How to burn .hex intel format file on cc2530 EB

Question

Hello there I am a newbie working on the SMARTRF-05EB - Evaluation Board, I have installed SDCC and Contiki-2.6 in the Linux Virtual Machine. I am able to build all the examples present in this directory contiki-2.6/contiki/examples/cc2530dk , but I am clueless as to how to flash the final .hex image file on EB.

Is there a way to burn it from Linux directly using some command or do I have to switch back to Windows and use TI's Flash Programmer to burn the application image. When I try to flash the application using the Flash Programmer I get this message highlighted in RED : "Flash Image overlaps with the bootloader"

Can someone please let me know about how to correctly place the application code on a particular address so that I can save the bootloader from being corrupted by my application .hex file.

I would like to flash say for example the simple "hello world" .hex file.

Thanks

Answer 1

After compiling the code for the example you are working with it 'll create a platform specific file Ex. for sky (hello-world.sky) in you case it 'll be hello-world.cc2538dk. Just use the following command to convert it to ihex file

msp430-objcopy udp-multicast.exp2420 -O ihex udp-multicast.ihex

You can now rename the ihex file to hex file and upload the hex file to your mote using TI flash program (http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/MSP430_Flasher_-_Command_Line_Programmer). From windows use the following command to upload the file.

MSP430Flasher.exe -n "MSP430F5438A" -m SBW4 -w your_hex_file.hex -i COMxx [VCC]

Answer 2

Hello there I had to figure it out by going through the documentation..so the commmand that I used in getting a successful output on the hardware was this

1) root@ubuntu:/home/contiki/contiki-2.6/examples/cc2530dk# make TARGET=cc2530dk clean
2) root@ubuntu:/home/contiki/contiki-2.6/examples/cc2530dk# make TARGET=cc2530dk

also in the previous directory, cd to hello-world and execute the 2 commands as below:

1) root@ubuntu:/home/contiki/contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world# make TARGET=cc2530dk clean
2) root@ubuntu:/home/contiki/contiki-2.6/examples/hello-world# make TARGET=cc2530dk

These 2 commands help in building the .hex for the SMART05-EB and then use the TI's SMARTRF STUDIO software or TI's Flash Programmer for burning the hex image on the SoC. Open up TeraTerm or anyother Serial Communication software and then choose the port with settings 115200 8-N-1 and you should be able to get the output on screen. I have issues in building the other examples in other directory - for eg ping-ipv6, so would be posting a new question regarding such examples.

Thanks