KT33814UG User’s Guide Rev. 2.0 4/2013
Freescale Semiconductor
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Installing SPIGen Freeware on your Computer
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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 3
. The text at the top is the name of the configuration file loaded. The left side
panel displays folders that group user interfaces. The interfaces in the pre-installed MC33814 folder pertain
specifically to the board under discussion.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 3. SPIGen GUI
