I am not the “read the manual” kind of person, so I searched for energia + cc3200, found this:
http://energia.nu/pin-maps/guide_cc3200launchpad/
had a quick look at the instructions and started downloading/installing software. I’m runing windows 8.1 64bit, so I ‘ve installed drivers for FTDI via DPInst64.exe from cc3200_drivers_win
Then extracted energia-0101E0013-windows.zip and runned energia, selected correct COM, loaded blink sample, upload and….
Opening COM4
Read ACK failed
Failed to trigger bootloader
I later found this link which explains things:
CC3200 comes preloaded with a demo web server / access point. That's cool. I scanned for wifi on my Android, and simplelink, out of the box was there, working as it should…played with the demo apps, very nice way to start with these boards.
I continued with “project 0 guide” ..and realized that I had to move jumper from P58-VCC to SOP2. Tried to upload a blink sample code and..
Opening COM4
Getting storage list
Bootloader Version: 3
Silicon version ES1.32
Bootloader version is 2, 0, 3, 2
It's a CC3101 device: PG1.32
BlockSize is 4096, number of blocks is 64
erasing 1 blocks starting from 4
Switch to NWP bootloader complete
Silicon version ES1.32
Bootloader version is 2, 0, 3, 4
BlockSize is 4096, number of blocks is 16
erasing 12 blocks starting from 0
erasing file "/sys/mcuimg.bin"
deleting file "/sys/mcuimg.bin"
erase file completed
Downloading file "/sys/mcuimg.bin" with size 4128
..Download complete
However, still no led blink.. pressed reset, nothing changes, removed SOP2, pressed reset, and yes, we have a blink! :-)
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