[Tinyos-help] tmote jtag adapter and olimex's msp-jtag-tiny in OS X

[Eric Decker]

I tried to get the Olimex working on a linux box without luck.  I finally
revertedto using the TI USB JTAG.  I did examine a bit the drivers Olimex
provides for
windows and they are different from the TI ones so I suspect there is
enough
different that the Linux driver for the TI doesn't work.

You will also run into problems on Mac OS X because the tools that talk to
the JTAG haven't been ported over.  Namely the libraries and
msp430-gdbproxy.

We've gotten everything working by dual booting into Xubuntu 8.04 on the
mac.  We've
also heard that running Xubuntu 8.04 under VirtualBox or VM Server also
works.  We
tried running Xubuntu 8.04 on Parallels but the parallels usb driver has a
problem which
causes the Mac OS X kernel to panic when accessing the JTAG pod.  It
registers okay
but when actually accessing it is when the panic occurs.

eric

On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 2:00 AM, Erwing R. Sanchez
<erwing.sanchez at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
> I'm trying to debug a tmote (telosb) with olimex's msp-jtag-tiny
> (which is the USB jtag pod from olimex). I built myself the adapter
> to match the 8-pin header of the tmote with the 14-pin connector of
> the jtag device, but I'm not sure if i did it well beacause the
> tmote's schematic is not clear. According to it, the 6th pin of the
> jtag connector is undefined, and thus I didn't connect it to the
> olimex device...  has anyone built the adapter? it is ok to leave
> unconnected the 6th pin of the tmote's jtag 8-pin header?
> Besides, I've been having some trouble making the jtag device work on
> Mac OS X. I've seen that Olimex has plenty of documentation and
> drivers for windows (but not linux or OS X). I've seen some guides
> for configuring GDB to work with TI USB FET jtag device; does anyone
> know if the same procedure may work with olimex's device? any advice?
> thanks,
> Erwing
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-- 
Eric B. Decker
Senior (over 50 :-) Researcher
Autonomous Systems Lab
Jack Baskin School of Engineering
UCSC
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