How do I download the final release to device with IAR?

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Hi, this is my first post to this forum. Just getting into the ez430 but have hit a snag pretty quick.

I have spent hours scouring the docs and net trying to find out how to download the final release of my program to the ez430 using IAR. This is the final build without the debugging stuff included.

Can some one help please?

BitNutter

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I would just use the final debugged “Debug” build. The “Release” build may not work and you cannot use eZ430 to download MSP430.TXT file.

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Go to Project menu → Options, under Linker go to output and in there select output format as intel-extended and make sure debugger is FET debugger, and download with Ctrl+D.

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Thanks for that tip. Changing the output format to ‘intel-extended’ seems to have done the trick.

But I’m wondering… where is that documented?

How should I have known to pick that format?

BitNutter

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Yeah I’m wondering the same because I couldn’t find any documentation on how to download the release version and which format to use. I too was wanting to download a release version and I found that solution last night by googling.

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Hi,

Will it be the same output file for all chips? Or what should I put for output format for MSP430F147 chip?

Your help is greatly appreciated! :slight_smile:

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I think file format has nothing to do with the target chip. It is only a gentleman’s agreement between the linker that generates it and the programmer that reads and downloads it.

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Hi,

I’m using MSP430F147 and I’ve went to Project menu → Options, under Linker → Output tab, selected output format as msp430-txt and made sure that the debugger is FET debugger, and tried downloading with Ctrl+D. But it showed me this error message:```
The debugging session could not be started. Either the debugger initialization failed, or else the file “… .txt” was corrupted or of unsupported format.


Or I must change the output format to intel-extended. Cos when I changed to that, I only got this error saying: ```
The stack plug-in failed to set a breakpoint on "main". The Stack window will not be able to display stack contents. 
``` I don't quite understand what this means. 

When I accidentally unplug the power USB cable to the emulator device, the program in the chip disappeared. How can I write the program into the Flash/ROM of the chip so I won't have to download the program again? I've tried "Release JTAG on GO" but still the same. Can help? Thanks :wink: