TI-RTOS 2.13.00.06 Release Notes

This release note is divided into the following sections:

Introduction, Documentation, Products Included, What's New, Upgrade & Compatibility Information, Host Support, Dependencies, Target and Compiler Support, Validation Info, Known Issues, Examples, Version Information, Technical Support.

Introduction

This is a production (GA) release of TI-RTOS 2.13.00. TI-RTOS delivers components that enable engineers to develop applications on Texas Instruments micro-controller devices. The product is comprised of multiple software components and examples of how to use these components together. TI-RTOS gives developers a one-stop RTOS solution for developing applications for TI embedded microcontrollers. It provides an OS kernel, communications support, drivers, and more. It is tightly integrated with the Code Composer Studio development environment. In addition, examples are provided to demonstrate the use of each functional area and each supported device and as a starting point for your own projects. This release notes covers all of the TI-RTOS products (i.e., for C2000, TivaC, and SimpleLink).

Product	Kernel (SYS/BIOS)	Instrumentation (UIA)	Wired Networking (NDK)	Wireless Networking	IPC	Drivers (see 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 MSP43x	Included	Included	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included (MSPWare)
TI-RTOS for TivaC	Included	Included	Included	Included	Not included	Included	Included (TivaWare)
TI-RTOS for SimpleLink™ Wireless MCUs	Included	Included	Not included	Included	Not included	Included	Included (cc3200-driverlib)

Documentation

The following documentation is available:

Documentation Overview

Release notes from previous releases are also available in the release notes archive directory.

Products Included

The following is a list of all the products bundled into the TI-RTOS installation (with exceptions as noted).

bios_6_42_00_08
uia_2_00_02_39
ipc_3_30_01_12 (valid only for TI-RTOS for C2000 product)
ndk_2_24_02_31 (valid only for TI-RTOS for C2000 and TivaC products)
xdctools_3_31_01_33* (included only in stand-alone installer. It is not included via an App Center download)
CC3200_driverlib_1.1.0 (valid only for TI-RTOS for SimpleLink™ Wireless MCUs product).
MSPWare 2_00_00_40b** (valid only for TI-RTOS for MSP43x product).
MWare_v202a** (valid only for TI-RTOS for C2000 product).
TivaWare_C_Series-2.1.0.12573c** (valid only for TI-RTOS for TivaC product).

* XDCtools is installed at the same level at TI-RTOS. If the xdctools_3_31_01_33 version is already present at that location, that version is used.
** refer to <TIRTOS_Install_dir>\products\<*Ware>\TI-RTOS.README for more details

What's New

Please refer to the Getting Started Guide and/or User Guide for more detail about the following new features.

Updates to assorted CC2650 drivers.
Updated CC2650 driverlib to 2.21.01.15600.

Defects Fixed in this release:

ID	Headline
SDOCM00114703	update TI-RTOS simplelink docs overview to have better description and links to CC26xx driverlib docs
SDOCM00115378	IAR for ARM compiler tools should move to 7.40.x for CC2650 support
SDOCM00115634	MSP432 Power should put TI-RTOS-specific code in a separate library
SDOCM00115651	CC3200 Power should check for conflicting user-explicit configuration of Clock or Timestamp proxy
SDOCM00115733	I2C_Mode should be taken out of I2C.h and moved into implementation specific .h files
SDOCM00115822	remove CC26xx PG 2.0/2.1 driverlib from the product
SDOCM00116048	ti.tirtos/package.xs should "loadPackage" ti.drivers.ports.tirtos to work correctly with the "closure" tool
SDOCM00116106	SPI driver does not allow MSP432 to reach LPM3
SDOCM00116134	update UARTCC26XX.h and SPICC26XXDMA.h to use new control command definitions

Upgrade and Compatibility Information

When migrating an application that uses TI-RTOS 2.12.xx to TI-RTOS 2.13.00.06, there are some minor compatibility breaks in the CC26xx driverlibAPIs. If you use driverlib APIs directly, you may have to make minor changes to your source files.

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:

CCS 6.1.0 or higher
IAR for ARM 7.40.1 or higher
IAR for MSP430 5.60.1 or higher
Compiler versions are noted in the next section

Target and Compiler Support

The following table contains the targets available for each product. It also contains the compiler toolchains that were used to build the TI-RTOS binaries.

