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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:

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). 
* 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.

Defects Fixed in this release:

IDHeadline
SDOCM00114703update TI-RTOS simplelink docs overview to have better description and links to CC26xx driverlib docs
SDOCM00115378IAR for ARM compiler tools should move to 7.40.x for CC2650 support
SDOCM00115634MSP432 Power should put TI-RTOS-specific code in a separate library
SDOCM00115651CC3200 Power should check for conflicting user-explicit configuration of Clock or Timestamp proxy
SDOCM00115733I2C_Mode should be taken out of I2C.h and moved into implementation specific .h files
SDOCM00115822remove CC26xx PG 2.0/2.1 driverlib from the product
SDOCM00116048ti.tirtos/package.xs should "loadPackage" ti.drivers.ports.tirtos to work correctly with the "closure" tool
SDOCM00116106SPI driver does not allow MSP432 to reach LPM3
SDOCM00116134update 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:

Dependencies

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


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:

Known Issues

There are some known issues with this release:
IDSeverityHeadline
SDOCM00099460S2 - Majorping flood causes Concerto board to stop receiving interrupts
SDOCM00101155S2 - Majorusbmsc_SDOCM00100493 fails regression testing (Intermittent spin lock in USB library's USBHCDPipeRead() for LM4F232)
SDOCM00104253S2 - MajorMSP430 Launchpad ez-FET UART emulation issue at buadrate > 28.8kbps
SDOCM00104686S2 - MajorUART in Stellaris launchpad not working above 9600 baud when used with windows apps that use rxtxSerial.dll driver
SDOCM00106264S2 - MajorUART driver doesn't handle RX FIFO overruns.
SDOCM00107701S2 - MajorTI-RTOS filters out BIOS' 64T libraries
SDOCM00108323S2 - MajorTI-RTOS uninstall broke my build environment
SDOCM00113569S2 - MajorMulti-master support for I2C drivers
SDOCM00115790S2 - MajorSPI loopback shows erroneous data for MSP432
SDOCM00115853S2 - MajorUART_write for CC3200 may retransmit the last character at baudrates > 115200
SDOCM00105778S3 - MinorMSP430 UART logging to System Analyzer does not work
SDOCM00107276S3 - MinorROV for GPIO exception if opened before Board_initGeneral() is called
SDOCM00107319S3 - Minormakedef's XDCTOOLS_JAVA_HOME default is bad in supplied examples for stand-alone installer
SDOCM00107337S3 - MinorBIOS and UIA examples will not link with default MSP430FR5969 linker file.
SDOCM00107366S3 - MinorGrlibdemo on MSP430FR5969LP not working for IAR
SDOCM00108264S3 - MinorUIA hello and stairstep examples do not build for some MSP430 devices
SDOCM00115174S3 - MinorTI-RTOS Makefiles should not use semihosting (or an easy option to enable/disable it)
SDOCM00115670S3 - MinorTivaC 1294's USB MSC host is really slow
SDOCM00115875S3 - MinorFatSD raw example for MSP430FR5969 doesn't work in IAR
SDOCM00115956S3 - MinorNeed to look into USB disconnect testing for USB examples


Examples

There are driver examples for the following boards:
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