installing msp430 on win7.htm

How to install the correct driver for the MSP430F2013 on Windows 7 opera ng system.

1. Install the so ware for the MSP430F2013 by inser ng the CD and selec ng to install or run the autorun.exeprogram.

2. This opens (using the 2008 CD) the following screen. Select the IDE So ware and click on IAR WorkbenchKickStart. If you have a newer CD, skip the images below and go to instruc on #4.

3. Which opens another screen and you want to download Version 4.09A underlined near the top of thescreen.

4. For those with a newer version CD the disks opens what appears to be a website but it is only accessing thedisk. The circled link (in black) takes you to the download of IAR KickStart.

http://myweb.wit.edu/johnsont/Classes/244/Installing_MSP430_on_Win7.htm

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5. A er IAR Workbench KickStart is installed you can access the program in the All Programs window:

6. This will allow you run the program but when it comes me to run and debug the program, the driverneeds to be installed. Some computers will fail to load the correct driver even though the Device Managershows a driver is dedicated to the device:


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7. Fortunately, the drivers for MSP430 are included when the IAR So ware was installed. Right click and selectUpdate Driver So ware:

8. Select Browse my computer for driver so ware (do not allow it to search automa cally).

9. Here is the complete path on this computer:

10. Once you browse to this loca on select WinXP in the TIUSBFET directory then click next.


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11. Windows will give you and indirectly Texas Instrument a hard me for not paying their price for worry-freeinstalla on…

12. Clicking past this we get:

13. And in the Device Manager we see a second MSP-FET430UIF driver installed in the Mul -port serialadapters. This differs from the other driver which is a Serial Port.

14. We have to select the TI USB FET Adapter during setup in the Op ons for the KickStart so ware.


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15. I’ve seen this same driver installed in the Port (COM & LPT) directory of the Device Manager and otherloca ons. This past summer I went to a TI workshop and installed a new driver for an advanced device andnow I just have one that works for the MSP30.

16. Also, whenever you switch and use someone else’s MSP430 you will have to download a driver for thatdevice. They appear to be isolated instances for each installa on. Shown below is my Device Manager a erinstalling another MSP430F2013. Both MSP430 were NOT inserted at the same me, I was merely pluggingthe 2nd one in to test it on my computer.

17. Before Windows 7, on Windows XP you had to wait for the opera ng system to discover the device a secondme so that both instances (parallel and serial) were installed otherwise the MSP430 wouldn’t work. With

the advent of Windows 7, TI has gone over to using one driver.


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