MAX6955EVKIT Maxim Integrated, MAX6955EVKIT Datasheet - Page 2

• Manufacturer Part Number: MAX6955EVKIT
• Description: LED Lighting Development Tools Evaluation Kit for the MAX6955
• Manufacturer: Maxim Integrated
• Series: MAX6955r

Specifications of MAX6955EVKIT

• Product: Evaluation Kits

MAX6955 Evaluation Kit
Before beginning, the following equipment is needed:
• MAX6955EVKIT
• A 3.3VDC or 5VDC power supply
• PC with Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
• An available parallel port (female DB-25 connector
• A standard 25-pin, straight-through, male-to-female
1) Connect a cable from the PC’s parallel port to the
2) Install the supplied CD into the CD drive of your PC
2
Central
Semiconductor
Diodes Inc.
Fairchild
Semiconductor
Lumex, Inc.
Scientific Software
Tools, Inc.
TDK
on back of PC)
cable to connect the PC’s parallel port to the
MAX6955 EV kit board
MAX6955 EV kit board. Use a 25-pin, straight-
through, female-to-male cable.
and run INSTALL.EXE. When the installer window
shows up on the screen, press the INSTALL button.
The MAX6955 program files are copied and icons
are created in the Programs section within the Start
menu. When you see the self-extracting DLPortIO
driver install window appear on the screen, press
the Yes button. This automatically unpacks the com-
pressed files and runs the DLPortIO driver installer.
If using Windows NT, 2000, or XP, you must have
administrator privileges on your PC. If you do not,
then contact your system administrator to allow
installation. You need to restart your PC after
installing the DLPortIO driver.
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Procedure
3) Connect a 3.3VDC or 5VDC power supply between
4) Start the MAX6955 EV kit program by double click-
5) The program automatically detects the MAX6955 EV
6) The MAX6955 EV kit board and MAX6955 EV kit soft-
The EV kit software’s main window, shown in Figure 1,
allows on-the-fly text and numeric entry and also allows
access to all the relevant registers for easy configuration.
The controls on the left side of the software’s main win-
dow control U1 and similarly, the controls on the right
side of the software’s main window control U2. Each reg-
ister has its own tab in the order of the MAX6955’s
address map. A 2-wire operation field is present at the
very bottom of the software’s main window, which shows
the results of the last 2-wire operation.
In the upper left-hand corner of the software’s main
window is the Alphanumeric Entry for U1 group box.
This group box has five main controls:
• Plane group box
• U1 Address (write) combo box
• U1 Address (read) combo box
• Alphanumeric entry field
• Decimal Point checkbox and individual decimal
The first control is the Plane group box, which allows
the user to select which plane to write to. The radio but-
ton choices in the Plane group box are P0 and P1, P0,
and P1. It is important to note that once one of these
plane radio buttons is selected, the software automati-
cally takes the text or numbers that exist in the
Alphanumeric Entry field and writes them to the display.
The second and third controls are the U1 Address
(write) and the U1 Address (read) combo boxes.
These device-address combo boxes default to 0xCA
for write and 0xCB for read. If you modify the default
device address, change the jumper settings on JU1
and JU2 on the MAX6955 EV kit board. If the default
address settings are changed on the board, the user
must also manually select the correct device address
the VCC and GND pads on the MAX6955 EV kit
board.
ing its icon located in the Programs section within
the Start menu.
kit board and displays 2-wire Hardware Detected in
a green font.
ware should automatically display MAX6955 EVKIT.
point checkboxes
Alphanumeric Entry for U1
Software Description