Hello, I'd like to thank Frank Harvey and Roberto Padovani for their quick answers.
Since I still havent't solved the issue, and regarding your questions, I see I must add some details about my custom board: - it is powered by the FET, via USB - it is very small; although it has some expansion ports, I'm just supplying power to the MSP and an external flash memory chip - the communication is via "full" JTAG, not spy-by-wire - most importantly, it has already been tested using both IAR Kickstart and Code Composer Studio v4 and it works without any problem Thank you, 2009/7/23 José Miguel Catela <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > First of all, let me tell you I'm really sorry if my questions are > already answered somewhere, but I've been searching many forums for > three days and I haven't got a clue if I can even use my hardware. > > I have a MSP-FET430UIF and a custom development board connected to it > according to TI's document "MSP430 Hardware Tools User's Guide" > (slau278a). > The microcontroller is a MSP430F5438 and this is where my doubts > begin: is the new MSP430x5xxx series supported by mspgcc tool chain or > not? I haven't found a decisive answer, and the most recent version of > mspgcc includes a file called "msp430x54xx.h", which makes me believe > it is supported. > But the main issue is to know if the FET is working or not. When I try > to start msp430-gdbproxy, I can either get the message "Could not find > device (or device not supported) (4)" followed by "Assertion failed : > !msp430_status.is_open, file target_msp430.c, line 745" (if giveio is > installed) or "Could not initialize device interface (1)" (if giveo is > not loaded). And this happens whether the FET is connected to the USB > port or not. I can't also update the firmware, it just says "The FET > tool version does not match this program. Update required." when I try > to update it, what seems useless, because that's what I'm trying to > do. So, my big question is: does the self test, update or something > else works just with the FET plugged in? Or must a compatible > processor be connected to the FET through the 14 pin interface? > A last comment: I've described what happens using windows but under > linux the problems are just the same. > > I appreciate any help anyone can give me, > > -- > José Miguel Catela > -- José Miguel Catela
