McsaTutorial1HowToRun

How to Run a System Analyzer Tutorial Project

(for UIA_1_00_01_17 and earlier releases)

• Launch a target (e.g. the C6678 Device Functional Simulator, Little endian)
• Load the .out file. It should run to main and halt
• Load the .gel file that is installed along with the source code for the tutorial

• Open the Control Panel

• Right-click on the debug view->Open GEL Files View

• right-click on the right pane of the Control Panel and select "Load GEL...", and select the .gel file

• for Tutorial1, load the mcsaTutorial1.gel file
• for Tutorial2, load the mcsaTutorial2.gel file

• to find the location of the .gel file, right click on it in the C/C++ Projects view and select 'Properties'. The file path is displayed at the top of the properties view.

• Start System Analyzer / (called Multicore System Analyzer (MCSA) in earlier CCS releases)

• Tools->System Analyzer->Live (or Tools->Multicore System Analyzer->Live)
• The Live Parameters configuration dialog should default to "Auto-detect Configuration from Debug Session", and should show that the Core that you loaded the program on is instrumented.

• If it doesn't, and you are running CCSv5.1.060XX or CCSv5.1.070XX, please see http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Multicore_System_Analyzer#Known_Issues.2FErrata )
• If you still can't get System Analyzer to auto-detect that an instrumented program has been loaded, please manually create a System Analyzer config file

• in the Live Parameters: dialog, select "Until data transfer is manually paused" and click Run

For Tutorial 1: Run the tutorial phase you are interested

• e.g. Scripts->MCSA Tutorial1->Tutorial1A_LoggingEvents
• For hardware targets, click the Run button in the Debug view to run the selected tutorial
• To run a different phase of the tutorial:

• select the tutorial phase from the Scripts menu and click the Run button.
• NOTE: you do not need to re-load the program

For Tutorial 2: display the two GEL sliders by selecting Scripts->MCSA Tutorial 2->Slider_1 and Scripts->MCSA Tutorial 2->Slider_2

If you reload the program, you will need to restart System Analyzer in order to discard the old event data and collect data from the new debug session:

• To restart System Analyzer , select Tools->System Analyzer->Live again.

• (in earlier releases, select Tools ->Multicore System Analyzer (MCSA)->Live)

Links:

• MCSA Tutorial 1 Home
• Multicore System Analyzer Home