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Setting Up Development Environment for Sitara Processor AM335x Starter Kit

Getting Started with Code Composer

The development environment we need for the processor is called Code Composer and the link to download can be found here: http://www.ti.com/tool/download/CCSTUDIO

The instructions are fairly strait-forward, however, it will feel a little different from other downloads.

  1. Early on it will suggest restarting your computer for proceeding with the download. I decided to keep going and see if it worked. It didn't. I would also suggest restarting your computer before the download because it helped me.
  2. Normally when we install software on our computers we tend to use default options, hoever, there will be a custom install option that you will want to use. This will allow you to select only the Sitara Processor that we instead of a bunch of others, and greatly limit how much gets installed on your computer. Remember our device is a Sitara Processor AM335x Starter Kit. It will be listed there as an option.
  3. For me, the install froze, and never started up again. Only after I tried again did it go smoothly. This may or may not happen to you, but just know that if it does you can keep trying.

Now that you have it installed you can watch the getting started video that is on the main page. It is nice because it shows you how to connect to your device.

Setting Up Your Laptop for Development

Before you can start developing you need to be running a Linux machine. I used the Virtual Machine option from this website in order to do this. For the ISO file I choose a basic Ubuntu OS. https://www.techspot.com/guides/809-run-linux-from-usb-drive/ The steps are very clear and strait-forward, with a couple exceptions:

  1. It would not allow me to choose LIVE MODE. So, following the documentation I found in another part of the site, I chose a persistence of 500.
  2. I had this error - "Raw-mode is unavailable courtesy of Hyper-V". If you also get this you will need to disable some features in your computer settings. I went into "Turn Windows Features On or Off" in my Windows Settings. Then I unchecked the boxes for:
  • 'Hyper-V'
  • 'Containers'
  • 'Windows Subsystem for Linux'

I started off with just disabling Hyper-V, but it was not enough, and had to do the other ones as well. You may want to try disabling one at a time.

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