USB driver for ARM64

The SPORTident USB driver currently supports Windows on X64 CPUs. If you have the driver installed, but SPORTident devices are not recognised, then your PC might have an ARM64 CPU, such as the Snapdragon processor that is used, for example, in some Windows Surface laptops.

Until the SPORTident USB driver ships with ARM64 support, you can use the workaround detailed below to get devices such as the BSM8 or the SRR USB Dongle working.

Driver download

‘CP210x USB to UART Bridge’ drivers for Windows and Mac OSX are available from Silicon Labs via the following website:

https://www.silabs.com/developers/usb-to-uart-bridge-vcp-drivers?tab=downloads

For Windows 10/11 on ARM, please download the ‘CP210x Universal Windows Driver’.

Direct download link:

https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/software/CP210x_Universal_Windows_Driver.zip

Driver installation on Windows with ARM64 architecture

Download the ‘CP210x Universal Windows Driver’ from Silicon Labs as described above. Extract the files to a local folder.
Connect your SPORTident BSM7/8-USB device to your PC.
Open the Device Manager by clicking on the Windows icon and selecting ‘Device Manager’.
The BSM7/8 ‘SPORTident USB to UART Bridge Controller’ will shop up as an unknown device.
Right click on ‘SPORTident USB to UART bridge’ and select ‘Update driver’.
Select ‘Browse my computer for drivers’.
Select ‘Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer’.
Select ‘Show All Devices’ and click ‘Next’.
Click ‘Have Disk …’.
Click ‘Browse …’.
Navigate to the folder where you extracted the ‘CP210x Universal Windows Driver’ in step 1, select ‘silabser.inf’, and click ‘Open’.
Click ‘OK’.
Select ‘Silicon Labs CP210x USB to UART Bridge’ and click ‘Next’.
Confirm the warning with ‘Yes’.
Windows will confirm the successful installation of the driver.

You will need to repeat steps 3 to 15 for every new SPORTident BSM7/8-USB device you connect to your PC.