Digilent Orbit BoosterPack Basic Demo User manual

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Orbit BoosterPack™ Basic Demo User Guide
Revised April 1, 2014
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Overview
The Orbit BoosterPack Basic Demo
is a simple program that shows the
functionality of some features on the
board.
Tools Needed to Run the Demo:
• LM Flash Programmer™
• Stellaris® ICDI drivers
• Stellaris® LaunchPad
• ORBIT BoosterPack™
Tools Needed to Alter the Demo:
• Code Composer Studio™ IDE
v5
Functional Description
The demo project continuously reads the state of the switches, buttons, and potentiometer (labeled
“VR1”) on the Orbit board. The switches and buttons control the four on-board user LEDs. The on-
board OLED displays both a Digilent banner, and the contents of the conversion register from the
analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that is connected to the potentiometer.
Turning on a switch, or pressing down a button will turn on the corresponding LED on the Orbit
board.
The value of the ADC is continuously updated on the OLED display. Rotating the black wheel of
the potentiometer counter clockwise, or clockwise, will change the value displayed. The value is
represented in hexadecimal form.

Orbit BoosterPack™ Basic Demo User Guide
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Other Product and company names mentioned herein are trademarks or trade
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Programming the Stellaris® LaunchPad
Please download the Stellaris® ICDI drivers and the Stellaris® Flash Programmer available at
www.ti.com. For assistance installing the drivers, please see the “Stellaris Driver Installation Guide”
available at www.ti.com.
Follow these steps to program the Stellaris® LaunchPad with the Orbit BoosterPack demo project.
• Set the “PWR SELECT” switch on the Stellaris® LaunchPad to “DEBUG”
• Connect the Stellaris® LaunchPad to the host computer with a USB Type A to Micro B
cable. Connect the Micro B plug to the Micro-B receptacle labeled “DEBUG” on the Stellaris®
LaunchPad
• Open LM Flash Programmer
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“OrbitDemo.bin”.
• Click the “Program” button.
Running the Demo
In order to run the demo, switch the Micro B plug to the Micro B receptacle labeled “DEVICE” on the
Stellaris® LaunchPad, and turn the “PWR SELECT” switch to “DEVICE”.
Note: For more information on the Orbit BoosterPack, see the Orbit BoosterPack Reference
Manual at: www.digilentinc.com. For a detailed description of the Stellaris® LaunchPad, or for more
information on the Stellaris® Peripheral Library, please refer to the user manual available at www.
ti.com. The demo project uses a ported version of the Digilent PmodOLED™ software library. For
more information on the PmodOLED software library, see the User Guide available with the library
download at: www.digilentinc.com.