Common Driver Installation

This tutorial is about how to install drivers on Windows platforms

1、Serial port driver

CH340 and CP210x are two common serial port to USB chip models.

1.1、CH340

• Administrator

  Open the installation package as an administrator

• install

• Effection

  Use the product with CH340 driver chip to connect to the computer and see if it can be recognized normally (go to the system device manager → port to check)

After installing the driver, you can restart the system and then access the serial communication equipment

1.2、CP210x

• Installation

  After unpacking the downloaded compressed package, select the "silabser.inf" file to install.

• Click on OK button

• Effection

Use the product with CP210x driver chip to connect to the computer and see if it can be identified normally (go to the system device manager → port to check).

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After installing the driver, you can restart the system and then connect to the serial communication device.

2、ST-Link drive

This chapter only describes the ST-Link driver installation, not the rest.

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If you followed this tutorial from scratch, you do not need to install any emulator drivers because you already installed the ST-Link drivers when installing the software.

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• Normal drive

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Shown here is the ST-Link driver installed by default in the software

• Installing the driver

After extracting the archive, open the installation package as an administrator

• Effection

Connect the ST-Link to the computer to see if it can be recognized normally (go to the system Device Manager → Universal Serial bus device to see).