User's Manual

External Use 7

Getting Started Out of the Box

Installing Drivers and Running the Out of Box Demo

FRDM-KW24D512 comes with the mass-storage

device (MSD) Flash Programmer OpenSDA

Application pre-installed. It will appear as a

removable storage drive with a volume label of

FRDM-KW24D512.

The FRDM-KW24D512 will appear as a

removable storage drive (MSD Flash

Programmer) with a volume label of ‘DAPLink’.

The board also includes an USB serial port

interface that will be enumerated as “mbed

Serial Port”.

If the USB Serial Port fails to automatically install

in Windows, follow the instructions in Step 0 to

get and install the driver required.

Optional: Download and Install the mbed serial configuration drivers from

https://developer.mbed.org/handbook/Windows-serial-configuration

The pre-installed demo running on the KW24 MCU

provides an easy way to test the RF performance

of the transceiver for basic transmitter and receiver

tests. It includes test mode (continuous tx,

modulated, unmodulated, etc.), Packet Error Rate

and Range tests (LQI

measurements) as well as radio’s registers

communication through the serial port

communication with the OpenSDA interface.