These release notes contain valuable information which may not be included in other product documentation. This information will assist you in the use of Code Composer Studio™ Theia.

The release notes are divided into six sections:

 

Contents

General Information. 1

System Requirements. 1

Hardware. 1

Device Support. 1

Operating System.. 1

Installation. 1

CCSTheia v1.2.0. 1

What’s New.. 1

Bug Fixes. 1

Known Issues. 1

General Information. 1

Component Versions. 1

 

 

 

General Information

CCS Theia v1.1.0 uses a modified version of Theia-IDE ( https://theia-ide.org/ )

For additional information and support, please go to:

https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/users_guide_ccs_theia/index.html

System Requirements

Hardware

	Memory	Disk space	Processor
Minimum	4GB	2.5GB	2.0GHz single core
Recommended	8GB	5.0GB	2.0GHz dual core

Device Support

Please note that Code Composer Studio Theia v1.1.0 only supports MSPM0 devices.

Operating System

Please note that Code Composer Studio Theia is a 64bit application and thus will not run on 32bit operating systems.

Windows

• Windows 11 64bit
• Windows 10 64bit

Linux

Supported distributions include:

• Ubuntu 22.04 64bit
• Ubuntu 20.04 64bit

Code Composer Studio Theia will run on other distributions but those are the officially supported and tested distributions. For more details on installation instructions as well as debug probe and device support please see this article on Linux Host Support.

macOS

Versions Supported

Each Code Composer Studio Theia release is validated against a set of macOS releases. This release was validated with:

• macOS 12 (Monterey)
• macOS 13 (Ventura)

Debug Probe Support

• XDS110
• Segger

Details of the macOS releases, debug probes and devices supported is available here.

Installation

Please note that use of anti-virus software or a firewall may cause issues during installation.
McAfee software in particular has been especially troublesome.
If possible, disable anti-virus and firewall software during installation.
If not, use of the Offline Installer is strongly recommended.

On Windows:

If you are using an Offline CCS Theia Installer, the zip file in which it is
distributed must first be extracted:

1. Right-click on CCSTheia1.x.x.xxxxx_win64.zip and select "Extract All...".
2. Enter the directory where you wish to extract the files.
3. Click on Extract.

Once extraction has successfully completed, proceed with the installation steps below.

To install Code Composer Studio Theia:

1. Run ccs_theia_setup_1.x.x.xxxxx.exe.
2. Choose where you want to install.
3. Select the components you wish to install.

On OS X:

Please visit https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/ccs_macos_host_support.html

 

The offline installer is now distributed as disk images (.dmg files)

1. Right-click on CCSTheia1.x.x.xxxxx_osx.dmg and select "Open”.  This will open the disk image and mount it.

To install Code Composer Studio Theia:

1. Run ccs_theia_setup_1.x.x.xxxxx by clicking on the application in the Finder
2. Choose where you want to install.
3. Select the components you wish to install.

On Linux:

Please visit https://software-dl.ti.com/ccs/esd/documents/users_guide_11.1.0/index.html

before installing CCS Theia on Linux. It contains important information on
installing CCS Theia on different Linux distributions, including CCS Theia dependencies that may need to be installed first.

Before installing CCS Theia, the tarball file in which the CCS Theia Installer is distributed must first be extracted:

untar CCSTheia1.x.x.xxxxx_linux-x64.tar.gz and extract all files.

e.g.  tar xfz CCSTheia1.x.x.xxxxx_linux-x64.tar.gz

Once extraction has successfully completed, proceed with the installation steps below.

Note: To facilitate the installation of emulation drivers, it is necessary to run part of the installation process as root.
You may if you wish install all of CCS Theia as root. However, it is preferred that you first install CCS Theia as a normal user and then install the drivers as root.

To install Code Composer Studio Theia as a normal user and emulation drivers as root:

1. Run ccs_theia_setup_1.x.x.xxxxx.run as a normal user.
2. Choose where you want to install.
3. Select the components you wish to install.
4. Navigate to directory <Install-Folder>/ccs/install_scripts.
5. As root, execute script "install_drivers.sh".

