Release Notes for Code Composer Studio™ v6.1.0

Release Notes for Code Composer Studio™ Theia v1.5.0

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 five sections:

Contents

General Information. 1

System Requirements. 1

General Information. 1

Component Versions. 1

General Information

CCS Theia is a new Integrated Development Environment (IDE) based on Theia IDE framework. CCS Theia v1.5.0 uses a modified version of Theia-IDE. ( https://theia-ide.org/ )

CCS Theia has a more limited set of features and limited set of devices. Each release will add support for new features and new devices.

For additional information and support, please go to:

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

Please note that Code Composer Studio Theia v1.5.0 is recommended for production development with MSPM0, and MSP430 devices. CCS Theia includes optional support for Wireless connectivity (not WiFi), Sitara, and mmWave devices. Evaluation support for C2000 devices is included.

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 13 (Ventura)
macOS 14 (Sonoma)

Debug Probe Support

XDS110
Segger J-Link

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/ccs_linux_host_support.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 v1.5.0 Changes

What’s New

Realtime Object View

o Table support with enhanced cell rending – icon and colored text

o Line graph, bar graph, and pie chart support

Multi-core debug

Pin and Clone for Memory, Registers, Disassembly, ROV, and Expressions
Synchronous core group operations
Launch initialization script
Ability to set core hidden for project-less debug
Ability to set launch to load symbols only

Scripting Console
Stack Usage view
Register bitfield
Debugger flash properties action buttons
Detect device fault states in C29 device
EnergyTrace++/HDR for CC13/CC26 devices
ARM core trace (ETM) advanced use cases for AM2x and AM6x

· Breakpoints improvements

o Improved multi-core breakpoint support

o Global breakpoints

· Memory view: Virtual memory scrolling support

· Project improvements

o Add support for manually adding files (link and copy) to a project

o Support for project specific Clang-tidy checkers

o Support C2000 TI Clang migration from TI compiler

o Clang-tidy improvements for C29 project migration

Known Issues

· Trace decoding may take up to 20 seconds for large captures.

· PC Hibernation affects CCS Theia inter-process communication with Resource Explorer opened. You may see a message “Error communicating with Cloud Agent “. Also, a notification panel in bottom right will be shown indicating that CCS Theia has gone offline. Please choose Restart option to restart CCS Theia and re-establish IPC communication.

· On Linux, the file browse dialog may open behind the main CCS Thiea window. The application may appear to hang if this happens, but the issue can resolved by bringing the browse dialog to the front.

General Information

· New Theia-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 such as breakpoints, callstack, variables, registers, memory and graphs.
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 4.0.0 LTS, C2800 Compiler Tools v22.6.1 and MSP430 Compiler Tools v21.6.1.LTS compilers are bundled

· Device Support

o MSPM0: Recommended for production development.

o MSP430: Recommended for production development

o Wireless connectivity (not WiFi): Optional

o C2000: Evaluation, not recommended for production development.

Component Versions

ARM Clang Compiler Tools	v4.0.0.LTS
C2000 Device Support	v6.22.0.0
C2000 Emulation Flash	v1.0.0.5
C2000_FEATURE_METADATA	v6.22.0.0
C2800 Compiler Tools	v22.6.1.A23259
C29 Compiler Tools	v0.1.0.sts
C29 Device Support	v1.0.2.0
C29 Feature Metadata	v1.0.2.0
C6000 Compiler Tools	v8.3.3
CC26xx Device Support	v3.20.01.32
CC3220 Device Support	v1.0.5
CC323X Device Support	v1.0.5
CC32xx Device Support	v1.0.8
CC32xx Driver Support	v1.0.8
CCS Documentation	v1.5.0.00010
CCS Theia Installer Dependencies	v1.0.0.20180710000000
CCS Utilities	v1.0.0.20221028
Debug Server	v12.8.0.3512
Debug Server Flash	v12.8.0.3512
Eclipse	v1.5.0.202407270237
IDE_METADATA	v1.0.1.0
InstallBuilder	v24.3.0
LPCS_FEATURE_METADATA	v3.20.01.32
Main CCS Theia Installer	v1.5.0.20240816091047
MSP430 Build Header Support	v11.1.0.20211104
MSP430 Compiler Tools	v21.6.1.LTS
MSP430 Debug Support	v11.1.0.20211104
MSP430 Device Support	v11.1.0.20211104
MSP430 GCC Build Header Support	v11.1.0.20211104
MSP432 Debug Support	v8.2.3.0
MSPM0 Support	v1.10.00.06
MSPM0_FEATURE_METADATA	v1.10.00.06
Node.js	v18.16.0
SEGGER J-Link	v7.96.0
Sitara MCU Device Support	v1.3.5
Sitara MCU Feature Metadata	v1.3.5
Sys Config	v1.21.1.3756
TARGET_METADATA	v1.5.1.0
TargetDB Default Props	v12.3.0.N202303010900
Theia	v1.5.0.20240821102021
TI Cloud Agent	v0.5.4914
TI Emulators	v12.8.0.00194
TIREX Desktop	v4.19.0.202408191600
YAROV	v2.0.0.20240806144408

Windows 10 and Windows 11 are all trademarks and/or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

OSX, macOS are trademarks of Apple.
MSPM0, MSP430, GUI Composer, C2000, Code Composer Studio, XDS110 are trademarks of Texas Instruments.

Ubuntu is a trademark of Canonical.

J-Link is a trademark of Segger.