Using xdsprobe with the XDS560 and XDS510 (Rev. A)

This application report familiarizes the reader with the xdsprobe utility. This utility may be used to troubleshoot Code Composer Studio™ 2.00 and 2.10 initialization problems that normally manifest themselves as an error message that indicates that the target DSP cannot be initialized. This problem may be caused by incorrect configuration or hardware problems in the JTAG scan path. The xdsprobe command line utility may be used to analyse, verify, and solve JTAG scan path problems in single processor or multiprocessor targets. This utility may be used with four types of emulation controller: TI's XDS510 and XDS560 emulation controllers; those third party emulation controllers or DSP boards that were developed using TI's 510-class Sourceless-EPK; the third party 560-class emulation controllers or DSP boards that were developed using TI's Source-EPK. Some of the common hardware and software problems that may be exposed are broken or unreliable JTAG scan paths, lack of EMU0/1 pull-up resistors, incorrect link delay parameters, circuit board layout errors and schematic mistakes and erroneous configuration files.