- Note
- The steps on this page should be done each time EVM is power cycled or when a new CCS session is started.
Prerequisites
A quick recap of the steps that need to have been done before you proceed
- Make sure you have installed CCS as mentioned in Download, Install and Setup CCS
- Make sure the UART port used for console is identified as mentioned in Setup UART Terminal
- Make sure you have the EVM power cable, JTAG cable, UART cable connected as shown in Cable Connections
- Make sure you have done the steps for a SOC initialization method as per SOC Initialization
- Make sure the UART or CCS console logs on doing EVM POWER-ON indicate that SOC initialization is successful
- Make sure you have built the example of interest as mentioned in Build a Hello World example
Launch CCS
Launch Target Configuration
- You will see the AM62X target configuration in the "Debug" window as shown below
Target Configuration After Launch
Load and run example binaries
- POWER-ON the EVM
- If SBL NULL is flashed on the board by following steps in Flash SOC Initialization Binary, wait for the following messages from UART
Starting NULL Bootloader ...
DMSC Firmware Version 8.4.7--v08.04.07 (Jolly Jellyfi
DMSC Firmware revision 0x8
DMSC ABI revision 3.1
INFO: Bootloader_runCpu:155: CPU m4f0-0 is initialized to 400000000 Hz !!!
INFO: Bootloader_loadSelfCpu:207: CPU r5f0-0 is initialized to 400000000 Hz !!!
INFO: Bootloader_JumpSelfCpu:226: All done, jumping self ...
- If initialization is done by following steps in SOC Initialization Using SPL, wait for the Linux to be up on the A53 core.
Linux terminal
- Connect the target CPU of interest if not already connected. For the "hello world" example this is
BLAZAR_Cortex_M4F_1
Connect CPU
Reset CPU
Load Program
- When using makefiles to build,
- In the "Load Program" dialog, select "Browse" and select the program from
examples/{example folder}/{board}/{cpu}_{os}/{compiler}
as shown below for the "hello world" program.
Select Program for Makefile Build
- When using CCS projects,
- In the "Load Program" dialog, select "Browse Project", select the project and then select the program as shown below,
Select Program for CCS Projects Build
Select the Program from CCS Project
- After the program is loaded, you will see the program is halted at "main" as shown below
Program at main()
- Depending on the example you are running, you may need to load more programs on other CPUs for the example to work as expected. Typically, this is needed for multi-core interprocessor communication (IPC) examples. For the "hello world" program shown above, no more programs need to be loaded.
- Select "Resume" to run the program and debug using the various CCS debug options
Run the Program
- The program output will be seen on CCS console, and/or UART terminal, if enabled. Below shows a sample output on both CCS console and UART console, after running the "hello world" program.
Run the Program
Re-load and run example binaries
- Here simply repeat the steps shows in Load and run example binaries
- It is especially important to "reset the CPU" before reloading the program.
- In most cases, you don't need to power-cycle the EVM to reload the program or load a new program.
- In some cases, depending on whether the previous program execution was successful or not, the CPU or some SOC peripheral may be in a exception or hang state. In this case program reload may not work.
- SOLUTION: Power cycle the EVM and repeat all steps shown on this page.