5.
Connect the Launchpad to your computer with a USB to mini cable. A green LED and a red LED
should be on as shown below:
6.
With the TCA8424_API project active, open the debugger and then press run
a.
The launchpad is now running the firmware necessary to interact with the GUI.
If the launchpad is running and VCC is not connected the I2C communication will fail. You must pause
the debugger, reset the cpu and then press “play” again.
6.5
Setup the GUI
1.
Extract the “TCA8424 GUI.zip” contents to the destination folder of your choice.
2.
Double click the setup.exe folder that was extracted in the previous step.
3.
The following window will pop up. Click “Install”