Product	Supported Targets	Compiler Toolchains	Compiler Versions
TI-RTOS for C2000	ti.targets.arm.elf.M3 ti.targets.C28_float ti.targets.C28_large	Texas Instruments	5.2.2 (M3) 6.2.5 (C28)
TI-RTOS for MSP43x	ti.targets.msp430.elf.MSP430X	Texas Instruments	4.4.2
	iar.targets.msp430.MSP430X_small	IAR for MSP430	5.60.x
	ti.targets.arm.elf.M4F	Texas Instruments	5.2.2
	iar.targets.arm.M4F	IAR for ARM	7.40.1
	gnu.targets.arm.M4F	GCC (in CCS)	gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2014q3
TI-RTOS for TivaC	ti.targets.arm.elf.M4F iar.targets.arm.M4F gnu.targets.arm.M4F	Texas Instruments	5.2.2
		GCC (in CCS)	gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2014q3
		IAR for ARM	7.40.1
TI-RTOS for SimpleLink™ Wireless MCUs	ti.targets.arm.elf.M4 iar.targets.arm.M4 gnu.targets.arm.M4	Texas Instruments	5.2.2
		GCC (in CCS)	gcc-arm-none-eabi-4_8-2014q3
		IAR for ARM	7.40.1

Validation Information

This release was validated using the following components:

CCS 6.1.0
IAR for ARM 7.40.1
IAR for MSP430 5.60.1
xdctools_3_31_01_33 (in CCS 6.1 or included in TI-RTOS stand-alone installer)
Wolf CyaSSL 3.2.0

Known Issues

There are some known issues with this release:

IO parking is not yet implemented for GPIO pins. This results in higher electrical current measurements in LPDS.
The 3rd party vendor that produces the SSL product integrated with TI-RTOS, wolfSSL, Inc. has renamed their CyaSSL product to wolfSSL, with a corresponding change to the product's API. However, this release of TI-RTOS is integrated with the old API, so users will need to download the older CyaSSL product from here.

ID	Severity	Headline
SDOCM00099460	S2 - Major	ping flood causes Concerto board to stop receiving interrupts
SDOCM00101155	S2 - Major	usbmsc_SDOCM00100493 fails regression testing (Intermittent spin lock in USB library's USBHCDPipeRead() for LM4F232)
SDOCM00104253	S2 - Major	MSP430 Launchpad ez-FET UART emulation issue at buadrate > 28.8kbps
SDOCM00104686	S2 - Major	UART in Stellaris launchpad not working above 9600 baud when used with windows apps that use rxtxSerial.dll driver
SDOCM00106264	S2 - Major	UART driver doesn't handle RX FIFO overruns.
SDOCM00107701	S2 - Major	TI-RTOS filters out BIOS' 64T libraries
SDOCM00108323	S2 - Major	TI-RTOS uninstall broke my build environment
SDOCM00113569	S2 - Major	Multi-master support for I2C drivers
SDOCM00115790	S2 - Major	SPI loopback shows erroneous data for MSP432
SDOCM00115853	S2 - Major	UART_write for CC3200 may retransmit the last character at baudrates > 115200
SDOCM00105778	S3 - Minor	MSP430 UART logging to System Analyzer does not work
SDOCM00107276	S3 - Minor	ROV for GPIO exception if opened before Board_initGeneral() is called
SDOCM00107319	S3 - Minor	makedef's XDCTOOLS_JAVA_HOME default is bad in supplied examples for stand-alone installer
SDOCM00107337	S3 - Minor	BIOS and UIA examples will not link with default MSP430FR5969 linker file.
SDOCM00107366	S3 - Minor	Grlibdemo on MSP430FR5969LP not working for IAR
SDOCM00108264	S3 - Minor	UIA hello and stairstep examples do not build for some MSP430 devices
SDOCM00115174	S3 - Minor	TI-RTOS Makefiles should not use semihosting (or an easy option to enable/disable it)
SDOCM00115670	S3 - Minor	TivaC 1294's USB MSC host is really slow
SDOCM00115875	S3 - Minor	FatSD raw example for MSP430FR5969 doesn't work in IAR
SDOCM00115956	S3 - Minor	Need to look into USB disconnect testing for USB examples

Examples

There are driver examples for the following boards:

CC3200_LP
TMDXDOCKH52C1
TMDXDOCK28M36
EK_TM4C123GXL
DK_TM4C123G
DK_TM4C129X
EK-TM4C1294X
MSP_EXP430F5529LP
MSP_EXP430F5529
MSP-EXP430FR5969LP
MSP-EXP432P401R

There are also kernel and instrumentation examples for all supported devices.Please refer to the Getting Started Guide for more details.

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 TI-RTOS Support Forum http://e2e.ti.com/support/embedded/tirtos/default.aspx or other forums in http://e2e.ti.com/ as needed.

Last updated: May 05, 2015