BSL430.NET.Library

BSL430.NET Library

BSL430.NET is Cross-Platform library serving as MSP430 Toolchain, to upload, download and erase MCU memory.

Note: This library is recommended to build as x86 or x64, rather than AnyCPU!
      It depends on unmanaged code, that needs to use correct pointer size.

Framework Support

• .NET Framework 4.6.1
• .NET Standard 2.0

Communication

Communication with MCU is handled by 4 different ways. FTDI (FT232) is Windows only approach and requires FT2XX drivers installed on target PC. Another approch is called Libftdi and this works on Windows and also Linux, because rather on FT2XX original FTDI drivers it depends on open-sourced alternative libftdfi. Both ways use unmanaged libraries for low-level communication, those libraris are provided in folder lib or just integrated into Win GUI App. Another simple approch is to use standard Serial port (COM) with RS232/UART converter, or the last one, USB with F5xx/F6xx USB enabled MCUs. These 2 ways use managed libraries so you dont need to worry about anything, plus they are also multiplatform.

It is required to connect RST/TEST pins to DTR/RTS according to Wiring Diagram and specific MCU family. These two signals provide special voltage sequence, that forces MCU to start execute BSL bootloader code. In most cases, when MCU has Shared JTAG pins, RST(MCU) is connected to DTR(PC) and TEST(MCU) to RTS(PC). In case of MCU has Dedicated JTAG pins,

Unmanaged comm libs need to be put in right location, to let CLR correctly loads them, please follow .NET P/Invoke guidelines (usually in same folder as executable).

Warning: Old *1xx/2xx/4xx* bootloader protocol handle **Erase** or incorrectly entered password as complete memory wipe including Info A (with **calibration** data), if *LOCK A* bit is not set! It is always better to use modern MSP430 MCUs with 5xx/6xx BSL protocol, but if there is no oher way, be careful.