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EVALKITST7590-Q1 description

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EVALKITST7590-Q1 description

The ST7590 reference design is available as a board set comprising:

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One main board with the ST7590 and the STM32

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One EVLALTAIR900-M1 as a power supply unit.

Evaluating with PRIME GUI

In addition to use as a developing platform for the PRIME compliant application, the

EVALKITST7590-Q1 can be used in a complete PRIME evaluation environment.

A typical evaluation environment is composed by two or more EVALKITST7590-Q1 devices

with a proper STM32 FW for a USB connection to the PC. The user can manage the PRIME

communication services connecting the PRIME GUI to the nodes.

The PRIME GUI software tool running on a PC can be used to evaluate the ST7590 power

line communication features of both the PRIME base node and PRIME service node.

Figure 4. Typical evaluation environment

6.1

VCP driver installation

In order to connect an EVALKITST7590-Q1 to the PRIME GUI running on a PC, the user

has to install the USB/UART adapter driver (if not installed yet) following the steps below:

Download the latest available “Virtual COM Port” (VCP) drivers from the ST website

(see 5. in Section 13: References on page 63.) and unzip them to a location on the host

PC.

Launch the setup file “VCP_V1.3.1_Setup.exe” to install the “Virtual COM Port” driver

on the PC.

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