xdsprobe.txt.
> >
> >1. The SEED emulator uses TI's XDS510 emulation driver. They put a DLL 'underneath' TI's scan manager sw [xdsfast3.dll] to redirect its communication from the ISA bus to a USB driver. Somewhere in the docs [?], CCS setup instructions, or the install disk, should be a reference to the name of this DLL [it may have 'seed' in the name]. I will use 'myseed.dll'.
> >Q1- Can TI's scan manager find the DLL? [you should have your target connected]
> >2. enter 'xdsprobe -r -F myseed.dll' [options are case sensitive]. If an address other than 240 or 0 is required, use -p to set the port address ['xdsprobe -r -p240 -F myseed.dll' ]. If this fails, check the error message. The only software used is: xdsprobe.exe--> xdsfast3.dll--> myseed.dll--> myseedUSBdriver-->
> >Q2- Does the CCS configuration work??
> >3. Run CCS setup, configure for the SEED emulator, and close. enter 'xdsprobe -r -f brddat\ccbrd0.dat' This should get the same results as above. If it does not work, something is wrong with your setup.
> >Q3- Can we scan the target?
> >4. So far we have only performed a JTAG reset. Now we will scan some patterns through the DSP. use 'xdsprobe -i -f brddat\ccbrd0.dat' - this will perform a scan chain integrity test. Make sure that all patterns pass and that it showed an IR length of 46 and a DR bypass of 1 [assuming that there is only a single 6713 in the scan path].
> >Q4- Can we run CCS??
> >
> >Note: This will also work on most XDS510 and XDS560 NON-spectrum digital emulators.
> >
> >mikedunn
> >
> >----- Original Message ----
> >From: Jeff Brower
> >To: Mike Dunn
> >Cc: c...
> >Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 1:13:34 PM
> >Subject: Re: [c6x] SEED USB emulator with 67xx devices -- will pay for solution
> >
> >Mike-
> >
> >I used a borrowed SEED USB emulator a few months back on a 6713. It worked ok - it was just slow [expected]. I can't remember which version of CCS I used.
> >
> >What targets/versions of CCS work and don't work??
> >When it "doesn't work", what is the symptom?? [I am guessing that it cannot connect to target]
> >If it does connect to target, what is displayed in the title bar of the window when connected to a 6711 DSK??
> >
> >We've tried different v2.2 installs and v3.1, and various drivers, all with no luck. Do you remember exactly which driver file you used?
> >
> >When it "doesn't work", what is the symptom?? [I am guessing that it cannot connect to target]
> >If it does connect to target, what is displayed in the title bar of the window when connected to a 6711 DSK??
> >
> >Yes cannot connect to the target. Supposedly SDConfig should work because the SEED USB driver looks like an "ISA card driver" that uses I/O address 0x240 and talks to the USB port, but we couldn't get this to work either.
> >Do you recall if you got SDConfig to work? Can you suggest a diagnostic other than SDConfig that is independent of CCS?
> >-Jeff
> >
> >----- Original Message ----
> >From: Jeff Brower
> >To: c...
> >Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2007 1:15:45 PM
> >Subject: [c6x] SEED USB emulator with 67xx devices -- will pay for solution
> > All-
> >We are not able to get SEED USB emulator working with C67xx DSP devices. SEED
> >doesn't know or maybe didn't test that.
> >If anyone on the group can demonstrate for to us how to configure and run the SEED
> >USB emulator with DSK 6711 board, and we can test the solution with DSK 6711 here in
> >our lab and it works, we will pay USD 125.
> >Thanks.
> >-Jeff
>