Talk:EZ430 Emulator Upgrade

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Caolang said ...
I have done all the steps, the program announced that the flashing is done. The PC still recognizes the ez430 emulator as MSP-FET430UIF-VCP but now I cannot use it to debug the F2013 board any more. What happened to my emulator?

--Caolang 07:25, 7 April 2011 (CDT)

Tonyp12 said ...
Had to upgrade as it did not recognize a msp430G2302 Did as instructed, now it does not work at all. Piggy back of a Launchpad works tough.

--tonyp12 09:52, 15 June 2012 (CDT)

JMGross said ...
"The latest version of the eZ430 emulator is included with the eZ430-Chronos." This sentence might have been true when the page was written. However, quite some time has passed since. The G2 LaunchPad has received several EZ430 firmware updates since, and the FR boards also have an "EZ430" but likely not compatible. AFAIK, the LaunchPad does not (officially) support any MSP outside the F2xx or G2xx family. And the FR5xx devices are a completely different thing too.

Also, there has been a change in the Windows driver model lately. Instead of VCP, now CDC model is used for the debug connection (the application UART still provides a virtual COM port).

So updating the EZ430 emulator with any newer EZ430 firmware of a different source may render it useless.

--JMGross 16:56, 15 November 2013 (CDT)