TMC5161-EVAL Evaluation Kit • Document Revision V1.00 • 2018-Dec-17

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1.1 First Start-Up

1. Make sure that the latest version of the TMCL-IDE is installed. The TMCL-IDE can be downloaded

from www.trinamic.com/support/software/tmcl-ide/.

2. Open the TMCL-IDE and connect the Landungsbruecke or Startrampe via USB to the computer. For

Windows 8 and higher is no driver needed, on Windows 7 machines the TMCL-IDE is installing the

driver automatically.

3. Verify that the Landungsbruecke or Startrampe is using the latest rmware version. The rmware

version is shown in the connected device tree.

Figure 2: Firmware Version

4. The TMCL-IDE (V3.0 and upwards) needs room to show all important information and to provide a

good overview. Therefore, arrange the main window related to your needs. We recommend using full

screen. For evaluation boards it is essential to have access to the registers. Therefore open up the

Register Browser (left side). For a better view click top right on the normal icon to get a maximized

register browser window.

Figure 3: Landungsbruecke Dialogue

5. The TMC5161-EVAL provides 2 optional solder jumpers for the IC pins SD_MODE and SPI_MODE as

highlighted in red in Figure 4. They are not assembled by default. They allow to use the TMC5161 in

different modes:

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