Maix Go USB Driver Installation

The firmware of this STM32 chip is shipped with open-ec firmware by default. If there is no problem, one or two serial ports will appear, such as Linux There are two serial ports/dev/ttyUSB0and/dev/ttyUSB1under. Please use /dev/ttyUSB1 when downloading and accessing the serial port. Windows is similar.

If you need to re-burn this firmware, you can download it from github or [download open-ec firmware from the official website](http://dl.sipeed.com/ MAIX/tools/flash-zero.bin), and then use ST-LINK to connect the SW pins (GND, SWDIO, SWCLK) of STM32 on the board to burn. (The STM32 on the current version of the Go board does not support serial port programming. You can only use ST-LINK for programming. If necessary, please purchase it yourself, or use a board to simulate it with IO ( Such as Raspberry Pi))

In addition to open-ec, there is also CMSIS-DAP firmware. Compared with open-ec, it can simulate JTAG to debug the board. Currently, open-ec does not support simulation of JTAG. Download the firmware from the official website](http://dl.sipeed.com/MAIX/tools/cmsis-dap/), use ST-LINK to burn it, there will be /dev/ttyACM0 under Linux equipment

ST-LINK has complete information on the programming method of STM32, please search by yourself

Please note that updating the firmware of STM32 is not the same as updating the firmware of MaixPy. Generally, there is no need to update the firmware of STM32. The default is enough. STM32 is just a USB-to-serial tool! ! ! Don't be confused. . .

Linux

Linux does not need to install the driver, the system comes with it, use ls /dev/ttyUSB* to see the device number

Windows

The development board uses a STM32 to realize the analog serial port and the JTAG function. Windows needs to install the driver of special driver.

-USB driver: Click me

When we get the MaixPy development board and connect it to the computer, we can open the device manager to check whether the serial port driver has been installed. The methods to open the device manager are:

  • This computer (right click) -> Properties -> Device Manager
  • Start menu (right click) -> Device Manager
  • Control Panel -> (Search) Device Manager

  1. When our system is a Windows 10 system, the system will automatically install the driver for us, and if it is an old version of Win7, win8, we need to install the USB driver manually:

  2. Open the link in the previous section to download the driver

  3. Click Install

  4. After the installation is complete, you can see in the device manager that two serial devices have been identified (only one serial port is available)