SPMB250-A1EVAL View Datasheet(PDF) - STMicroelectronics
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MFG CO.
SPMB250-A1EVAL
STMicroelectronics
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Installation procedures
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Installation procedures
UM0562
3.1
Installing the FTDI driver
The dongle integrates a USB controller from FTDI to communicate with the host computer.
To communicate with the dongle, the FTDI drivers must be installed on the host. FTDI
provides drivers for Windows, Linux, BSD, Macintosh, and Windows CE. Windows users
require the virtual COM port (VCP) drivers.
If the necessary drivers are not already installed on the PC, they can be downloaded from
the driver section of the FTDI Chip web site. After the file has completed downloading to a
folder on the PC, unzip the file.
Plug the dongle into an available USB slot on the PC. The operating system detects the new
hardware and prompts for the location where the driver files can be found. With the browser,
select the root of the driver directory that was unzipped previously and follow the on-screen
instructions.
After installing the driver, the dongle appears as a COM port in the Windows device
manager. Multiple dongles may be connected to the USB ports of the same computer
simultaneously. In this case each dongle will be assigned a different COM port identifier.
The example in Figure 5 shows one dongle connected to the PC and assigned COM27 as
its “USB Serial Port”.
Figure 5. Virtual COM port number
Device Manager Window
Virtual COM
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