msp430f1611 board + jtag tiny, and I am getting dumb

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Hi,

some days ago I received the devel board with 430f1611 and the tiny jtag. I am trying to debug the small “blinking led” example and I cannot.

I installed cc2.0 and IAR kickstart, to check the behaviour. in IAR I simply get:

FATAL ERROR

Failed to initialize device.

Session aborted!

simple and quick…

CodeComposer shows me the gdb output trace:

Starting target server…

Could not initialize device interface

what am I doing wrong?

my config and progress:

the Olimex devel board with 430f1611 is powered by jtag tiny,

I installed the code composer first and after that I connected the jtag dongle it was detected I pointed to the Driver directory with Olimex driver, then copied the msp430.dll file (together with the three other to

{cc directory}\tools\targets\emulation\msp430\

then I found the blinking led example and wanted to check it out :slight_smile:

the first time I managed to flash the device and the debuging started, probably the value I set the counter for the loop was to small because the led did not blink it was simply on. I terminated the debug and changed the value. the second time it was also not blinking (I found some examples where the value was 10000, and I set it to 50 and to 1000). during the third try I got the message…

I did not manage to access the device since then…

then I installed the kickstart and I also tried to run the gdb430 with the target config from CC. still the same.

I uninstalled and reinstalled the driver. the tiny is simetimes detected and sometimes not, I am not really sure if it is installed or not. I tried this on three computers, same result. even if it is recognized it does nothing.

I dont know if there are some fuses or locks I could activate/deactivate on the MSP. I did not touch any settings except those for TI usb fet, like already said in many posts before.

next week I will get the LPT jtag so I will try to check what is the reason the dongle or the board.

I really miss kind of manual for jtag tiny. for example at the beginning I noticed that the led is not only green, it was also a little bit red. What does it mean?

ok, hope this does not look to messy :slight_smile:

any idea about what I did wrong is welcome.

krzysztof

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more…

yesterday I managed to run the debug once more.

after the loading of the image to the msp I was able to step (f5) through the code but as soon as I pressed f8 the jtag tiny went crazy and it was gone, I only got messages from gdb430 that there is no connection to the FET.

what is really strange is that the detection of my tiny jtag is unpredictable, sometimes even if it is detected and the driver is installed I still get the error message.

after uninstalling the driver I usually need several reboots, usb reconnections for the device to be detected… sometimes several minutes after the reboot the computer detects the dongle. sometimes it is detected after previous detection (it was not reconnected)

does anyone have the same problems or am I the unlucky one?

Krzysztof