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DA1468x Getting Started with the Development Kit
User Manual
Version 7.0
23-Jul-2018
CFR0012
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© 2018 Dialog Semiconductor
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DA1468x
– Software Installation
6.1
Introduction
This Section describes the installation procedure for the drivers, the configuration of the serial port,
and all necessary steps to verify the connection with the PC as well as solutions to any problems that
may occur.
6.2
Requirements of the Development PC
For proper evaluation and application development using the DA1468x SoC and the ProDK an
external host is required. This external host must have an operating system already installed
(Windows or Linux) and USB ports as described in section
Internet connectivity is also highly recommended for proper driver and software installation.
6.3
Driver installation
6.3.1
Microsoft Windows
On the first connection to a host PC which is running Microsoft Windows and has Internet
connectivity, the system will detect several devices and will automatically install all necessary drivers.
If the system is configured to use Windows Update, this process may need several minutes to be
finished.
Figure 4: Windows driver installation
After driver installation is successfully completed, the system will pop-up a window similar to the one
presented in
. Please note that the COM port number assigned to the newly attached ProDK
mainboard might be different than the one shown in
, where the assigned COM port numbers
are COM4 and COM5. The COM port number can be found in Device Manager (
Control Panel >
Device Manager > Ports (COM & LPT)
) as shown in