Hi Archit,
Thanks.
3) As you likely know, there are a fair amount of connections and components surrounding the FTDI chip. My suspicion is that your board is missing something minor. I may be able to spot it.
4) If the device is in the boot mode, Get Mode, you should see periodic pulsing on the XRSn pin in an unprogrammed device (which highlights the device is getting reset by the watchdog timer). This will prove the C2000 is alive, powered appropriately, etc.
I don't understand the full design rationale of the immediate xds100v2 emulation circuit, but I've gathered some things over time. I think A:R7 is responsible for feeding TCK back to the FTDI device as 'TCK return'. If there was large distance between the FTDI chip and the C2000 device, I believe it would be correct to have that TCK signal go all the way to the C2000 and back before feeding into the FTDI chip at pin 24 (to compensate for skew). For the distances you're working and the speeds being used, this likely shouldn't matter. That being said, even in your case A:R7's equivalent, in your design, would need to exist.
Hopefully this helps!
Thank you,
Brett