developing with Texas Instruments ez430-RF2500 development kit

[Samudra Haque]

Hi Taco list members.

I've purchased a TI ez430-RF2500 development kit 
(http://www.ti.com/tool/ez430-rf2500 )which works out of the box with a 
sample sensor application in Windows 10 (once the sensor application 
gets to the serial port; for that you have to grant administrator 
privileges). All is well there. There are three pieces of hardware, a 
USB dongle, with a pass through connector to a RF-2500T target module, 
and a standalone RF-2500T target module that acts as a remote node when 
it powers up with a battery. The USB dongle is treated as a Flash 
Emulation Tool (FET) it seems.

I'm very much used to Netburner hardware products, and the NB dev kits 
have a USB connection which appears as a serial port, and you can use 
hyperterminal to talk to the board and get access to its boot 
loader/menu and using the NB integrated development environment -- flash 
it directly after you build a connection.

In the Texas Instruments world - what is the process to download a 
freshly compiled application?

I can't seem to find a good 1 page tutorial on this! Help! I am using 
the Code Computer Studio, a good product, free, but how do I move from 
compiling the binary code to flashing it directly into the USB FET ? 
Well, perhaps I have to use an external flasher -- in that case, could 
anyone provide me a cheat sheet on the steps required? I'm browsing the 
documentation on TI.com, but haven't found such a basic document that 
describes ez430 environment.

Simple, it must be, no?


73 de N3RDX