Hardware
The box contains, the usual 3 parts for a Trinamic evaluation kit, the Landungsbrücke controller board, the Eselsbrücke bridge board (a great place to monitor signals) and the target evaluation board, in this case the 2300. Along with these there is a power connector and a 3v stepper motor to test with. The motor is pre-wired with a connector for the evaluation board.
Initially this did not seem that different to the previous version but one of the first things I spotted was that the cable for the Landungsbrecke was USB-C. Trinamic had supplied a cable in the box and the board seems to work correctly with my USB 2.0 ports. The Landungsbrecke is also covered with test points which I don't remember from the previous version.
Software
I checked the version of the IDE I had installed, the title bar read 3.0.24 and the version on the website was 3.0.25 so I downloaded an installed the latest version. If you look at the release notes you will realise that this is an essential step as one of the items mentioned in the change notes is "Add TMC2300-EVAL" the board we are roadtesting.
https://www.trinamic.com/support/software/tmcl-ide/
https://www.trinamic.com/support/eval-kits/details/landungsbruecke/
Checking the firmware, I see that there version 1.0.7 installed but there is a newer 3.07 and a TMC2300-EVAL-KIT firmware. The latter has the filename TMC2300-EVAL_Firmware_Landungsbruecke_v1.07.hex which seems to match what is on our board. So not quite sure what to do here. Think I'll stick with the current version for the moment.
I also spotted a new feature in the IDE, there's a little volt meter in the toolbar at the top.
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