2017 VNA Design Notes

Software

These are notes so I don't forget what I needed to do to get things working for the software on the 2017 VNA project.

Notes on ADC14

The examples were helpful, but I needed a TA0 triggered multiple sequence convert. The last problem to get fixed was toggling the AD14ENC bit after each sequence.

Notes on the SI5351A

I decided to use the Energia tools and the Arduino Etherkit SI5351A library to more quickly get the embedded software going. I think I will be able to combine this with a library I write for the ADC14 so that the users can just manipulate .ino files.

Code Composer Studio Setup for Energia on Ubuntu 17.04 (64 Bit)

I downloaded the energia package using the CCS App center. Then I had to run the energia software (not from CCS) and use the Tools->Board->Boards Manager to install the MSP432 energia arduino libraries. I downloaded both MSP432 (red and black) libraries. Then, because energia was compiled for 32 bit machines, I had to:

sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libx11-6:i386 libasound2:i386 libatk1.0-0:i386 libcairo2:i386 libcups2:i386 libdbus-glib-1-2:i386 libgconf-2-4:i386 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 libgtk-3-0:i386 libice6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libsm6:i386 liborbit2:i386 libudev1:i386 libusb-0.1-4:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxt6:i386 libxtst6:i386 libgnomeui-0:i386 libusb-1.0-0-dev:i386 libcanberra-gtk-module:i386

I was then able to program and load the Blink example on the MSP432 board with energia. Lastly I had to in CCSV7, go to Window->Preferences->Code Composer Studio->Build->Compilers and Add a link to the compiler which was at: ~/.energia15/packages/energia/tools/arm-none-eabi-gcc/4.8.4-20140725/bin After that I was able to use CCSV7, which allows debugging.