Installation and Usage of Utilities in DA8xx SDK

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Pin Setup Utility

• Pin Setup Utility is a GUI tool to calculate PINMUX settings.
• This tool is installed along with PA SDK and is available from following link of Windows Start Menu: Start Menu -> Programs -> Texas Instruments -> PA SDK YYMMDD -> Pin Setup Utility
• This tool helps make pin selections based on
  • product type
  • peripherals
  • individual pins
• After making pin selections, the selection can be saved as .pin file for future reference.
• A copy-to-clipboard button is provided in tool bar, which can be used to copy pin selection in a format that can be used in board_init.c file (part of SDK firmware deliverable) for custom hardware.
• Following is a screenshot of Pin Setup Utility

  

AIS Generation Utility

• AISgen (AIS Generation Utility) is a GUI tool used to generate boot image for AIS supported boot modes.
  • SPI Flash, NAND, UART, etc.

• To download installer for AISgen tool, open "Using the OMAP-L1x7 Bootloader" application note from here. A PDF file (Using the OMAP-L1x7 Bootloader) will open and first page of this file contains link to download AIS Generation Tool.

• This tool requires Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 be installed. This can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com

• Please note that AISgen tool downloaded from above mentioned link is applicable for ROM3 (d8xxkxx3) devices, by default. In case, your EVM contains ROM1 (d8xxkxx1) device, please make sure to select D800K001 for ROMID.

• For details of AISgen usage, please refer to the downloaded application note.