To install all of Code Composer Studio Theia as root:

1. Run ccs_theia_setup_1.x.x.xxxxx.run as root.
2. Choose where you want to install.
3. Select the components you wish to install.

CCSTheia v1.2.0

What’s New

·         Theia IDE update to v1.40

·         Energy Trace for MSPM0 (Windows only)

·         Core trace for MSPM0 (Windows and Linux)

·         Project system: File specific build options support

·         Improvements to source lookup path configuration

·         Real-time mode and continuous memory accesses (where supported by device)

·         Watchpoint support

·         Multi-instance of RTOS objects

·         Memory allocation view

Bug Fixes

Known Issues  

·         Register view may appear blank the first time it is opened, please close and re-open the view. This only happens first time register view is opened.

·         PC Hibernation affects CCS Theia inter-process communication. You may see a message “An unexpected error occurred in TI Cloud Agent! Please click one of the buttons below.“ with buttons to Save And Reload, Reload or Exit. Please choose Save and Reload option to restart CCS Theia and re-establish IPC communication.

General Information

·         New Theia-IDE based IDE:

• Simple, easy-to-use environment
• Compatible with VS Code® extensions:
• You may need to configure proxy settings to access open-vsx.org where Theia enabled extensions are hosted.
• Source code navigation:
• Debug views (breakpoints, callstack, variables, registers, memory)
• Target Configuration View
• Project-less debug support
• New features are being added with every release, please check What’s New section for details.
• Compatibility:
• Project System is fully compatible with existing Code Composer Studio projects, meaning that existing projects (or example projects in SDKs) can be imported into CCS Theia. Workspaces are not compatible.
• Simply import your existing projects or examples from the SDK and get started
• Debug: Project based debugging is supported by providing same single click Debug Active Project action as in CCS 12.x. Project-less debug, ability to start a debug session from target configuration file (ccxml) is supported.  
• Workspace: CCS Theia is using different underlying framework as such workspaces are not compatible between CCS products based on Eclipse. However, projects are fully compatible.
• CCS Theia supports ability to open a folder that holds CCS Projects or open a folder where projects should reside.
• Similar to VS Code, CCS Theia can open multiple distinct folders that hold projects. This is documented in VS Code as multi-root workspace. However, project names need to be unique across different folders.

·         Compilers

o    TI CLANG 3.2.0 LTS compiler is bundled

·         Device Support

o    MSPM0

 

Component Versions

name	version
ARM Clang Compiler Tools (linux64/osx/win64)	V3.2.0.LTS
CCS Certificate (win64)	vmaster
CCS Installer (linux64/osx/win64)	v1.2.0.20231012131617
CCS Installer Dependencies (win64)	v1.2.0.20231012131617
CCS Installer Dependencies (linux64/osx)	v1.2.0.20231012131617
CCS Utilities (win64)	1.0.0.20230823
CCS Utilities (linux64/osx)	1.0.0.20230823
Debug Server (linux64/osx/win64)	v12.5.0.3202
Debug Server Flash (linux64/osx/win64)	v12.5.0.3202
Eclipse (linux64/osx/win64)	v4.23.0.0
Theia-ide  (linux64/osx/win64)	V1.40
IDE GUI Composer (linux64/osx/win64)	v3.3.0
InstallBuilder (linux64/osx/win64)	v21.9.0
JRE (linux64/osx/win64)	v17.0.2
MSPM0 Support (linux64/osx/win64)	v1.02.00.05
MSVC 2017 Redistributable (x64) (win64)	v14.34.31938
Node.js (linux64/osx/win64)	V18.16.0
Shared Device Support (linux64/win64)	v1.1.7
Segger J Link	V7.88.0.c
Sys Config (linux64/osx/win64)	v1.18.0.3246
TI Cloud Agent (linux64/osx/win64)	V0.5.4507
TI Emulators (linux64/osx/win64)	v12.6.0.00002
TIREX4 Desktop (linux64/osx/win64)	v4.15.0.202310191339

 

 

 

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