Hi Matthew,
The USB FET tool is not supported right now. As you found, USB to
parallel port converters are useless for any of the development tool and
industrial control applications of PC parallel ports. They don't offer
the port level compatibility that would be required. Even if you adapt
the software for them, their latency is much too high to achieve
reasonable performance.
Getting the USB FET tool to work under Windows probably doesn't require
a great deal of work. Getting it to run under Linux may require a new
device driver. I have not yet investigated how much effort that would take.
Right now, I have no suggestions for using mspgc with the newer
notebooks that lack parallel ports.
Regards,
Steve
Matthew Kavalauskas wrote:
Does msp430-gdbproxy support the MSP-FET430UIF, which is the USB JTAG
tool from TI? As near as I can tell it does not. If that is the case,
does anyone have a suggestion for how to program a chip from my
Windows XP laptop which does not have a parallel port? I have tried
USB to parallel port converters (for other purposes), but they don’t
seem to give me a parallel port and are instead for printers.
Thanks,
Matt
