TI-RTOS 2.00.01.23 Release Notes

Introduction

This is an General Availability release of TI-RTOS . This version of TI-RTOS requires CCS 6.0.

Documentation

The following documentation is available:

• Getting Started Guide
• User Guide
• TI RTOS Manifest
  
• TI-RTOS Wiki 

Products Included

• bios_6_40_01_15 
• uia_2_00_00_28
• ipc_3_10_01_11 (valid for only TI-RTOS for C2000 and C6000 products)
  
• ndk_2_23_01_01 (valid for only TI-RTOS for C2000, C6000, Sitara, and TivaC products)
• xdctools_3_30_01_25* (included only in stand-alone installer. It is not include via an App Center download)
• MSP430Ware 1_80_01_03a** (valid for only TI-RTOS for MSP430 product). Includes drivers and examples for the following boards:
• MSP-EXP430F5529LP, MSP-EXP430F5529(in CCS 6) (USB Experimenter Board) and MSP-EXP430FR5969LP
• MWare_v201b** (valid for only TI-RTOS for C2000 product).  Includes drivers and examples for the following boards:
• Concerto Family: TMDXDOCKH52C1 and TMDXDOCK28M36  
• TivaWare_C_Series-2.1.0.12573c** (valid for only TI-RTOS for TivaC product).  Includes drivers and examples for the following boards:
• Stellaris Family: EKS-LM4F232 and EK-LM4F120XL
• Tiva-C Family:  EK-TM4C123GXL,  DK-TM4C123G, and DK-TM4C129X, and EK-TM4C1294XL

What's New

2.00.01.23

• This release is identical to 2.00.00.22 except for a minor installation fix.

• Multiple Products
  

  Product	Kernel (SYS/BIOS)	Instrumentation (UIA)	Wired Networking (NDK)	Wireless Networking (via CC3000)	IPC	Drivers (refer to the product's Getting Started Guide for more details)	*Ware
  TI-RTOS for C2000	Included	Included	Included (M3-only)	Included (M3-only)	Included	Included (M3-only)	Included (MWare)
  TI-RTOS for C6000	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Included	Not included	Not included
  TI-RTOS for MSP430	Included	Included	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included (MSP430)
  TI-RTOS for Sitara	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Not included	Not included	Not included
  TI-RTOS for TivaC	Included	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Included	Included (TivaWare)

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• Added MSP_EXP430FR5969LP and EK-TM4C1294XL boards
• CCS 6 App Center Support
  
• New versions of products
• Kernel and Instrumentation examples for all products (driver examples only on TI-RTOS for C2000, MSP430 and TivaC).

Upgrade and Compatibility Information

• New Product: Existing applications must point to the corresponding "TI-RTOS for xxx" product instead of "TI-RTOS" in the Project Properties->General->RTSC->Product and Repositories. 
  
• TivaC Users: TivaWare changed in this version of TI-RTOS. The following changes must be made to existing TI-RTOS TivaC applications

1. Libraries: The TivaWare libraries (e.g. "${COM_TI_RTSC_TIRTOS_INSTALL_DIR}/products/TivaWare_C_Series-2.0.1.11577a/driverlib/ccs/Debug/driverlib.lib") must be changed to point to the new TivaWare libraries (e.g. "${COM_TI_RTSC_TIRTOS_INSTALL_DIR}/products/TivaWare_C_Series-2.1.0.12573c/driverlib/ccs/Debug/driverlib.lib")
2. Include Paths: The TivaWare include paths (e.g. "${COM_TI_RTSC_TIRTOS_INSTALL_DIR}/products/TivaWare_C_Series-2.0.1.11577a") must be changed to point to the new TivaWare path (e.g. "${COM_TI_RTSC_TIRTOS_INSTALL_DIR}/products/TivaWare_C_Series-2.1.0.12573c").

• MSP430 Users: MSP430Ware changed in this version of TI-RTOS. The following changes must be made to existing TI-RTOS MSP430 applications:

1. Libraries: The MSP430 libraries (e.g. "${COM_TI_RTSC_TIRTOS_INSTALL_DIR}/products/MSP430Ware_1_60_02_09a/driverlib/ccs-MSP430F5529/ccs-MSP430F5529.lib") must be changed to point to the new MSP430 libraries (e.g. "${COM_TI_RTSC_TIRTOSMSP430_INSTALL_DIR}/products/MSP430Ware_1_80_01_03a/driverlib/ccs-MSP430F5529/ccs-MSP430F5529.lib")
2. Include Paths: The MSP430 include paths (e.g. "${COM_TI_RTSC_TIRTOS_INSTALL_DIR}/products/MSP430Ware_1_60_02_09a/driverlib/MSP430F5xx_6xx") must be changed to point to the new MSP430 path (e.g. ""${COM_TI_RTSC_TIRTOSMSP430_INSTALL_DIR}/products/MSP430Ware_1_80_01_03a/driverlib/MSP430F5xx_6xx"").

Host Support

• Supported Operating Systems
  • Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows Vista
  • Linux [RH4], Ubuntu [10.04]

Dependencies

This release requires the following other software components and tools versions to successfully function: 

• CCSv6.0 or higher
• Compiler versions are noted in the next section

Target and Compiler Support

Validation Information

• CCSv6.0 (with FlashStellaris.dll as noted in the Dependencies section)

Known Issues

Examples

Version Information

All releases have 4 digits (M.mm.pp.bb). This includes GA and pre-releases (engineering, EA, beta, etc.). Pre-releases are denoted with a suffix (e.g. 1.01.00.15_eng or 1.01.00.21-beta).

This product's version follows a version format, M.mm.pp.bb, where M is a single digit Major number, mm is 2 digit minor number, pp is a 2 digit patch number, and b is an unrestricted set of digits used as an incrementing build counter.

To support multiple side-by-side installations of the product, the product version is encoded inEK-TM4C1294XL the top level directory, ex. tirtos_1_00_01_11.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. TI-RTOS 1.00.00.68 with directory tirtos_1_00_01_70. Typically, these patches only include critical bug fixes.

Please note that version numbers and compatibility keys are NOT the same. For an explanation of compatibility keys, please refer to the 'Upgrade and Compatibility Information' section.

Technical Support

For technical support, please refer to the Texas Instruments E2E BIOS Support Forum http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/tirtos/default.aspx or other forums in http://e2e.ti.com/ as needed.

Last updated: April 23, 2014