DLP-7970A boosterpack really not working with Launchpads

Kazola - 

if you have seen the behavior which you describe where you present a tag to the boosterpack antenna and the ISO15693 (green LED) lights up (on the boosterpack) and the LED1 on the -G2553 launchpad stops blinking, then you are reading the ISO15693 tag...so this sounds correct. 

See videos here ==> 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3q8J5JZBZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snCXlnCWbgk

regarding docklight - make sure you have it and your COM port (inside device manager) set up correctly...

here is the latest project which I can share, you will see there are two warnings which are occurring because i did not comment out declaring j and len in the iso14443a.c file (see lines 145 and 146) - and then this is because i commented out lines 160 through 177....if you put those back in and comment out lines 179 through 184, then you will be enabling the Type 4A NDEF reading and reporting instead of doing the Type 2 reading and reporting. 

just did not have time yet to fix the logic of doing both at the same time let me know how its working once you get that going and repost if you like your additions or innovations on this code project. 

 2337.TRF7970ABP_G2553.7z

Hi Josh,

it is nice to know you are working on this :) I'm working with 14443A tags. I was talking about the Launchpad LEDs not the boosterpack LEDs.

It has not been 24 hours since I received all this stuff so please tell me if I'm wrong in my following statements:

MSP430G2553 Launchpad

The boosterpack jumper is at J2. The UART jumpers are at HW Uart.

According to the MSP430F5529 Launchpad User Guide on page 19 / 61, the MSP430G2553 Launchpad cannot do hardware handshaking. However, according to the RFID BoosterPack TRF7970ABP with MSP430G2 Launchpad document, you have to configure the Launchpad this way. By setting at "none", it is working.

In addition, according to the code in main.c, you have to get rid of the jumper at P1.6 (LED2) in the MSP430G2553.

Even if these are not difficult things, I think this must be stated somewhere for new users, what is your opinion?

MSP430F5529 Launchpad

The boosterpack jumper is at J1.We have tried both populating and not populating the MSP430F5529 RTS and CTS jumpers, same result.

I do not know even which firmware I have to flash. There is one coming with NFCLink, but even if I have tested it, in another thread it says it is for the MSP430F5529 Experimenter's board.

I got another firmware you had patched from this thread. However, it does not work for me. In the firmware from The heartbeat RED led blinks, but I cannot connect from NFCPlayer (NFCStart:Fail) or DockLink. I have applied the UART configuration 115200, N, 8, 1, handshaking everywhere.

Could you please provide the gaps I'm missing, as well as a ZIP with a correct bundle for the MSP430F5529 Launchpad? Is there source code for this platform available?

Ok, let me know your opinions and solutions about this. Have a great day from Barcelona! :)

lets not get confused here...the -G2553 launchpad and the -F5529 launchpad don't share the same user guides...

the PPT you point to for the -G2553 + DLP-7970ABP is correct instructions for setting up the device, based on which version of the LP you have (v1.4 or v1.5)

we are in the process of releasing the -F5529 LP code on the web

if you focus on the -G2553 board first, we should be able to give you something later today for the -F5529

Hi Josh,

perhaps I have explained myself bad, but I'm not saying what you state.There are two kind of documents here, the launchpads user guides and the boosterpack's user guides.

They clearly do not share the same boosterpack user guides. My point is that the F5529 launchpad user guide clearly indicates G2553 does not have hardware handshaking :) Thus why in the G2553 DLP-7970ABP boosterpack user guide there are statements for such hardware handshaking in the MSP430G2553?

The UART settings are ok. What it is missing in the guide is the need for removing the LED jumper and that G2553 does not need hardware handshaking as stated in the boosterpack user guide.

Are we clear?

Hey Kazola,

kazola said:

What it is missing in the guide is the need for removing the LED jumper [on the G2553 LP].

This is correct, I'll make sure this gets added.  

kazola said:

... and that G2553 does not need hardware handshaking as stated in the boosterpack user guide.

I see the reference to this in the G2-BP Users Guide.  I'll have them remove this as well.  

I originally got confused here, but I see what you were saying:

kazola said:

My point is that the F5529 launchpad user guide clearly indicates G2553 does not have hardware handshaking :) 

 

Are you up and running on the G2553LP now?  

Thanks,

JD

Yes! MSP430G2553 Up and running and happy :) I hope soon I can help others in this forum. I have to start checking the code in deep.

However, there is still the issue of the MSP430F5529. I guess I cannot compile the NFCLink projects because I'm using the code size-limited version of Code Composer Studio (FAR PTR gives an error). But at least I really would like to test the NFCPlayer software.

I can flash the MSP430F5529 Launchpad but I can never complete the hardware handshaking in DockLight. Am I missing something? Which is the whole jumper configuration of the MSP430F5529 Launchpad for this purpose? Can you provide a .OUT image that is working? Your colleague told me perhaps TI could also provide a simple source code for today! It would be great the 2 things :)

Have a nice night from Barcelona!

That is nice!

I have just tested and it works.

Thus, I think the MSP430F5529Launchpad User Guide for this Boosterpack is also kind of not accurate as the MSP430G2553 one, since it keeps talking about UART / handshake / 115200.

Now I've been able to connect not to UART but to MSP430-USB-example (com17 in my setup).

Have a nice day, I will mark this thread as solved for the TWO launchpads :)

Thanks for the feedback kazola,

I'll pass this on to the marketing guys and work on getting NFClink for the 5529LP up on the web.  

I think they just used the wrong device manager capture for the 5529LP version.

 

This is what my device manager looks like when I am running NFClink.  You have to connect to the Virtual COM port (COM55 for me).  Yours looks slightly different, maybe because you have a different USB driver.  But if you can connect to NFCPlayer than you are good to go.  

Thanks,

JD

Should be using this inf for USB, correct?

I have the same problem for my launcpad msp-exp430g2 and the DLP-7970ABP, do we have to load a different firmware in the msp430g2553? I have confused about that...