On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:14:52 +0200 "JMGross" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yesterday I got the demo kit for the 5438, together with the > MSP-FETU430IF USB programmer. After installing the included IAR > kickstart, I was able to program it - using the IAR compiler, which is > restricted to 8 KB of code. Unfortunately, there was no way to use the > IAR suite or the debugger for putting a IHEX or TI hex (or ELF) file > onto the MSP. Only the internal format is supported. Bad luck. I stumbled across the same problem as you did. Elpotronic offers a free version of their programmer software that works with the FETU430IF and loads hex files. http://www.elpotronic.com At http://goodfet.sourceforge.net/ you can find an open hardware FET tool that programs MSP430's but when I played with it a few weeks ago it did not have support for the 5438 yet. That's why I had to purchase a FETU430IF programmer to get my protos verified then. However I played with it using other code I found through a message on this list (search for a thread called: [Mspgcc-users] MSP430F55xx support?) where you can find code for a programmer based on the GoodFET11 using a different crystal. I managed to tweak that code to use the original 32768hz crystal and got JTAG recognized and was able to dump memory regions from my 5438 protoboard. Due to lack of time I never managed to verify the programming ability (using my tweaked firmware). These projects are sure very promising especially for people working under Linux as the original TI tools gave me various levels of headaches from time to time. Regards, Hans -- $ cat .sig /dev/null
