Evaluation Board
User Guide
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Figure 5. Choosing the device driver
There are times that the operating system would load a wrong
driver. The reason for that is the OS detects multiple drivers
that can be used by the hardware, in our case it would be the
evaluation board. If that happens, multiple drivers can be seen
in this window. Select only the
AD9915 Firmware Loader
,
and then click
Next
. A Hardware Installation box will then
appear, just click
Continue Anyway
. Lastly, close the wizard
by clicking
Finish.
RUNNING THE SOFTWARE UNDER
WINDOWS 7
The software is compatible on Windows XP, however you can
run it using Windows 7 by
running Windows XP under
Windows 7
. You can do this by using the
Windows Virtual
PC
. The main website is indicated below.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtual-pc/
They have specific instructions for the installation depending
on the version of Windows 7 that your computer has, so refer to
the site for the detailed information.
When you have installed the Windows Virtual PC, it would
typically look like Figure 6
.
Install the software within the virtual machine by following the
same procedure as indicated in the software installation guide.
Then connect the USB connector of the evaluation board. You
will then notice that the USB interfaces are not shown in the
notification area at the right side of the taskbar. Since you are
using a virtual machine, all of the USB notifications can be
found at the pane at the top of the desktop window. Just
“
Attach
” the
Version 1.2.2.0
USB device, and you would be
able to get the software running.
Figure 6. Evaluation Board Software in Windows 7 using Virtual XP machine
