UIA 1.01.01.14 General Availability Release Notes

Introduction

This is a GA release of UIA 1.01.01. 

Documentation

The following documentation is available:

• Getting Started
• System Analyzer User's Guide
• System Analyzer WIKI

Release notes from previous releases are also available in the "docs/relnotes_archive" directory.

What's New

1.01.01.14

• Added support for M4F (Elf)
  

1.01.00.04

• Added support for MSP430 (ae430X libraries only, no examples yet).
• Requires CCS 5.2 or higher 

1.00.04.35

• C28_float support
• Two new loggers
• ti.uia.sysbios.LoggerStreamer 
• ti.uia.sysbios.LoggerIdle
• Added -g to include symbols in the libraries
• Cleaned up top level build (was not passing in ccOpts)
• Do not get "lack of signature" warning when CCS finds the product
• xs scripts handle no timestamp in events now.
• Added LogUC.h for unconditional Log calls (better performance). This module will probably move into XDC at a later date, so during the build and warning is printed out.

Upgrade and Compatibility Information

Host Support

This release supports the following hosts:

Windows XP SP2/SP3

Windows Vista

Linux (Redhat 4 and 5)

Dependencies

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

• C6000 CodeGen 7.0.0 for COFF
• C6000 CodeGen 7.2.0 (or higher) for ELF
• Arm CodeGen 4.9.0 (or higher)
• DSP/BIOS 6.33.04.39 (or higher)
• IPC 1.24.02.27 (or higher)
• XDCtools 3.23.02.47 (or higher)
• NDK: 2_20_04_26 (for evm6472) (or higher)
• SysLink_02.10.03.20 (or higher)

Device Support

• EVM6472 
• evmT816X
  

• C64P (COFF and elf, big and little endian),
• C674 (COFF and elf, little endian),
• C66  (elf, big and little endian),
• C64T (elf, little endian),
• Arm9 (elf, little endian),
• M3   (elf, little endian),
• M4F (elf, little endian)
• A8F  (elf, little endian)
• A8Fnv  (elf, little endian)
• C28_float
• MSP430X (elf, little endian)

Validation Information

• C6000 CodeGen 7.2.0 
• Arm CodeGen 4.9.0 
• DSP/BIOS 6.33.04.39
• IPC 1.24.02.27 
• XDCtools 3.23.02.47
• NDK: 2_20_04_26 
• SysLink_02.10.03.20 

Known Issues

Examples

• Stairstep JTAG Stopmode: The Log data is obtained  when the target is halted
  
• Stairstep JTAG RunMode:  The Log data is obtained by reading the running target (only works on C64X+ and C66 CPUs).
  
• Stairstep Ethernet: The Log data is obtained by UDP packets. This example, as is, only works for the EVM6472 board. Refer to the bottom of the .cfg file on how to use on a different board.
  
• Stairstep Simulator: The Log data is obtained by temporarily stopping the target when the Log call is made. To build this example, the XDC version must be 3.22 (or later) or the RTSC Build-Profile must be "release" or "debug" (not "whole_program").
  
• Stairstep  ProbePoint: The Log data is obtained by temporarily stopping the target when the Log call is made. To build this example, the XDC version must be 3.22 (or later) or the RTSC Build-Profile must be "release" or "debug" (not "whole_program").
• LoggerStreamer: This example shows how to use the UIA LogUC (unconditional) APIs and LoggerStreamer. The example does not work with System Analyzer. It is meant to show how to use LoggerStreamer. It is up to the application to get the data to System Analyzer..

• Message:  The message example shows how to use MessageQ on EVM6472 and UIA. It is a single-image example that must be loaded on all cores. A message is sent from core 0 to core 1 to core 2...back to core 0. The UIABenchmark_start and stop is used on core 0 to determine the duration of a round trip. The Log data is obtained via Ethernet.
  
• SimpleTask: This example flips bits on an array. The example can be built for the DSP and M3 targets on the EVMTI816X. There are two examples. One uses LoggerCircBuf and one that uses LoggerSM. Refer to the readme.txt in packages\ti\uia\examples\evmti816x directory and the System Analyzer User Guide for more details.
  

• System Analyzer and UIA Tutorial 1: Logging events, benchmarking, controlling events.
  
• System Analyzer and UIA Tutorial 2: Graphing events, using JTAG Run-Mode (C64X+ or C66X emulation target)
  

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. 1.01.00.16_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 in the top level directory, ex. uia_1_00_00_38.

Subsequent releases of patch upgrades will be identified by the patch number, ex. UIA 1.00.00.26 with directory uia_1_00_00_38. 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, contact softwaresupport@ti.com

Last updated: July 11, 2012