Installing SPIGen Freeware on your Computer
KTXSWITCH4UG User’s Guide Rev. 1.0 11/2013
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Installing SPIGen Freeware on your Computer
The latest version of SPIGen is designed to run on any Windows 8, Windows 7, Vista or XP-based operating
system. To install the software, go to
www.freescale.com/analogtools
and select your kit. Click on that link to
open the corresponding Tool Summary Page. Look for “Jump Start Your Design”. Download to your computer
desktop the SPIGen software as well as the associated configuration file.
Run the install program from the desktop. The Installation Wizard will guide you through the rest of the process.
To use SPIGen, go to the Windows Start menu, then Programs, then SPIGen, and click on the SPIGen icon.
The SPIGen Graphic User Interface (GUI) will appear. Go to the file menu in the upper left hand corner of the
GUI, and select “Open”. In the file selection window that appears, set the “Files of type:” drop-down menu to
“SPIGen Files (*.spi)”. (As an exceptional case, the file name may have a .txt extension, in which case you
should set the menu to “All Files (*.*)”.) Next, browse for the configuration file you saved on your desktop earlier
and select it. Click “Open”, and SPIGen will create a specially configured SPI command generator for your
evaluation board.
The GUI is shown in
Figure 4
. The text at the top is the name of the configuration file loaded. The left side panel
displays folders that group user interfaces. The process of loading the configuration file has assigned a list of
“Extra Pins” as well as a list “Quick Commands”, all of which are board-specific.
Figure 4. SPIGen GUI
