Detailed Description
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SLAU790A – October 2018 – Revised December 2018
Copyright © 2018, Texas Instruments Incorporated
DAC53608 Evaluation Module
3.2
Software Description
This section describes the features of the DAC53608 EVM software, and discusses how to use these
features. The software provides basic control of all the registers and functions to the DAC53608 device.
3.2.1
Starting the Software
To launch the software, locate the Texas Instruments folder in the
All Programs
menu, and select the
DAC53608 EVM
icon.
Figure 9. DAC53608EVM GUI Location
shows that if the Analog EVM Connector is correctly connected, the status bar at the bottom of
the screen displays
Hardware Connected
. If the Analog EVM Controller is not properly connected or not
connected at all, the status bar displays
Hardware not connected
. In case the
Hardware not connected
status persists even after the hardware is connected, go to
Options-->Serial Port
and select the correct
port. On
Start Menu-->Control Panel-->Device manager
, this port will be listed under
PORTS (COM &
LPT)
as
ACCtrl (COMx)
. Do not select the port that is listed as
ACCtrl Console (COMx)
.
Figure 10. DAC53608EVM GUI Connection Detection
