1: plug in board.

2: Wait for drivers to be auto detected.

Click on installing driver software icon on taskbar and click skip obtaining driver software

from windows update.

3: Insert cd

Explore the cd

Go to spectrumdigital/dsk6455/target content/ and run setup.

4: Install target content into the ccs4 folder.

5. Start CCS4.

6. Click file>import

7. Select Legacy CCSv3.3 Projects and click next.

8. Browse to the location of the target content (i.e. this should be in the ccsv4 folder where we

installed it. C:\program files(x86)\texas instruments\ccsv4\boards\dsk6455\examples\led\)

9. Select led.pjt and click open.

10. Click copy projects into workspace.

11. Click next.

12. Click next again.

13. Click finish.

14. A warning pops up, click ok.

15. Click view>c/c++ projects.

16. The window should now look like this.

17. Click project>build active project.

18. Errors should appear in the bottom console window. To fix errors select linker.cmd under your

project tree and delete it.

19. Build the project again.

20. More errors should appear. This is because the file is still linked through ledcfg.cmd file in the

original directory.

21. The errors should look like this:

<Linking>

"C:/Program Files (x86)/Texas

Instruments/ccsv4/boards/dsk6455_v2/examples/led/./ledcfg.cmd", line 255:

warning:

symbol "CLK_F_gethtime" from file "C:/Program Files (x86)/Texas

Instruments/bios_5_40_02_22/packages/ti/bios/lib/biosTCI6482.a64P<clk_getht

i

me.o64P>" being redefined

22. Browse to the location of the ledcfg.cmd file, it should be the original location of the imported

project, i.e. C:\Program Files (x86)\Texas Instruments\ccsv4\boards\dsk6455_v2\examples\led\ and

delete ledcfg.cmd file.

23. Build the project again, this time there should be no errors.

24. Click view>target configurations.

25. Under user defined, double click “new TargetConfiguration.ccxml.”

26. Make sure DSK6455 is selected under “connection: Spectrum Digital DSK EVM-eZdsp onboard

USB Emulator”. If not select it and cl ick save.

27. Click target>Launch TI debugger.

28. Windows firewall will block the program.

29. Allow access to all four security alerts.

30. If, when launching the TI Debugger, the “installing device driver” windows appears again, make

sure you once again skip searching on windows update as in step 2 and wait for the driver to be

detected. Otherwise you will receive an emulator error.

31. After the debugger has successfully launched, the window should look like this.

32. Select target>connect target.

33. Select target>load program.

34. If you have copied the project files into the workspace (step 10) then when you browse project,

you should find the led.out file there. Double click it and press ok.

35.The program should now be loaded onto the board.

36. To run the program click target>run.

37. LED 1 should blink.

Follow the same procedure for tone.c.

If you have edited and saved your project in workspace and want to carry on working on the same

saved project, copy your project folder onto a flash drive or whatever media you prefer.

To open this same project again follow the following procedure.

1. Do steps 1-5 above.

2. Copy the project you want to open to your workspace.

2. Click file>import.

3. Select existing CCS/CCE Eclipse projects.

4. Browse to the project folder.

5. Click ok.

6. The project file name should appear in the window.

7. Click finish.

8. Click view>c/c++ projects and make sure that the project tree is on the left side.

9. Click project>build active project.

10. Errors should appear in the console window at the bottom.

11. This is because the include file dsk6455.h is not included by default in the software.

12. To include this file, click once again view>c/c++ projects, highlight the top branch of the project

tree.

13. Click project>properties or right click on the top branch and select properties.

14. Go to C/C++ Build.

15. Select Include Options.

16. Click on the little plus icon.

17. Click file system and browse to the location of the installed target content from the cd.

18. Select the include folder found in boards/dsk6455/ and add it.

19. Click apply and try build the project again.

20. The compiler should show more errors in the bottom console.

21. The error looks something like this:

<Linking>

error: cannot find file "../../lib/dsk6455bsl.lib"

This is because the .lib file has not been included.

22. Select your project and go to properties again as in step 12.

23. This time under C600 linker tree click on “file search path”.

24. In the” include library file or command file as input” window should be a location.

25. Select it and delete it.

26. Click the little plus icon and browse file system.

27. Browse once again to the target content folder and into the lib folder (i.e. boards/dsk6455/lib/)

and select dsk6455bsl.lib.

28. Click apply and try build the project again.

29. The project should now finally build without errors.

**** Build of configuration Debug for project tone ****

C:\Program Files (x86)\Texas Instruments\ccsv4\utils\gmake\gmake -k all

gmake: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Build complete for project tone

30. Follow the same steps as above to launch debugger and load the program etc.