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Purpose

This tutorial give an example of using a I2C device on the MB1225 evaluation
kit. The device is a 0.56” 4-Digit 7-Segments Display w/I2C Backpack from Adafruit.

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Prerequisites
  • A STMicroelectronics discovery kit with STM32F769NI MCU, order code 32F769IDISCOVERY (name on PCB: STM32F769I-DISCO).
  • USB 2.0 male to micro USB cable (supplied with evaluation kit).
  • A full installation of an Hyperpanel OS release on a linux based PC including tools for flashing and debugging. This tutorial requires release V10.03.02 for MB997D or higher. Hyperpanel OS releases are available for free in the Download section of the website.
  • A Lunix PC with ARM gcc compiler, ARM gdb debugger and minicom installed.
  • A text editor to edit or modify source codes (We are using vi in our demo).
  • The 0.56″ 4-Digit 7-Segment Display with I2C Backpack from Adafruit.

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Software release

Hyperpanel OS V30.01.01 for MB1225 (hypv300101.zip) or higher, available in the Download section.

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Binary file

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Installation

– On www.tutorial.hyperpanel.com, select Download from the main menu.

– Download “Hyperpanel OS V30.01.01 for MB1225” or higher release for the MB1225 kit (hypv300101.zip).

– On your PC Linux, copy and unzip the zip file in your root directory, for example:

cp hypv300101.zip /home/hyperpanel
cd /home/hyperpanel
unzip hypv300101.zip

– With a text editor, update hhome environment variable in the stm32m7 file:

cd ~/hypv300101/shells
vi stm32m4

Update the first line, according to your root directory:

export hhome=/home/hyperpanel/hypv300101

– Save this file and an execute the command:

source stm32m7

– From this tutorial, use the button “Binary file” to download the zip file containing the binary. Unzip this file:

  unzip hpos-tuto411-bin.zip

– Copy this binary file in HyperPanelOS release:

cp led7seg.bin ~/hypv300101/boards/stm32m7/exe

– Connect the 7-Segments LED screen to the MB1225 (see image). The Arduino Uno Rev3 Connector CN9 is ready to use as followed:

7-SEGMENTS LED          MB1225-CN9         SIGNAL   WIRE
SCL <-----------------> CN9/10/PB8/D15     I2C_SCL  Yellow
SDA <-----------------> CN9/ 9/PB9/D15     I2C_SDA  Green 
VCC <-----------------> CN9/ 8/AVDD/AVDD   Power    Red
GND <-----------------> CN9/ 7/GND/GND     Ground   Black

– Connect the MB1225 board to a USB port on your Linux PC using the USB cable supplied with the board. Wait for a window to appear, then close it.

– Open a Terminal window and run minicom to get access to the Hyperpanel OS serial port and to the application messages:

minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0 -b 115200

– Open another Terminal window on your computer and enter the following commands:

cd ~/hypv300101/shells
source stm32m7
exe

– Upload software to the board:

hgdb
romload stm32m7 led7seg

You should see messages similar to these:

Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0+dev-00001-g0ecee83-dirty (2017-02-10-06:53)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
    http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
0x08005634 in ?? ()
target halted due to debug-request, current mode: Thread 
xPSR: 0x01000000 pc: 0x20000046 msp: 0x20002000
auto erase enabled
target halted due to breakpoint, current mode: Thread 
xPSR: 0x61000000 pc: 0x20000046 msp: 0x10002000
wrote 524288 bytes from file led7seg.bin in 10.224703s (50.075 KiB/s)
Cannot access memory at address 0xffffffff
led7seg.elf: No such file or directory.

Wait until the flashing operation is complete (approx. 30 seconds). The last message (led7seg.elf: No such file or directory) is normal.

– You can now press on the reset button (black button) of the MB1225. Hyperpanel OS will start, a counter “xx:xx” starts on the LED device and also on the serial port.

 

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To go further

If you want to edit the source code, write modifications, compile, link, etc., here’s how to do it :

  • From this tutorial, use the button “Source code” to download the zip file containing the source file. Unzip this file:

unzip hpos-tuto411-source.zip

  • Copy this source code in HyperPanelOS release:
cp led7seg.c ~/hypv300101/user/stm32app
  • Copy the link file in Hyperpanel release:
cp led7seg.lst ~/hypv300101/boards/stm32m7/exe
  • You can edit and make any modifications you want in the source file. For example, you can modify the default “curtime” value. To do this, simply modify the value in the “loop_app_tsk()” procedure at the line 151 of the source file.
cd ~/hypv100302/user/stm32app
vi led7seg.c
  • Save the source file.

 

  • Compile the source file:
cd ~/hypv100302/user/stm32app
cmm led7seg
  • Make a link edit to create a new executable:
exe
lhypos led7seg
  • You can now upload this new binary to the board, in the same way as in
    the previous Installation chapter.

