SLAU533D September 2013 – April 2017
Connect the LaunchPad development kit to a host PC using the USB cable included with the LaunchPad development kit. The demo should work on any recent version of these operating systems. If prompted, let the PC automatically install software. The install is "silent", which means that the PC's operating system already has the drivers it needs.
When you connect a USB device to your computer, the computer goes through the enumeration process. During enumeration, the host asks for the device's USB descriptors to learn the device's identity, capabilities, and more. Using the descriptors, the device presents one or more USB interfaces to the host, where each interface is associated with either a pre-defined device class, or a custom driver. The major operating systems already ship with drivers for most common device classes, which is why you do not need to provide them during installation.
The F5529 LaunchPad development kit software demo presents two USB interfaces to the host:
All major host operating systems already have drivers for these classes.
Note: The eZ-FET emulator, application UART, and USB hub also enumerate when the LaunchPad development kit is attached. These are part of the LaunchPad development kit emulator, and so they always enumerate on Windows and Linux PCs, no matter what software is loaded into the MSP430F5529 device. In contrast, the MSC and HID interfaces described in this section are generated by the software demo application that is loaded onto the LaunchPad development kit as shipped from TI. See Section 2.2.3 for more information.