Quick Start Guide

MK8000 EVB Quick Start Guide
Mauna Kea Semiconductor Confidential
Rev 0.3
October 14, 2022
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Figure 6 MK8000 SDK package
4.3 Firmware download
Before testing and evaluation, user needs to download the proper firmware into the MK8000 chipset.
MKSEMI provides an application software, the ISPTool, to download the firmware.
To download the firmware, user needs to connect the EVB to the laptop and get a proper COM port
number in Windows Device Manager for this device and launch the ISPTool application. Make sure
the EVB is in ISP mode, then do the following steps In ISPTool:
1. Select the “UART” communication Mode.
2. select proper COM port number.
3. Click the “Connect” button to establish a data channel. The log browser end with info like
“COM8 is connected successfully,921600”.
4. Select bin by the menu “File”  “open file”.
5. Click the “Download” to start download. The log browser end with “Download is successfully!”.
Figure 7 and Figure 8 also shows the steps of download.