I'm trying to use an Olimex USB debugger ("msp430-jtag-tiny"), running on
w2k, but have run into a few issues.If anyone else is trying to use one of these, remember that you have to download the drivers from Olimex's website and install them first. Then copy the supplied SiUSBXp.dll, FTD2XX.dll and MSP430.dll into your mspgcc\bin directory (overwriting the original MSP430.dll). Don't copy the Olimex HIL.dll - if you do so, your USB FET will work but not old parallel port FETs. Running "msp430-gdbproxy.exe msp430 TIUSB" seems to work fine (using the latest mspgcc-win version from 20060502), although it appears to have the "debug" flag always on. However, I can't run the python programs (msp430-downloader.py and msp430-jtag.py) using the USB interface. I can get some contact - for example, I can do a reset or an erase, but reading and writing memory fails with "invalid parameter(s)" errors. Trying to get contact manually from with a python shell gives me much the same problems. Calling "jtag.MSP430_Memory(0xc00, buffer, 100)" returns a status of 1, which is odd - according to the rest of the file, 0 is OK and -1 is an error. The jtag.MSP430_Error_Number() function returns 0 for no error, and the buffer has not been read. Since downloading with gdb/gdbproxy works fine, I know the interface itself is working properly. But I'd like to get the python stuff working - it makes it a lot easier to write user-friendly updater programs. David Brown System Developer WestControl a.s Norway "Utvikling er kunsten av å vikle seg ut av det man har viklet seg inn i"
