SLLU043B 1 Overview The TUSB3410UARTPDK is a product design kit (PDK) intended to showcase the TUSB3410 as a compact USB to serial interface bridge. Together with TI’s Virtual COM Port (VCP) software, it produces a turnkey, configurable USB/serial bridge solution.
Be sure to run the appropriate version of the installer depending on your version of Windows (Windows 98/ME or Windows 2000/XP). The installer places both the driver and a firmware file that will be downloaded to the EVM when it is attached. Fig. 2 shows the typical system setup. TUSB3410UARTPDK User’s Guide 3...
“Found New Hardware” dialog whenever it sees a new combination of these three values. If the VCP installer setup was run before attaching the EVM, the installation will occur automatically. If the installer was not run first, guide Windows to the correct INF files within the installer directory. TUSB3410UARTPDK User’s Guide...
“VCP device” and also as a new COM port, as shown in Fig. 3. Figure 3. Enumeration on Windows 98 For the Windows 2000/XP driver, it enumerates as a “multiport serial adapter”, and also as a new COM port, as shown in Fig. 4. TUSB3410UARTPDK User’s Guide 5...
In order to resolve these common conflicts, as well as enable the use of both the VCP software and the new utility on the same machine, TI has changed the PID reported by the EVM to “341A”. An EEPROM is now included on each TUSB3410UART EVM to implement this change. TUSB3410UARTPDK User’s Guide...
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To determine the version of the Windows 2000/XP driver, locate the “Multi-port serial” device in the Device Manager, double-click, and click on the “Driver” tab. Look at the last subfield in the value of the “Driver Version” field (the number after the last decimal). Figure 5. Windows Driver Properties TUSB3410UARTPDK User’s Guide 7...
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(Only two digits are allowed in the field, and the leading 0 is dropped. As a result, this number rolled to 0 with v100 of the driver.) Text files within the driver installer also document the version of the driver. TUSB3410UARTPDK User’s Guide...
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