My own design using the MSP430F5529 is aground because Wiindows 7 refuses to load a driver for the virtual com port.
Message is repeatedly: driver not available. Using hdwwiz doesn't help. Strange thing is that once upon a time it did work.
There was a virtual COM port driver, I used example 5 and sent data into Hyper-terminal and the sun was rising.
Then I made some firmware revisions which resulted in it not working. Retreating to the known good version didn't help.
So, suspecting W7 blacklisted the device, I move to a second relatively virgin W7 computer. No CDC driver available again.
So, I plopped down my $200 for the experimenter's board. Surely, Mr. Feynman, this has to shine light on the problem!!!
No joy. Out of the box, TI's marvel doesn't work for all the same reasons my custom 5529 design doesn't work,
namely: "Virtual COM Port (CDC) doesn't have a driver".
I find it hard, but not impossible, to think that TI shipped something that doesn't work.
Can anyone steer me straight?
DK