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TI-RTOS 2.14.01.20 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 GA release of TI-RTOS.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: This is a pre-release version of software for the CC1310, and it should not be used in production of CC1310 devices. The CC1310 production release software is in its final stages of development and verification, and it should be expected that radio-specific timings and parameters will change in that release. This notice does not apply to the CC2620/30/40/50.

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 being released (i.e., for 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
SDOCM00117012Change CC3200 driver to not require BIOS lm4 timer
SDOCM00117566Doc LPRF SensorTags need to use the DevPack, not the SmartRF06
SDOCM00117572tirtos.mak has a bad default IAR installation directory
SDOCM00117626TI-RTOS wiki is out of sync with the GSG/UG
SDOCM00117913Buffered UART drivers calls Hwi*_restore twice when calling UART_read()
SDOCM00118014CC3200 linker files need to update the amount of SRAM stated
SDOCM00118305Power.xs on CC3200 is pulling in the Timestamp module unconditionally
SDOCM00118406CC3200 TIRTOS power policy broken for Clock tickperiod of 5ms or larger
SDOCM00118407Tiva and CC3200 board files must not include xdc/cfg/global.h


Upgrade and Compatibility Information

The following are some known compatibility issues between this release and previous releases. In addition, please check out the TI-RTOS Support Wiki for descriptions of some known issues.
None noted.

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

The following are some known issues with this release. In addition, please check out the TI-RTOS Support Wiki for descriptions of some known issues.

IDSeverityHeadline
SDOCM00099460S2 - MajorPing flood causes Concerto board to stop receiving interrupts
SDOCM00101155S2 - MajorTest usbmsc_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.
SDOCM00108323S2 - MajorTI-RTOS uninstall broke build environment
SDOCM00115790S2 - MajorSPI loopback shows erroneous data for MSP432
SDOCM00116795S2 - MajorBuild steps for MSP430 that use eUSCI drivers need to be documented
SDOCM00116814S2 - MajorDocumentation for UART UART_RETURN_NEWLINE needs to be updated to require setting UART_DATA_TEXT
SDOCM00118245S2 - MajorMSP430 I2C driver possibly gets stuck in the Hwi
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


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: August 21, 2015