Application; Help Page; Landing Page - Microchip Technology Protouch2 User Manual

Protouch2 GUI User Manual

9 Application

The following pages are available in the tool

9.1 Help Page

There is a Help menu on all the PT2 pages on the top right corner as shown below

9.2 Landing Page

This is the default screen that will be displayed once Protouch2 is launched. When
"USB 3.0 Hub Online" is selected in landing page, it moves to the configuration
page and looks for Microchip Hubs in the system after loading the appropriate
drivers.
There are two main use cases for PT2 USB 3.0 Hub application in Online mode
1. Configuration File Generation – User experiments with MCHP hub and
selects the features in the hub and provides new values for the configuration
items he wants to change.
2. Mass Programming – Tool for programming several MCHP Hubs for
production.
In Offline mode, the Hub need not be connected to the system in which the tool is
running. Only configuration generation can be done in this mode. Programming
cannot be done in Offline Mode.
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