Installing The Launchpad Drivers - Texas Instruments MSP430 Student Manual

Lab 8
Installing Energia
If you already installed Energia as part of the workshop prework, then you can skip this step and
continue to Lab 8a –
These installation instructions were adapted from the Energia Getting Started wiki page. See this
site for notes on Mac OSX and Linux installations.
https://github.com/energia/Energia/wiki/Getting-Started
Note: If you are attending a workshop, the following files should have been downloaded as part
of the workshop's pre-work. If you need them and do not have network access, please
check with your instructor.

Installing the LaunchPad drivers

1. To use Energia you will need to have the LaunchPad drivers installed.
For Windows Users
If TI's Code Composer Studio 5.x with MSP430 suport is already installed on your computer
then the drivers are already installed. Skip to the next step.
a) Download the LaunchPad drivers for Windows:
LaunchPad CDC drivers zip file for Windows 32 and 64 bit
b) Unzip and double click DPinst.exe for Windows 32bit or DPinst64.exe for Windows 64 bit.
c) Follow the installer instructions.
Installing Energia
2. Download Energia, if you haven't done so already.
The most recent release of Energia can be downloaded from the
Windows Users
Double click and extract the energia-0101EXXXX-windows.zip file to a desired location.
(We recommend unzipping it to: C:\TI\energia-0101E00xx ).
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Gettings Started with the MSP430 - Using Energia (Arduino)
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