
User’s Guide
SWRU321A
– May 2013
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4 Getting Started
Before connecting the SmartRF06EB to the PC via the USB cable, it is highly recommended to
perform the steps described below.
4.1 Installing SmartRF Studio and USB drivers
Before your PC can communicate with the SmartRF06EB over USB, you will need to install the
USB drivers for the EB. The latest SmartRF Studio installer [1] includes USB drivers both for
Windows x86 and Windows x64 platforms.
After you have downloaded SmartRF Studio from the web, extract the zip-file, run the installer
and follow the instructions. Select the complete installation to include the SmartRF Studio
program, the SmartRF Studio documentation and the necessary drivers needed to communicate
with the SmartRF06EB.
4.1.1 SmartRF Studio
SmartRF Studio is a PC application developed for configuration and evaluation of many RF-IC
products from Texas Instruments. The application is designed for use with SmartRF Evaluation
Boards, such as SmartRF06EB, and runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems.
SmartRF Studio lets you explore and experiment with the RF-ICs as it gives full overview and
access to the devices’ registers to configure the radio and has a control interface for simple radio
operation from the PC.
This means that SmartRF Studio will help radio system designers to easily evaluate the RF-IC at
an early stage in the design process. It also offers a flexible code export function of radio register
settings for software developers.
The latest version of SmartRF Studio can be downloaded from the Texas Instruments website [1],
where you will also find a complete user manual.
4.1.2 FTDI USB driver
SmartRF PC software such as SmartRF Studio uses a proprietary USB driver from FTDI [2] to
communicate with SmartRF06 evaluation boards. Connect your SmartRF06EB to the computer
with a USB cable and turn it on. If you did a complete install of SmartRF Studio, Windows will
recognize the device automatically and the SmartRF06EB is ready for use!
4.1.2.1
Install FTDI USB driver manually in Windows
If the SmartRF06EB was not properly recognized after plugging it into your PC, try the following
steps to install the necessary USB drivers. The steps described are for Microsoft Windows 7, but
are very similar to those in Windows XP and Windows Vista. It is assumed that you have already
downloaded and installed the latest version of SmartRF Studio 7 [1].
Open the Windows
Device Manager and right click on the first “Texas Instruments XDS100v3”
found under “Other devices” as shown in Figure 1a.
Sele
ct “Update Driver Software…” and, in the appearing dialog, browse to
<Studio install dir>\Drivers\ftdi
as shown in Figure 1b.
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