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IS-Dev Kit-8 User Manual
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3. Preface
The IS-Dev Kit-8 is a development kit designed to demonstrate the features of the SmartSwitch OLED rocker
as well as facilitate the incorporation of the rocker into new application designs. The OLED Rocker is best used
for displaying and navigating through a menu or for setting a level or a quantity.
This user manual will go through general features and rudimentary commands, like how to download images
and attributes, and then go into the more technical details of how the Dev Kit-8 operates.
Section 4 and 5 briefly describe the basic Dev Kit operations and provide a starter guide for programming the
Dev Kit with the most popular commands using the Universal Communicator program. These sections were
designed for those who wish to simply start using the Dev Kit without getting into the technical details.
Section 6, 7, and 8 covers communication and commands between the host computer and the Dev Kit
controller. Section 9 is the hardware and the schematic and section 10 and 11 are definitions and firmware
issues. There is also an appendix for understanding hexadecimal.
Universal Communicator
Universal Communicator version 1.4.2, and up is a free program provided by NKK Switches to help download
images and attributes to the Dev Kit controllers. It is available at
engineering@nkkswitches.com or at NKK
Switches’ SmartSwitch web site, http://www.nkksmartswitch.com/ . The program is designed to work with the
family of SmartSwitch Dev Kits. It can import bitmaps, convert them to the proper switch format, and then
download them to the controller. It can also handle attribute downloads. It can handle single or batch downloads
and has the most common commands as easy button interfaces. On the NKK SmartSwitch website documents
can be found for creating images as well as the manual for Universal Communicator that shows how to
download images and attributes. They can be found at:
http://www.nkksmartswitch.com/support/docs.asp .