Laird BL600 Series, Quick Start Manual

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BL600 Development Kit
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Loading a
smart
BASIC Heart Rate Service Application
Quick Start Guide
v1.1
This guide demonstrates how to load a
smart
BASIC Heart Rate Service application (hrs.heart.rate.SB) onto the
BL600 development board and view the data on a BT4.0 iPad/iPhone. For this example, the heart rate data
originates from a fictional sensor attache
d to the UART in the format “hr 60”.
Requirements

PC running Windows XP or later
 UWTerminal 6.50 or later

hrs.heart.rate.SB
smart
BASIC sample application

Library files inside the “lib” folder

USB A to mini B cable
 iPad 3/ iPhone 4S or newer with BT4.0 support

Internet connection on iOS device (to download the BL600 app)

DVK_BL600 User Manual

FTDI Drivers http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/VCP.htm (for some versions of Windows)
Development Kit Setup
To setup the BL600 development kit (DVK), follow these steps:
1. Configure the BL600 development kit to the following settings:

DC/USB power source switch (SW4) set to USB

VCC_1V8/VCC_3V3 switch (SW5) set to VCC_3V3
 CR2033/VCC_3V3/1V8 switch (SW6) set to VCC_3V3/1V8
2. Connect one end of the mini USB cable to CON4 on the DVK board and the other end to your PC.
3. Follow the on screen prompts. Windows may prompt you to install FTDI drivers.
When complete, the DVK board appears in the Windows device manager as a
USB Serial Port
.
4. Note the port number shown in the device manager.
5. Extract UWTerminal and run the program.
6. Configure the COM port with the port number seen in device manager with the following settings
(
Figure 1 ):

Baudrate
–
9600

Stop Bits
–
1

Data Bits
–
8

Handshaking
–
None
Figure 1: Comms Settings