StarterWare 01.20.04.01 Release Notes

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May 24, 2013

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Introduction

StarterWare 01.20.04.01 provides no-OS platform support for the C6748-based Logic PD Evaluation Module (EVM) and the C6748-based LCDK.

StarterWare 01.20.04.01 provides Device Abstraction Layer (DAL) libraries and example applications that demonstrate the capabilities of the UART, I2C, Timer, GPIO, SPI, LCD, LIDD, Ethernet, McASP, USB, EHRPWM and RTC peripherals of C6748.

What is Supported

• Tool Chain (DSP)
  • TI TMS320C6000 DSP Code Generation Tools - v7.4.1 (CCS v5.3.0)
    

• StarterWare Boot Loader
• Standalone Applications running from DDR
• Driver APIs for the peripherals/devices
  • GPIO
  • I2C
  • RTC
  • SPI
  • EDMA
  • Raster LCD
  • LIDD
  • Timer
  • UART
  • EMAC
  • MDIO
  • LAN8710A
  • LIDD
  • McASP
  • EHRPWM
  • USB (HID, CDC, MSC, Bulk)
  • VPIF

• Support for DSP interrupt controller

• lwIP port for C6748

• Sample Applications to demonstrate the usage of
  • GPIO
  • I2C (interrupt and DMA modes)
  • RTC
  • SPI (interrupt and DMA modes)
  • Raster LCD
  • LIDD
  • Timer (normal and watchdog modes)
  • UART (interrupt and DMA modes)
  • Ethernet (echo and http server)
  • McASP (DMA mode)
  • Cache/MMU
  • Graphics Library
  • EHRPWM
  • USB device (HID, CDC, MSC, and Bulk classes)
  • USB host (HID and MSC classes)
  • NAND flash
  • VPIF loopback
  • DSP exception handling

• Demo applications for graphics library
  • grlib demo (as seen in StellarisWare)
  • Maze game

• Out-of-box demo Application that demonstrates several peripherals in combination (GPIO, I2C, RTC, SPI, LCD, Timer, McASP, Ethernet, TouchScreen and UART)

What is Not Supported

• Applications using standard malloc/calloc
  • StarterWare 01.20.04.01 Startup Code does not call any library hence does not perform initializations required for malloc/calloc.
• Peripherals or features not mentioned as part of "What is Supported" section are not supported

New in This Release

• Error concealment for USB library and USB example applications

• USB library provides various error handling support in PIO mode
  • Error handling support is not provided for DMA mode in this release
  • USB library provides multi-instance support
• Utils provides non-blocking interrupt based timer function (Start, Stop and Status)
• Single makefile to build all example applications under EVM
• Demo application provides RTC functionality
  

Fixed in This Release

• Error recovery added for USB Host MSC application
• Data transfer transmit and receive count mismatch corrected in SPI example (Non DMA mode)
• Channel swap corrected in McASP audio loopback example application
• Support added for various word size in McASP driver
• Timer count reset added in Platform library
• MAC address corrected in LCDK Ethernet echo example
• FatFs Port buffers alignment corrected to native cache line length
• DSP Exception example corrected to enable external exception bit to proceess the external exceptions.

Known Issues and Limitations

• Flashing through Serial Flasher only supported on a Windows host.
• The Serial Flasher sfh_OMAP-L138.exe mandates that the application and bootloader images have to be flashed together. There is no option in sfh_OMAP-L138.exe to flash only the application.

Installation and Usage

• For a jump-start, please refer to the Quick Start Guide

• For detailed build and usage instructions, please refer to the Getting Started Guide

Upgrade and Compatibility Information

Currently no upgrades are available.

Dependencies

Refer to Host Platform Requirements of the User Guide

Device Support

SOCs Supported:

• C6748

EVMs Supported:

• C6748-based Logic PD Evaluation Module
• C6748-based LCDK

Validation Information

None.

Technical Support

For further information or support, please visit the TI E2E Community Forums.