readme.txt

Application of Bootstrap Loader in MSP430 With Flash Hardware and Software Proposal

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 Copyright (C) 1999-2000 Texas Instruments, Inc.
 Author: Volker Rzehak
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This archive contains the following files:

- readme.txt
  This file...

- EXE-Directory
  Holds the executable demonstration program with some example TI TXT files.
  - EXE\BSLDEMO.EXE
    Executable demonstration program.
  - EXE\PATCH.TXT
    TI TXT file with patch for first version(s) of bootstrap loader.
  - EXE\test.txt
    Example TI TXT file.
  - EXE\int_vect.txt
    Interrupt vector file of example.
  - EXE\BL_130V.TXT
    TI TXT file with a loader that can be loaded into the RAM of 
    a MSP430F149 device using the following command line. Using this loader 
    the verification of programmed data is done internally while programming.
    Thus the verification step can be omitted (see example command line) which
    can reduce programming time significantly.
    > BSLDEMO -bBL_130V.TXT +epr test.txt

- SOURCE-Directory
  Holds source code of demonstration program.

  - SOURCE\bsldemo.c
    Source of main program.
  - SOURCE\bslcomm.c
    Source with bootstrap loader communication functions.
  - SOURCE\bslcomm.h
    Header file of bootstrap loader communication functions.
  - SOURCE\ssp.c
    Source with standard serial protocol functions.
	(Is directly included into bslcomm.c. Do not compile separately!)
  - SOURCE\ssp.h
    Header file of standard serial protocol functions.
  - SOURCE\BSLDEMO.DSP
    MS-Visual C++ 5.0 Project settings.
  - SOURCE\BSLDEMO.DSW
    MS-Visual C++ 5.0 Workspace settings.