Sorry, that should be: http://www.elprotronic.com/
(Note the 'r') On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 00:12:59 +0200 Hans Nieuwenhuis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
