
DA9026 Evaluation Board
User Guide - Preliminary DA9026
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Software
Installation
Insert the CD containing the software. If the installation
does not start automatically, run the program ‘setup.exe’
from the CD containing the software. (This will be found in
the directory ‘Software’ on the CD). An automated script will
install the program on your PC. By default, the directory
C:\ProgramFiles\Dialog Semiconductor\Power
Management\DA9026 will be used. The sample
demonstration files will be placed in the same directory.
Plug in the USB cable, and Windows will detect the USB
device. It will prompt for the drivers, which should be
automatically located on the root directory of the CD The
setup file is Dlgezusb.inf. If Windows suggests that this is
not the driver of this device, please run the program
USB_ID that will be found in the root directory of the CD.
If you are using Windows XP, you may get a message
saying that a USB2 device is attached to a USB1.1 port.
This can safely be ignored.
To uninstall the software please use the Windows ‘Add/
Remove Programs’ function that can be found under ‘Start’-
>’Settings’->’Control Panel’.
Demonstration Panel
Run the DA9026 program by clicking the shortcut on the
appropriate item in the Start menu. The best setting for the
PC display size is 1024x768 pixels, but the default setting is
800*600. The standard Windows option is available to the
user to resize the panel to fill the current screen. It is
important to note that a display size other than the
recommended setting may affect the way in which the
panels appear.
With this ‘Demonstration Panel’ the user is provided with the
option of running one of the demonstrations. Up to 20 pre-
configured demo-files may be available, with names of the
form: DEMO1A.txt, DEMO1B.txt, … DEMO1T.txt. These
demonstration files can be easily changed to different files,
with the format as described in Appendix B.
Select a demo-file from the drop down menu, and then load
and start the DA9026 demonstration by left-clicking the
appropriate demonstration name. This demonstration will
then run continuously, or until an alternative demonstration
is started, or it is stopped.
To change to a different demo-file, just select a new file
from the drop-down menu, and start the demonstration as
before.
The program has an option to play a ‘.wav’ file at the same
time as the demonstration. This is quite simply achieved
within the program by checking for the existence of a
corresponding ‘.wav’ file to the ‘.txt’ file; i.e for DEMO1N.txt,
the corresponding ‘.wav. file would be DEMO1N.wav. If the
file exists, then it is played at the same time as the
‘lightshow’. To aid the user, a ‘Sound Icon’ is displayed
adjacent to the drop down menu if a corresponding sound
file does in fact exist.
The demonstration examples are designed to run
continuously, so there a command button is provided to
‘stop the current demonstration’, should this be necessary.
On this panel there is also the option of viewing the DA9026
Register Values, by clicking on the ‘View Register Settings’
button. These are the values stored in the program that
have been downloaded to the DA9026 device, rather than
the retrieved values from the device.
The command button ‘Exit Program’ ends the DA9026
program.
Configuration Panel
In addition to the Demonstration Panel, a Configuration
Panel is available which will enable the user to have
complete control over all the registers and modes of the
DA9026 device. This can be seen in figure 3.
The components of the configuration panel are:
• Sequence Colors
• Duration & Fade Parameters
• Sequence Order Selection
• Timing Parameters
• Brightness Correction Parameters
• Control Parameters
• (Auto Shutdown/ DCDC Control/Looping
Control/ Start/ Stop/Shutdown)
• I2C direct commands
• File handling
• Register Value options
• Sound options
• Exit
Figure 2. Demonstration panel interface