Hi- I'm pretty new to all these different embedded technologies. Currently I'm using IAR KickStart to download our application to our devices and it's very cumbersome. We have several TI FET programmers(3 USB and one parallel). Because there are many different versions(different version for each client) of our application, I wanted to create a desktop app that could list available version, then by double clicking I could invoke a command like util to download the application to the device via our FET. Does that sounds reasonable? Do any of you know of an application (open source and free would be nice) that would interface with the FET programmer from TI(USB would be nice since it carries enough supply voltage for us)? Any suggestions would be great. I'm not familiar with "Boot Strap Loader", I've seen it in my books and online, but am not sure how it works. We are using the JTAG interface. Thanks for your time, Steve
command line FET prgrammer
Started by ●September 15, 2005
Reply by ●September 15, 20052005-09-15
steve wrote:> Do any of you know of an application (open source and free would be > nice) that would interface with the FET programmer from TI(USB would be > nice since it carries enough supply voltage for us)?You haven't said for which uC or DSP you need the programming software! If it is for the MSP430 series, then one solution is http://mspgcc.sourceforge.net/tools.html For their DSP's like F2812 I think there are no open source or free tools. Of course, you could go to www.sourceforge.net and do a search... - Jan
Reply by ●September 15, 20052005-09-15
I'm sorry, yes, it was for the MSP430 I have looked at mspgcc tools and I'm not confident it will do what I need without switching over to almost the entire MSPGCC tool set/chain TI has some samples where they show the use of their gang programmer DLL, I'm currently waiting to hear from support if such an example exists for the USB version of the FET. Thank you for your post. PS: if this post appears at top, I'm sorry.. it was sent via google.
Reply by ●September 16, 20052005-09-16
steve wrote:> I'm sorry, yes, it was for the MSP430 > > I have looked at mspgcc tools and I'm not confident it will do what I > need without switching over to almost the entire MSPGCC tool set/chain >If you look harder, you'll see that there is absolutely no requirement to switch to the rest of the gcc toolchain (although if you look too hard, you may find yourself switching anyway, since it is an excellent set of tools). Support for the USB FET is more recent, so you might have to search around a little (look in the mailing list archives) rather than having a nice direct link.> TI has some samples where they show the use of their gang programmer > DLL, I'm currently waiting to hear from support if such an example > exists for the USB version of the FET. > > Thank you for your post. > PS: if this post appears at top, I'm sorry.. it was sent via google. >
Reply by ●September 21, 20052005-09-21