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MSP430F5438 experimental board usage

Igor Shvorin
Prodigy 75 points

Hello

I am using MSP-EXP430F5438 board on windows 7.The drivers seem to be installed correctly as seen below:

Yet I am unable to open a HyperTerminal (manually installed on windows 7) on the COM 1 port...

Did anyone seen this problem? How to overcome it?

Regards

Igor

  • 0
    Intellectual 845 points

    Igor Shvorin said:

    Yet I am unable to open a HyperTerminal (manually installed on windows 7) on the COM 1 port...

    Did anyone seen this problem? How to overcome it?

    Never had this problem. But can you be more specific? What is the error message you are getting?

  • 0 in reply to Shashank Revankar
    Prodigy 75 points

    Hi

    I am not getting any error.The HT(HyperTerminal) does not show a COM1 in a list of available ports and thus I am not able to open a HyperTerminal on the MSP port for UART communication...

  • 0 in reply to Igor Shvorin
    Intellectual 845 points

    Okay.

    I am guessing here that you are using the HT App for Windows 7.
    We had experience other problems with this app.

    I suggest you use TeraTerm (http://ttssh2.sourceforge.jp/index.html.en)

    Its a freeware. After you have installed the board software (which you did), I hope you have restarted the PC.
    Also if you dont get COM1 in the first go in TeraTerm, wait for 15 seconds and try again

    Keep posted

    Cheers 

  • 0 in reply to Shashank Revankar
    Prodigy 75 points

    Hi Thanks for good will to help, but it seems not working once again.

    Another piece of information is that I am running Win7 on MAC (via Parallels). Any other idea? 

  • 0 in reply to Igor Shvorin
    Intellectual 845 points

    Okay. That information is very essential

    I do not have any experience with Parallels, but I suppose its similar to VirtualBox.

    So you need to find something like Serial Port Settings in Parallels configuration.
    As you are connecting via USB, it may be useful to add a new USB device in Parallels.

    There are settings in VirtualBox to add USB device in virtual machine. I think they should be there for Parallels too 

  • 0 in reply to Shashank Revankar
    Prodigy 75 points

    Hi 

    Thanks a lot for help...

    I am able to map it to parallels otherwise the driver will nto be installed :-)

    I assume that the fact that Win 7 is detecting the MSP board and installs a required driver means that the USB port is mapped to Win.

    Any other ides?

  • 0 in reply to SPAMUSER
    Prodigy 75 points

    Thanks for information...

    May be TI guys have a bit easier way to resolve an issue?

  • 0 in reply to SPAMUSER
    Prodigy 75 points

    There is no collision there on USB...

  • 0 in reply to SPAMUSER
    Guru 227245 points

    Debasish Banerjee said:
    Or is it exclusively being used by an another application? Hope you won't mind.

    It is a common problem that soem badly designed mouse driver or smartphone-syncing app will hijack the port and block it for any other applicaiton.
    However, it then should show up in the port list and just give an error when the terminal program is actually trying to open it. At least it is this way for HyperTerm.

    BTW, there was a years newer version of HyperTerm available for free privat euse years ago, on which several bugs were fixed (inclusding the backscroll buffer quirks). However, ht emanufacturer doesn't offer it anymore.
    Microsoft kept delivering a stone-age version on XP (and Win7?), years after the newer one was out.
    I still use it (sometimes, I have 6 terminal windows open simultaneously, and all remember their positions and settings by the link on my desktop - somehting none of the replacements does) even though I also have putty (mostly for VPN tunneling) and some others.

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