USB-Serial-JTAG Peripheral Driver Installation Steps

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For chips such as ESP32-S3, ESP32-S2, ESP32-C6, ESP32-C3, etc., with built-in USB-Serial-JTAG peripherals, if you need to use USB to burn firmware, you can refer to the USB-Serial-JTAG Peripheral Driver for driver installation. In some cases, even when using Windows 10 or above, the driver will not be automatically installed. This document is used to explain how to determine whether the USB-Serial-JTAG peripheral driver has been installed in this situation, and provides the corresponding installation steps.

Determining Whether the Driver Has Been Installed

Open the Device Manager to check. If two USB JTAG/serial debug unit devices are displayed under the Universal Serial Bus devices category, it indicates that the USB-Serial-JTAG peripheral driver is currently not installed.

Driver Installation Steps

Identifying the USB-Serial Port

When two USB JTAG/serial debug unit devices appear, one is the USB-JTAG port, and the other is the USB-Serial port.

Select any device, right-click Properties. If its Value field displays USB JTAG/serial debug unit, then this device is the USB-Serial port; if it displays other values, it is the USB-JTAG port.

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The installation of the USB-Serial-JTAG peripheral driver is only for the USB-Serial port, to ensure the correct recognition and use of the serial communication function.

Driver Installation

Note

If an old version of the driver already exists on your computer, please uninstall the original driver before installing.

Download and save the driver package.

In the Device Manager, select the USB JTAG/serial debug unit representing the USB-Serial port, right-click and select Update Driver Software.

Choose Browse my computer for driver software.

Choose Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer, and specify the driver path as the driver download location.

In the device type, select USB Serial Device, click Next to complete the installation.

At this point, the USB-Serial-JTAG peripheral driver installation is complete.

Check if the installation was successful

Reopen the device manager for confirmation. If only one USB JTAG/serial debug unit device remains under the Universal Serial Bus devices category, and a USB Serial Device (COMx) appears under the Ports (COM & LPT) category, where x is the specific port number, it indicates that the USB-Serial-JTAG peripheral driver has been successfully installed. Subsequently, firmware can be burned through this COM port and log output can be monitored.