MT-D21E
User Guide
Installation
Driver Installation
Windows
There are currently four USB composite device combinations that include CDC as well as a
CDC only device. Drivers are required for each of these five devices. The CDC only driver is
required by the bootloader. The drivers are signed and support both 32 and 64 bit versions of
Windows XP (SP3), Vista, 7, 8, and 10.
1.
If you do not already have the SAMBA bootloader installed, see below.
2.
https://www.mattairtech.com/software/MattairTech_CDC_Driver_Signed.zip
unzip into any folder.
3.
Plug in the board while holding down button A to enter the bootloader. The LED should light.
4.
Windows will detect the board. Point the installer to the folder from above to install the
bootloader driver.
5.
If you don't intend on using Arduino, you can skip the rest of this list. See Using Bossac
Standalone below.
6.
If you do not already have the test firmware installed, see Using Bossac Standalone below.
7.
Press the reset button to run the test firmware (blink sketch with CDCHID).
8.
Windows will detect the board. Point the installer to the folder from above to install the sketch
driver.
9.
Continue with SAMD Core Installation below.
Linux
1.
No driver installation is needed.
2.
On some distros, you may need to add your user to the same group as the port (ie: dialout)
and/or set udev rules.
3.
You MAY have to install and use Arduino as the root user in order to get reliable access to the
serial port.
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This is true even when group permissions are set correctly, and it may fail after
previously working.
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You can also create/modify a udev rule to set permissions on the port so
everyone
can
read / write.
4.
Continue with SAMD Core Installation below.
OS X
1.
As of this writing, only the 256 KB chip variants work with the OS X version of the upload tool,
bossac.
2.
First, you will need to open boards.txt and change mattairtech_mt_d21e_bl8k.upload.tool to
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