Welcome to the usb-bridge.

The usb-bridge is a tool desined to enable communication between the particles and your PC via usb.

To run the usb-bridge:

1) Make sure to install the original FTDI vendor drivers and do not try to use Windows
   bundled drivers (Win2k+SP2 and later). Driver and .dll are not provided in this
   package of the TecO USB-Bridge, since it is not allow to redistribute it.
 
   Please install the D2XX driver for the FT232 - FT245 series.
   The latest driver can be found at http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/FT232-FT245Drivers.htm
   
   Extract all files from the rar-archive and klick on "ftd2xx.inf" with the right
   button of your mouse. Select "install" in the context-menu.
   
2) After installing the driver, copy FTD2XX.dll from the driver directory to the dist-
   directory of the USBbridge
   If you want to use the command-line version, you also have to copy it to the bin/release directory.

3) If you don't have it already, install Java runtime envoirement.
   You can download it from http://java.sun.com/.

4) Open env_run.bat in the USBbridge-directory and edit the first environment-variable. 
   Run env_run.bat 
   If you want to use the USBbridge regularly, it is recomended to add all the 
   informations from env_run.bat to your autoexec.bat or the environment-variable section
   in your System Control Panel (e. g., under Win 2000, click on Start -> Settings -> 
   Control Panel -> System -> Advanced -> Environment Variables). Otherwise, you have to run 
   env_run.bat after each reboot of your system.

5) That's all. You can now start the USBbridge by starting run.bat or open a command-line,
   go to the dist-directory of the USB-bridge and type in "java -jar usbbridgeJava.jar.

Regards,
Igor S. Kuznetsov <igor.kuznetsov@web.de>
Thomas Morper <morper@teco.edu>