Note, that only lines without comments (without semicolon on the front ) are used by software. All
lines with comment are ignored. The FPA’s serial numbers and FPA’s indexes can be listed in any
order and with gap like FPA-1, FPA-5 etc. without FPA-2, 3 etc. Minimum one valid FPA with
correct ID or SN must be specified. Up to sixteen adapters can be declared. When the FPA’s
configuration file is created then file should be saved using name starting from FPA and with
extention ini e.g FPAs-setup.ini.
Connect all required adapters to USB connectors and run the FlashPro-Multi-FPA-Demo.exe demo
software. First the DLL instances should be opened and all connected FPA’s should be assigned to
desired FPA’s indexes. When the button ‘FPA assigment’ is pressed, then the DLL function named
F_OpenInstancesAndFPAs( FileName );
is called. This function is taking list of defined FPA’s numbers or IDs from the FPAs configuration
file and assigning all adapters to desired FPA indexes (1 to64). Number of instances to be opened
is calculated automatically, one per available and valid adapter. On described example with two
asdapters in the ‘FPAs selector’ will display two valid adapters with list of used FPAs’ serial
numbers or COM port for the MSP-FET430UIF. All, others FPA-x fields will be disabled. In this
example only two DLL instances becomes opened. Valid FPA indexes becomes 1,2 and ALL.
When the dll instances becomes opened and FPA adapter assigned to desired FPA’s indexes, then
the initialization procedure F_Initialization() must be called. It is recommended to initialize all
opened instances by calling function
F_Set_FPA_index(ALL_ACTIVE_FPA);
when more then one FPA adapter is used, or
F_Set_FPA_index(1);
when one FPA (assigned to index 1 by default) is used
prior to initialization function
F_Initialization();
On the demo program initialization procedure all these procedures are called when the button ‘1.
Initialization’ is pressed. Now adapters are ready to take other commands. In the demo above the
‘Autoprogram’ button has been used to download code simultaneously to two target devices
MSP430F1232 via two types of programming adapters - USB-MSP430-FPA and TI’s MSP-
FET430UIF. See programming report in the Report window - under FPA-#1 report taken from first
adapter, and under FPA #2 - report taken from the second adapter. In reality always the same type
adapters will be used, but this example showing flexibility of the API-DLL, that allows to swap
adapters and use application software with different adapters without modifying an application
software.
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