developing with Texas Instruments ez430-RF2500 development kit

[Samudra Haque]

Well, I did search harder and found 
http://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Generating_and_Loading_MSP430_Binary_Files, 
will try that out, but if there are any ez430 users out there - would 
like to hear your tips.

On 4/26/2017 8:22 AM, Samudra Haque wrote:
> 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
>