README
======
This directory contains the port to the NXP LPCXpress-LPC54628 board
(OMI1309UL). This board features:
- LPC54628 Cortex-M4 microcontroller running at up to 220MHz
- 272x480 color LCD with capacitive touch screen
- On-board, high-speed USB, Link2 debug probe with CMSIS-DAP and SEGGER
J-Link protocol options
- UART and SPI port bridging from LPC546xx target to USB via the on-
board debug probe
- Support for external debug probe
- 3 x user LEDs, plus Reset, ISP (3) and user buttons
- Multiple Expansion options, including Arduino UNO and PMod
- Built-in power consumption measurement for target LPC546xx MCU
- 128Mb Micron MT25QL128 Quad-SPI flash
- 16MB Micron MT48LC8M16A2B4 SDRAM
- Knowles SPH0641LM4H digital microphone
- Full size SD/MMC card slot
- NXP MMA8652FCR1 accelerometer
- Stereo audio codec with line in/out
- High and full speed USB ports with micro A/B connector for host or
device functionality
- 10/100Mbps Ethernet (RJ45 connector)
STATUS
======
2017-12-10: The basic NSH configuration is functional at 220MHz with a
Serial console, timer and LED support. Added support for the external
SDRAM and for the RAM test utility.
2017-12-11: Fixed an error in board LEDs. Added framework for future
I2C and SPI flexcomm drivers.
2017-12-12: The SDRAM is now functional and passes the commplete RAM
test. Added configuration options and logic to add none, portions, or
all of the external SDRAM to the system heap. Brought in the LPC1788
LCD driver. The LPC1788 LCD registers are identical to the LPC54xx
(other than a minor clock source setting).
2017-12-13: Created the fb configuration for testing the LCD.
2017-12-14: Corrected a misconception about how the video data lines
were configured. The LCD now appears to be fully functional.
2017-12-15: Added an I2C driver.
2017-12-16: Added support for LPC54xx GPIO interrupts; added button
support (with interrupts) to the NSH configuration. The button
test appears to functional functional. There are noticeable delays
in receiving the button events, especially when the button is
released. But if you do not press the buttons too quickly all events
are processed. This, I suspect, is a consequence of the strong glitch
filtering that is enbled in the pin configuration. Snappier
response my be obtainble with filtering off.
2017-12-17: Added a driver for the FT5x06 capacitive, multi-touch
controller. Add support logic for the LPCXpresso-LPC54528 to
initialize and the register the FT5x06 driver. Unfortunately, the
FT5x06 interrupt is on pin P4.0 but pin interrupts are only supported
on P0.m and P1.m, m=0..31.
2017-12-18: Added an option to the FT5x06 driver to support a timer-
based poll instead of interrupts. This is very inefficient in that it
will introduce delays in touchscreen response and will consume more CPU
bandwidth. The driver appears to be functional. Added the NxWM
configuration to do some integrated testing. NxWM seems to be fully
functional. However, the action of the touchscreen could use some
human factors improvements. I imagine that this is a consequence of
the polled solution.
2017-12-29: Brought in Alan Carvalho de Assis' LPC43xx SD/MMC driver from
https://github.com/Smoothieware/smoothie-nuttx/tree/master/nuttx/arch/arm/src/lpc43xx
and adapted it for use by the LPC54xx. Unverified as of this writing.
There is still no support for the Accelerometer, SPIFI, SD card, Ethernet,
or USB. There is a partial SPI driver, but no on-board SPI devices to
test it.
Configurations
==============
Information Common to All Configurations
----------------------------------------
Each LPCXpresso-LPC54628 configuration is maintained in a sub-directory
and can be selected as follow:
.tools/configure.sh [OPTIONS] xmc5400-relax/<subdir>
See '.tools/configure.sh -h' for a list of all options. The most typical
are -l to select the Linux host or -c to select the Windows Cygwin host.
Before starting the build, make sure that your PATH environment variable
includes the correct path to your toolchain.
And then build NuttX by simply typing the following. At the conclusion of
the make, the nuttx binary will reside in an ELF file called, simply, nuttx.
make
The <subdir> that is provided above as an argument to the tools/configure.sh
must be is one of the following.
