RS232 Adapter
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4. Software Setup using a RS232 Serial Adapter
The Silicon Laboratories Integrated Development Environment (IDE) along with other software tools are provided
for device development and debugging. The IDE is available for download from the Silicon Laboratories website
and is also available on microcontroller development kit CD-ROMs. Once the IDE has been installed and the hard-
ware has been connected as shown in Section 3, follow the steps below to built a project, connect and download to
a target board using the Serial Adapter.
1. Select
Project
→
Open Project...
to open a previously
saved project.
2. Before connecting to the target device, several connec-
tion options may need to be set. Open the
Connection
Options
window (shown in Figure 3) by selecting
Options
→
Connection Options...
in the IDE menu.
3. Select RS232 Serial Adapter (EC2) in the “Serial
Adapter” section.
4. Choose the correct COM Port from the drop-down list and
select the desired Baud Rate.
5. Next, the correct “Debug Interface” must be selected.
Check the Debug Interface corresponding to the Silicon
Laboratories device on the target board.
6. Once all the selections are made, click the OK button to
close the window.
7. Click the
Connect
button in the toolbar or select
Debug
→
Connect
from the menu to connect to the
device.
8. Download the project to the target by clicking the
Download
Code
button in the toolbar.
9. Save the project when finished with the debug session
to preserve the current target build configuration, editor
settings and the location of all open debug views. To
save the project, select
Project
→
Save Project As...
from the menu. Create a new name for the project and
click on
Save
.
Figure 3. Connection Options
