TOOLSTICK530ADC Silicon Labs

ToolStick-F530ADC TOOLSTICK C8051F530A DAUGHTER CARD USER S GUIDE 1. Handling Recommendations To enable development, the ToolStick Base Adapter and daughter cards are distributed without any protective plastics. To prevent damage to the devices and/or the host PC, please take into consideration the following recommendations when using the ToolStick: Never connect or disconnect a daughter card to or from the ToolStick Base Adapter while the Base Adapter is connected to a PC. Always connect and disconnect the ToolStick Base Adapter from the PC by holding the edges of the boards as shown in Figure 1. Figure 1. Proper Method of Holding the ToolStick Avoid directly touching any of the other components. Figure 2. Improper Method of Holding the ToolStick Manipulate mechanical devices on the daughter cards, such as potentiometers, with care to prevent the Base Adapter or daughter card from accidentally dislodging from their sockets. Rev. 0.2 11/14 Copyright 2014 by Silicon Laboratories ToolStick-C8051F530ADC t Recommended for New DesignsToolStick-F530ADC 2. Contents The ToolStick-F530ADC kit contains the following items: ToolStick C8051F530A Daughter Card A ToolStick daughter card requires a ToolStick Base Adapter to communicate with the PC. ToolStick Base Adapters can be purchased at www.silabs.com/toolstick. 3. ToolStick Overview The purpose of the ToolStick is to provide a development and demonstration platform for Silicon Laboratories microcontrollers and to demonstrate the Silicon Laboratories software tools, including the Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The ToolStick development platform consists of two components: the ToolStick Base Adapter and a daughter card. The ToolStick Base Adapter provides a USB debug interface and data communications path between a Windows PC and a target microcontroller. The C8051F530A Daughter Card includes a pair of LEDs, a potentiometer, an LIN transceiver, a connector block for the LIN signals, a switch connected to a GPIO, and a small prototyping area that provides access to all of the pins of the device. This prototyping area can be used to connect additional hardware to the microcontroller and use the daughter card as a development platform. The board also includes a LIN transceiver and a circuit that doubles the +5 V from the USB interface to generate the 10 V supply needed for LIN communication. The terminal block, J2, allows developers to use an external LIN supply voltage instead of the voltage generated on the board. Figure 3 shows the ToolStick C8051F530A Daughter Card and identifies the various components. C8051F530A Power LED TOOLSTICK F530A DC GND VDD P1 Full Pin P0 PWR access Px.0 Px.1 Px.2 Px.3 Px.4 Px.5 Px.6 Px.7 D1 F530A GND D2 U2 LIN +12V P1.5 LIN Interface R4 P1.4 J2 P1.3 LED S1 P1.5 Potentiometer P1.4 Switch Figure 3. ToolStick C8051F530A Daughter Card 2 Rev. 0.2 t Recommended for New Designs