Flashing MSP430 based board CM5000MSP

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Hello,

I was trying to run an example program (hello-world) on the MSP430 based board to test out riot-os, but flashing is failing -

make BOARD=msb-430 flash with following error usbutil: unable to find a device matching 15ba:0031

The device is connected directly to USB port and I believe it is using FDTI driver (USB-RS232).

lsusb shows - Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0451:8142 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB8041 4-Port Hub Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0451:8142 Texas Instruments, Inc. TUSB8041 4-Port Hub Bus 001 Device 007: ID 0403:6001 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd FT232 USB-Serial (UART) IC Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0451:8140 Texas Instruments, Inc. Bus 004 Device 002: ID 0451:8140 Texas Instruments, Inc.

but the make flash is trying to use mspdebug -j olimex “prog myihex”

so I believe the programmer is olimex (google shows JTAG based programmer).

So, how can I flash riot-os in the device over the FDTI?

P/S: I was able to flash contiki os in it over the FDTI driver.

Thanks in advance.

regards,

Shovon.

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Hi Shovon,

we don't have a board "CM5000MSP" in RIOT. Do you mean TelosB? We have a couple of MSP430 based boards in RIOT. Some, e.g. MS*B*-430H need the Olimex debugger. Some don't, e.g. TelosB. You need to build and flash for the correct BOARD and obviously the board must be supported by RIOT.

Best Peter

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Hello Peter, Thanks for quick response. Yes, The board is TelosB. And AFAI understand the board is supported by riot-os.

But I was unable to flash it as it uses mspdebug tool which in turns uses the Olimex programmer.

Is it mandatory for the board? Thanks again. Regards,

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Hi,

the TelosB is supported by RIOT, yes. And it does not need an Olimex adapter cause it has a "GoodFET" jtag adapter on board. The script RIOT/dist/tools/goodfet/goodfet.bsl is called by the "make flash" command.

Did you try "BOARD=telosb make clean all flash"? It worked for me without any problems.

Cheers Peter

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Hi Peter,

I think I used make BOARD=msb-430 instead of telosb. May be I mistakenly used MC model as board because in my cause the script was different than you mentioned.

I will check it and confirm it.

Thanks again for the direction.

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Hello Peter,

Thank you again for your direction, it flashed correctly using goodfet programmer.

However there is no output in the pyterm if I reset the device.

sudo …/tools/pyterm/pyterm -b 115200 -p /dev/ttyUSB0 No handlers could be found for logger “root” 2016-07-05 12:44:31,199 - INFO # Connect to serial port /dev/ttyUSB0 Welcome to pyterm! Type ‘/exit’ to exit.

Any suggestions?

Thanks and regards,

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Hi,

alternatively you could try to

(i) flash an example using a shell, e.g. RIOT/examples/default, after connecting with pyterm (make term) type 'help'

or (ii) once you are connected via pyterm, open an other terminal and flash your device again

Best Peter