Texas Instruments SWRU157D - Manual

5 If this warning appears, the option “Continue Anyway” must be selected in order to install the driver. This dialog will be shown when everything has been successfully installed. Click Finish to close the wizard.

6 3.2. Windows Vista The first time the USB dongle (sink) is connected to the PC, the new HW is detected and the system will ask to install driver software. Select “Locate and install driver software”. Select “I don’t have the disc. Show me other options.” Select “Browse my computer for driver softw...

7 The required “inf” file will be installed together with the application. Browse to the directory of the application and select the sub directory “Drivers”. Click Next to continue. Select “Install this driver software anyway” At the end the software should be successfully installed. Click Close to ...

8 4. User Interface The user interface is developed to be as simple as possible with only a few buttons and input fields. When the eZ430-RF2480 dongle is connected to the PC, the application will search for an applicable COM port and start reading if a connection is successfully established. Below i...

9 4.1. Toolbar Pause capturing data from the serial CO M port Stop capturing data from the serial C OM port Start capturing data from the serial C OM port D rop down list with all the available C OM ports Refresh list of serial CO M ports C onfiguration Open application user m anual About inform ati...

10 4.3. Data logging and playback It is possible to capture the data traffic on the serial port to a log file for debugging and playback purposes. The log file is pure ASCII text which displays a time-stamp and the raw data in hexadecimal format. Data logging is started by clicking the button . The ...

13 4.6. Network View The PC demo will always display one node on the top of the screen, the Sink. Below the Sink the presence of additional network nodes will be displayed as they are detected. Be aware that nodes may place themselves on top of existing nodes when they first appear, but can easily b...

14 voltage and a timestamp from when the last message was received from this node. The source node will blink each time a message is received by the connected Sink node. The role of each node is also indicated if the mouse is held over the node for more than a second. The nodes are connected with ar...

16 When the eZ430-RF2480 is removed, these device drivers should disappear from the view in the Device Manager. If they don’t disappear, a restart of the PC will be necessary. Check that the “MSP430” device is available in the drop down list of available COM ports. The serial COM port. The composite...

17 5.6. Not able to start the application If an error message about missing the msvcp80.dll is received, or the error message shown below appears when attempting to start the application, you may be required to install an additional package from Microsoft. The package contains some additional runtim...

18 Document History Revision Date Description/Changes swru157 08/03/2008 Initial release. swru157a 08/05/2009 • Added logging and playback • Changed document name • Added support for CC2530 Z- Stack Sensor Demo • Added status bar swru157d 25/08/2009 Changed document title