NOTES:
1. These configurations use the mconf-based configuration tool. To
change any of these configurations using that tool, you should:
a. Build and install the kconfig-mconf tool. See nuttx/README.txt
see additional README.txt files in the NuttX tools repository.
b. Execute 'make menuconfig' in nuttx/ in order to start the
reconfiguration process.
2. Unless stated otherwise, all configurations generate console
output on USART0 (aka Flexcomm0). USART0 connects to the serial
bridge on LPC4322JET100 and should be available as a USB serial
device on your host PC.
3. All of these configurations are set up to build under Windows using
the "GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors" that is maintained by
ARM (unless stated otherwise in the description of the configuration).
https://developer.arm.com/open-source/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm
That toolchain selection can easily be reconfigured using
'make menuconfig'. Here are the relevant current settings:
Build Setup:
CONFIG_HOST_WINDOWS=y : Window environment
CONFIG_WINDOWS_CYGWIN=y : Cywin under Windows
System Type -> Toolchain:
CONFIG_ARMV7M_TOOLCHAIN_GNU_EABIW=y : GNU ARM EABI toolchain
Configuration sub-directories
-----------------------------
fb:
A simple NSH configuration used for some basic debug of LCD using the
framebuffer character drivers. This configuration provides the test
programs:
- apps/examples/pdcurses, and
- apps/examples/fb
as NSH built-in applications.
NOTES:
1. This configuration enables SDRAM to hold the LCD framebuffer and
enables the LPC54xx LCD driver in order to support the LPCXpresso's
TFT panel. In this configuration, the framebuffer resides in the
the lower half megabyte of SDRAM beginning at address 0xa0000000
The remainder of the SDRAM from 0xa0080000 up to 0xa1000000 is added
to the heap.
The is wasteful of SDRAM: Only 261,120 bytes actually used for the
framebuffer. This memory could be reclaimed by changing the DRAM
CS0 offset value in the .config file.
2. Some of the pdcurses test rely on some positional input device and so
is not yet usable. Others work fine with no user include: charset,
xmas, firework, worms, rain, for examples.
3. I2C2 is enabled (will be used with the capacitive touchscreen). In
order to verify I2C functionality, the I2C tool at apps/system/i2ctool
is enabled in this configuration.
nsh> i2c dev -b 2 3 77
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1a -- -- 1d -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 38 -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Codec I2C address: 0x1a
Accel I2C address: 0x1d
Touch panel I2C address: 0x38
4. The touchscreen test program at apps/examples/touchscreen is also
included in this configuration.
nsh> tc 5
tc_main: nsamples: 2
tc_main: Initializing external touchscreen device
tc_main: Opening /dev/input0
Sample :
npoints : 1
Point 1 :
id : 0
flags : 1a
x : 230
y : 84
h : 0
w : 0
pressure : 0
etc.
NOTE that the touchscreen controlled must run in a polled mode! The
FT5x06 interrupt GPIO is on P4.0 and, as far as I know, GPIO
interrupts are not supported on P4. So polled mode only for this
puppy.
nsh:
Configures the NuttShell (nsh) application located at examples/nsh.
This configuration was used to bring up the board support and, hence,
is focused on low level, command-line driver testing. It has no
network.
NOTES:
1. NSH built-in applications are supported.
Binary Formats:
CONFIG_BUILTIN=y : Enable support for built-in programs
Application Configuration:
CONFIG_NSH_BUILTIN_APPS=y : Enable starting apps from NSH command line
2. SDRAM support is enabled, but the SDRAM is *not* added to the system
heap. The apps/system/ramtest utility is include in the build as an
NSH builtin function that can be used to verify the SDRAM.
nsh> ramtest -h
RAMTest: Missing required arguments
Usage: <noname> [-w|h|b] <hex-address> <decimal-size>
Where:
<hex-address> starting address of the test.
<decimal-size> number of memory locations (in bytes).
-w Sets the width of a memory location to 32-bits.
-h Sets the width of a memory location to 16-bits (default).
-b Sets the width of a memory location to 8-bits.
