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New guy here - no prior experience with PSoC Creator or this family of hw.

I just inherited an existing 3-part project (launcher, stack, app) and am trying to simply build it to get oriented with the system. I was able to build the launcher project with no problem. When I build the stack project, I get this error:

Error: flash row: 1024 is either already used or does not exist.

The command 'cyelftool.exe' failed with exit code '1'.

The device in question (CY8C4128LQI-BL543) has 256k of flash, which, at 256 bytes/row (as seen on the cyelftool.exe command shown in the output), translates to 1023 rows - namely, row 1024 is surely out of range. My project does not appear to be actually out of flash resource, though, as the Resource Meter for the project shows flash at 50.9% and SRAM at 55%. I took a look at the map file and found that the last code in the flash area were constants located at 0x20182 - roughly half of 0x40000 - consistent with that 50% metric.

There was one tiny block of data later, at the very high end of flash:

*(.cyloadablemeta)

.cyloadablemeta

                0x0003ffc0       0x40 .\CortexM0\ARM_GCC_541\Debug\cymetadata.o

                0x0003ffc0                cy_meta_loadable

But at size 0x40, it should fit exactly in that last little bit of space, ending neatly at 0x3FFFF and not overrunning my 0x40000 limit.

I ran cyelftool on the command line to see if it had any verbosity arguments - hoping to get it to tell me the name of the thing it was working on when it overran memory - but found nothing in its help output that looked promising.

I'm seeking guidance for even how to investigate this issue. Thank you!

Here's the section header output from objdump.

It confirms that DATA/TEXT parts occupy just over 0x20000, half the flash. The cyloadablemeta section butts up against the end of flash space, but appears to end just at 3FFFFF - no reason to think cyelftool would need to allocate anything after row 1023.

1561 .eh_frame     00000004 000000000001ea84 DATA

1562 .rodata       00000ad8 000000000001ea88 TEXT DATA

1563 .constdata    00000d18 000000000001f560 DATA

1564 .conststring  00000091 0000000000020278 DATA

1565 .ramvectors   000000c0 0000000020000000 BSS

1566 .btldr_run    00000004 00000000200000c0 BSS

1567 .data         00000658 00000000200000c8 DATA

1568 .bss          00001250 0000000020000720 BSS

1569 .heap         00002500 0000000020001970 BSS

1570 .stack        00000800 0000000020007800 BSS

1571 .cyloadermeta 00000040 00000000f0000000 DATA

1572 .cyloadablemeta 00000040 000000000003ffc0 DATA

1573 .cyflashprotect 00000080 0000000090400000

1574 .cymeta       0000000c 0000000090500000

1575 .cychipprotect 00000001 0000000090600000

1576 .stab         00000084 0000000000000000

1577 .stabstr      00000117 0000000000000000

1578 .debug_aranges 00000a90 0000000000000000

1579 .debug_info   0000a11b 0000000000000000

1580 .debug_abbrev 0000236c 0000000000000000

1581 .debug_line   00002f84 0000000000000000

1582 .debug_frame  0001e154 0000000000000000

1583 .debug_str    000077e9 0000000000000000

1584 .debug_loc    00004325 0000000000000000

1585 .debug_ranges 00000a38 0000000000000000

1586 .comment      00022b4b 0000000000000000

1587 .arm_vfe_header 000001a8 0000000000000000

1588 .ARM.attributes 0000002a 0000000000000000

1589 .shstrtab     0000bed1 0000000000000000

1590 .symtab       00078210 0000000000000000

1591 .strtab       0005e400 0000000000000000

1592 .cychecksum   00000002 0000000090300000

Environment:

PSoC Creator  4.1 Update 1 (4.1.0.3210)

Culture: English (United States)

OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.16299.0

CLR Version: 4.0.30319.42000

GCC 541

Note: project was originally created with a prior version of PSoC Creator and components. The 4.1.0.3210 version of PSoC Creator required that the components be updated to their latest ones, which I allowed.

EDITS:

1. ObjDump output added

2. Version and component update note added (2018-02-13 @ 1612 (GMT-5))

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Appreciate if anyone who had a same experience like this.

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The APIs for that are available in PSoc-Creator 4.0.

I think the issue is, that the device is a BLE4.1 device. Is it possible to upgrade the stack-firmware to BLE 4.2 or is it neccessary to change

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Hi,

I have written a PSOC4 BLE program to turn on a LED for 5sec and turn off and go to deep sleep. I know during deep sleep the PSOC4 BLE will not send any signal. How do I access the PSoC4 BLE microcontroller using an Android Device using BLE for further control?

Hi,

I am working on Uart rx interrupt.I send the data through terminal,then my code receive the data and print on the console.

But my code problem is when i  send the data upto 15 bytes but reads upto 8 bytes only,if i change the buffer size in uart  receiver settings morethan 8 bytes than

the my code always executes the interrupt only ,i.e it is not coming out from interrupt.

so,please help me to resolve the issue.

Thanks in advance.

please find the attachment

I try to connect DMA tr_out to PulseConverter, or EdgeDetector, or PWM stop. In any case I get error : Failed to place ff blocks. If I remove connection from DMA tr_out to any block the project will compile and build correct.

How can I resolve this issue ?

Hello,

For a project I need to read out the sensor values of the MPU 6050.

After doing some research I downloaded the project in this topic from 3 months ago MPU6050 w/PSOC4 - Implementing a Filter

The only problem I am facing is that I am getting errors that there are too few arguments in the I2C functions provided by PSoC after I build the project.

For example code for reading a byte of data:

void I2CReadBytes(uint8_t devAddr, uint8_t regAddr, uint8_t length, uint8_t *value) {

     uint8_t i=0;

     I2C_MPU6050_I2CMasterSendStart(devAddr, I2C_MPU6050_I2C_WRITE_XFER_MODE);

     I2C_MPU6050_I2CMasterWriteByte(regAddr);

     I2C_MPU6050_I2CMasterSendRestart(devAddr, I2C_MPU6050_I2C_READ_XFER_MODE);

     while (i++ < (length-1)) {

          *value++ = I2C_MPU6050_I2CMasterReadByte(I2C_MPU6050_I2C_ACK_DATA);

     }

     *value = I2C_MPU6050_I2CMasterReadByte(I2C_MPU6050_I2C_NAK_DATA);

     I2C_MPU6050_I2CMasterSendStop();

}

These functions expect more parameters now than the project that I downloaded from 3 months ago, while the project is still PSoC 4.

Is it possible to avoid these errors so I can use this project to read the data?

Thanks for reading

Sebastiaan

Hello,

I wonder if there are any good document comparing PSoC4 and PSoC1 by each feature.

I prefer the document showing merit/advantage of PSoC4 over PSoC1 .

Could anyone help?

Best Regards,