Configure CCS in USB mode

[captainfranz]

Hi all,

I'm very new to the embedded technology and I'm using the 56F8367 evaluation board to acquire the signals of an accelerometer as part of my MS thesis.

I absolutely need to use the environment on my laptop, which doesn't have a serial port, nor a parallel port, thus I bought two USB converter cables. No problem with the serial one, because it installs a virtual serial port, but the parallel one is a bit more tricky, since it is installed as a "USB printing support", so CodeWarrior doesn't find a parallel port. I had a look at CCS and I suppose it is possible to configure it in USB mode. I tried both launching "ccs -cc usb" which complains about an invalid parameter and from inside ccs I tried "config cc usb" which complains about "maximum number of ccs reached"... If I first try to delete the existing ccs and create a new one the situation is the same... any idea?

Thanks in advance,

Simone

[CrasyCat]

Hello

In order to be able to download through USB you need a USBTAP cable.

If you have one of these USBTAP cable, you need to run at least "CodeWarrior Development Studio for Freescale 56800/E Digital Signal Controllers Version 7.3" and you need to install a patch on top of it ("USBTAP PATCH for CodeWarrior, Windows and Linux").

Patch can be downloaded from following URL:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=USBTAP-UPDATES&parentCode=null&nodeId...

If you are running an older release of the software or do not have an USBTAP cable to connect to your hardware board, you will not be able to use USB for communication,

Also USB to parallel converter are not working well for embedded development. These adaptor usually allow you to connect a printer through your USB port, but they do not provide the available signal for debugging.

CrasyCat

[offgrid]

Hey crazycat:

You said:

"In order to be able to download through USB you need a USBTAP cable.

If you have one of these USBTAP cable, you need to run at least "CodeWarrior Development Studio for Freescale 56800/E Digital Signal Controllers Version 7.3 and you need to install a patch on top of it (USBTAP PATCH for CodeWarrior, Windows and Linux)."

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That is fine...but the problem is the latest version on the Freescale web site is ver 7.0, and the "auto updater" that you can run from the winxp "Start" button cannot locate the web site to check or update the ver to 7.3. So my question is... where do we get ver 7.3???

Thanks
Tim E
Magnum Energy

[CrasyCat]

Hello

Go to following URL:http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/overview.jsp?nodeId=01272600617882

Click on 56800-E-DSC-UPDATES  

You come to the DSP56xx Update page where you can download V7.3 patch.

CrasyCat

[offgrid]

THANKS!!
I only looked all day for that file yesterday!
I spent a couple hours last night and found that
you directed someone else to that location,
found it myself last night.

THanks again...
here is hoping Freescale can make Codewarrior
stuff a little easier to obtain!!!

Tim

[Chinzw]

where found USBTAP V1.6 firmware upgrade  ?who can share the firmware