The MTL48LC8M16A2B4-6A SDRAM is on CS0 which corresponds to address
0xa0000000, the size of the memory is 128Mbits or 16Mb. So the DRAM
may be tested with this command:
NuttShell (NSH) NuttX-7.23
nsh> ramtest a0000000 16777216
RAMTest: Marching ones: a0000000 16777216
RAMTest: Marching zeroes: a0000000 16777216
RAMTest: Pattern test: a0000000 16777216 55555555 aaaaaaaa
RAMTest: Pattern test: a0000000 16777216 66666666 99999999
RAMTest: Pattern test: a0000000 16777216 33333333 cccccccc
RAMTest: Address-in-address test: a0000000 16777216
nsh>
3. I2C2 is enabled (will be used with the capacitive touchscreen). In
order to verify I2C functionality, the I2C tool at apps/system/i2ctool
is enabled in this configuration.
nsh> i2c bus
BUS EXISTS?
Bus 0: NO
Bus 1: NO
Bus 2: YES
Bus 3: NO
Bus 4: NO
Bus 5: NO
Bus 6: NO
Bus 7: NO
Bus 8: NO
Bus 9: NO
nsh> i2c dev -b 2 3 77
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a b c d e f
00: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
10: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- 1a -- -- 1d -- --
20: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
30: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
40: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
50: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
60: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
70: -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
I believe that the on-board Accelerometer, Audio Codec, and touch
panel controller should have been detected (but perhaps the touch
panel is not powered in this configuration since the LCD is not
configured?)
Codec I2C address: 0x1a
Accel I2C address: 0x1d
Touch panel I2C address: 0x38
4. Support for the on-board USER button is included as well as the
button test program at apps/examples/buttons. This test is useful
for verifying the functionality of GPIO interrupts.
NuttShell (NSH) NuttX-7.23
nsh> buttons
buttons_main: Starting the button_daemon
buttons_main: button_daemon started
button_daemon: Running
button_daemon: Opening /dev/buttons
button_daemon: Supported BUTTONs 0x01
nsh> Sample = 1
Sample = 0
Sample = 1
Sample = 0
Sample = 1
Sample = 0
Sample = 1
etc.
There are noticeable delays in receiving the button events,
especially when the button is released. But if you do not press the
buttons too quickly all events are processed. This, I suspect, is a
consequence of the strong glitch filtering that is enbled in the pin
configuration. Snappier response my be obtainble with filtering off
if desired.
nxwm:
This is a special configuration setup for the NxWM window manager
UnitTest. This builds on top of the features that were unit tested in
by the fb configuration.
The NxWM window manager can be found here:
<nuttx-code>/NxWidgets/nxwm
The NxWM unit test can be found at:
<nuttx-code>/NxWidgets/UnitTests/nxwm
Documentation for installing the NxWM unit test can be found here:
<nuttx-code>/NxWidgets/UnitTests/README.txt
Where <nuttx-code> is whatever path you have select to install
NuttX.
Here is the quick summary of the build steps (Assuming that all of
the required packages are available in a directory ~/<nuttx-code>):
1. Install the nxwm configuration
$ cd ~/<nuttx-code>/nuttx
$ tools/configure.sh [OPTIONS] lpcxpresso-lpc54628/nxwm
Use the -l option with the configure.sh script if you are using a
Linux host; use the -c option if you are using Cygwin under Windows.
Use the -h option to see other selections.
2. Make the build context (only)
$ make context
3. Install the nxwm unit test
$ cd ~/<nuttx-code>/NxWidgets
$ tools/install.sh ~/<nuttx-code>/apps nxwm
Creating symbolic link
- To ~/<nuttx-code>/NxWidgets/UnitTests/nxwm
- At ~/<nuttx-code>/apps/external
4. Build the NxWidgets library
$ cd ~/<nuttx-code>/NxWidgets/libnxwidgets
$ make TOPDIR=~/<nuttx-code>/nuttx
5. Build the NxWM library
$ cd ~/<nuttx-code>/NxWidgets/nxwm
$ make TOPDIR=~/<nuttx-code>/nuttx
6. Built NuttX with the installed unit test as the application
$ cd ~/<nuttx-code>/nuttx
$ make
