Hello,
I hve just gotten my TSW1200 and ADS5560EVM boards and was trying to set up the TSW1200 first but after I installed the software from the enclosed CD and attached the USB cable then powered up the board I got a Driver warning. Although it can be seen as a TI high Sp device in Device Manager it says the drivers are not installed. My System runs Window 7 and is a 64bit machine is this the problem?
Stephen
Hi,
This is a copy of those instructions:
We can now get the TSW1200 running on a Windows 7 PC, but with a little more manual intervention than I wish to see. The process would be as follows:
1) install the TSW1200 User Interface that came on the CD with the hardware, or (better and recommended) download it from the TI web at: http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tsw1200gui-sw.html This has the original VCP (Virtual Com Port) for the USB connection that would not install on the Windows 7 PC.
2) download the files for the new driver for the VCP install at: http://focus.ti.com/docs/toolsw/folders/print/tusbwinvcp.html There are several items at this page, but the one we want is TUSBWINVCP_WDF-Single_Driver_v3-2.exe, which is literature number swrc094f. This is a zip file of a single setup.exe installer. I could attach the zip file to this post, but it is about 10MB. So I would suggest downloading it.
3) open that zip file and run the setup.exe program. This setup program is *not* the installer for the actual drivers for the TSW1200 VCP for Windows 7. This program simply copies a bunch of files to a location on your computer, and copies what *is* the actual installer which you will need to run shortly. The default location for these files to be copied will be on the C: drive in Program Files/ Texas Instruments Inc. Examine the directory hierarchy of the files and folders that were copied. You should see something like the following:
The new USB VCP installer is now designed to work on Windows XP, Vista or Win 7, and on 32bit or 64 bit versions. One of the sys files it will need is different for each operating system, so the installer will query the PC as to the operating system and go to the appropriate subfolder to get the right sys file. Also, the installer will need some information specific to the actual hardware to look for, so there is an inf file in the common sections that identifies the vendor ID and product ID for the TSW1200 hardware. We need to put this information in place before we can run the actual VCP installer.
4) in the Common-32 subfolder, delete the files usbuart3410.inf and umpf3410.i51. In their place, copy in the new versions of these two files that I have attached to this posting. The new inf file is needed to identify to the installer the specifics of the TSW1200 hardware. The new i51 file is the firmware that is to be downloaded to the USB chip on the TSW1200 at run time.
5) Repeat step 4, only this time with the Common-64 subfolder. The same new versions of the inf and i51 files belong in both the Common-32 and Common-64 subfolders.
6) Now go back up the hierarchy to the DISK1 subfolder and run the setup.exe that you find there. *This* is the actual installer for the USB VCP that needs to run. Ultimately I need to bundle this in with the main TSW1200 installer but that does not work yet. After this step, the virtual com port should be installed on the machine, and when the TSW1200 is connected to the PC by the USB cable, the PC’s found-new-hardware-wizard should automatically recognize the TSW1200 and assign it a com-port. This worked fine on my Windows 7 machine in the lab.
7) Open the PC’s hardware device manager to see that a com port is assigned to the TSW1200, if you wish to check the installation. Or just run the TSW1200 User Interface and see that the com port connection worked and there is a com port number reported in the lower left status pane of the User Interface.
I apologize for having to do the manual steps of the installation at this time.
Regards,
Richard Prentice
