Silicon Labs ToolStick370DC User Manual

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TOOLSTICK C8051F370 DAUGHTER CARD USERS 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 th e ToolStick Base Adapter while the Base Adapter
Always connect and disconnect the ToolStick Base Adapter from the PC by holding the edges of the
boards.

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.
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2. Contents

The C8051F370 ToolStick DC (TOOLSTICK370DC) kit contains the following item:
ToolStick C8051F370 Daughter Card
A ToolStick daughte r card requires a ToolStick Base Adapter to communicate with the PC. ToolStick Base Adapters can be purchased separately 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 target microcontroller and application circuitry are located on the daughter card. Some daughter cards, such as the C8051F370 Daughter Card, are used as general-purpose development platforms for the target microcontrollers and some are used to demonstrate a specific feature or application.
The C8051F370 Daughter Card includes a pair of LEDs, a potentiometer, a resistor across the C8051F370’s current DAC output pin, and a small prototyping area which provides access to all of the pins of the device. This prototyping area can be used to connect additional har dwar e to th e micr ocontroller and u se the dau ghte r card a s a development platform.
Figure 3 shows the ToolStick C8051F370 Daughter Card and identifies the various components.
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Figure 3. ToolStick C8051F370 Daughter Card

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4. Getting Started

The necessary software to download, de bug and communicate with the t a rget micr ocontroller m ust be do wnloaded from www.silabs.com/toolstick. The following software is necessary to build a project, download code to, and communicate with the target microcontroller:
Simplicity Studio Keil C51 Tools ToolStick Development Tools
The software described above is provided in the Simplicity Studio and 8-bit microcontroller studio download packages. The ToolStick Development Tools selection includes example code specifically for the ToolStick daughter card, documentation including user ’s guides and data sheets, and the ToolStick Terminal application. After downloading and installing these packages, see the following sections for information regarding the software and running one of the demo applications.

5. Software Overview

Simplicity Studio greatly reduces development time and complexity with Silicon Labs EFM32 and 8051 MCU products by providing a high-powered IDE, tools for hardware configuration, and links to helpful resources, all in one place.
Once Simplicity Studio is installed, the application itself can be used to install additional software and documentation components to aid in the development and evaluation process.

Figure 4. Simplicity Studio

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