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Description
  • The app gives an “how to use” example of an I2C device in “write” mode. The I2C driver available with HyperPanel OS support several controller/buses in parallel. In the case of the MB1225, there are several I2C bus but we use in the example one bus only.
  • The 7-Segment Backpack Kit include one single I2C device. There are 4 digits and a double dot characters. Each digit have 7 segments and all segments have easy access thrue I2C messages.
  • The I2C driver support IO lists, including waits, conditionnal jumps and intricated loops. We use here some “waits” command for initialization sequence, according to the information of datasheets.
  • The driver provides two software interfaces in order to allow for both ease of use and versatility: Blocking and non blocking interfaces. We use here the blocking interface (i2c_write()).
  • This example is a simple use of the bargraph with one device. But because I2C is a bus, we can connect several I2C devices and use them in the app (cf. other tutorials with several I2C devices).

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Documents

LED 7-segments animation

Code

hypos-tuto411-source

/*
**  led7seg.c - Sample code for HyperpanelOS ==============================  **
**                                                                           **
**  This simple code is located into the application container, it is run    **
**  by the VMK sub-operating system. On the other hand, the I/O container    **
**  runs all the drivers that are VMIO finite state machines.                **
**                                                                           **
**  The goal of this small app is to use a LED 7-segments I2C display device **
**                                                                           **
**  =======================================================================  **
*/


/* Documentation for I2C devices --------------------------------------------

   - HT16K33 18*8 LED Controller data sheet

*/
/* Include files and external reference -------------------------------------*/

#include <hypos.h>                     // Hyperpanel OS basic interfaces.    */
#include <drv_asy.h>                   // Prototype of "asy_write()".        */
#include <drv_i2c.h>                   // Prototype of "i2c_*()".            */


/* Internal defines of this module ------------------------------------------*/

#define  TICK                 1000     // Code for tick event.

#define DUMMY_AD              0xFF     // I2C dev address - Dummy for wait.
#define LED_AD                0xE0     // I2C dev address - LED (8bits address)

#define INIT                     0     // I2C command - Bargraph initialisation
#define DOT_OFF                  2     // I2C command - Double dot OFF   
#define DOT_ON                   4     // I2C command - Double dot ON    


/*  Internal global variables of this module --------------------------------*/

    static unsigned int idto         ; // Timer identifier.


/* INIT command .............................................................*/

    static const char init[]       = // I2C command - Display initialisation
      {

/*    Length-1, Address, Control byte, Data byte                             */

      1, LED_AD   , 0x21             , // BAR dev  : Turn on  oscillator

      1, LED_AD   , 0x81             , // BAR dev  : Display ON Blinking OFF

                                       // BAR dev  - Clear the display.
     11, LED_AD   , 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  // Character 1
                          0x00, 0x00,  // Character 2
                          0x00, 0x00,  // Double dot in the middle
                          0x00, 0x00,  // Character 3
                          0x00, 0x00,  // Character 4
      0                              , // End of command set
      }                              ; //

    static const char dot_off[]     = // I2C command - Double dot OFF
      {

/*    Length-1, Address, Control byte, Data byte                             */

      2, LED_AD   , 0x04, 0x00       , // Double dot OFF
      1, DUMMY_AD , 50               , // Temporisation
      0                              , // End of command set
      }                              ; //

    static const char dot_on[]      = // I2C command - Double dot ON
      {

/*    Length-1, Address, Control byte, Data byte                             */

      2, LED_AD   , 0x04, 0x02       , // Double dot ON
      0                              , // End of command set
      }                              ; //

    static char   *command[] =         // I2C commands table
      {                                //
        (char*)&init                 , // I2C command - SCREEN_INIT
        (char*)0                     , // Padding
        (char*)&dot_off              , // I2C command - SET_LINE1
        (char*)0                     , // Padding
        (char*)&dot_on               , // I2C command - SET_LINE2
        (char*)0                     , // Padding
      }                              ; //
   
    static const char digit[]        = // Digit on 7-segment coding
      {
        0x3F                         , // "0" digit
        0x06                         , // "1" digit
        0x5B                         , // "2" digit
        0x4F                         , // "3" digit
        0x66                         , // "4" digit
        0x6D                         , // "5" digit
        0x7D                         , // "6" digit
        0x07                         , // "7" digit
        0x7F                         , // "8" digit
        0x6F                         , // "9" digit
      }                              ;

/*  Prototypes --------------------------------------------------------------*/

    static int  loop_app_task(void*)     ; // Prototype
    static int  wait_evt(void)           ; // Prototype
    static void set_command(int)         ; // Prototype


/*  Beginning of the code ---------------------------------------------------

    loop_app_tsk         Application entry point
*/

/*  Procedure loop_app_tsk --------------------------------------------------

    Purpose : This is our task main loop.
*/

int loop_app_tsk (void *param)
  {
    int             ev = TICK        ; // Our event
    int             curtime = -1     ; // Current time in second         
    int             ret = 0          ; // Return procedure code 
    char            mess[32]         ; // Message to be sent on ASY0
    unsigned int    time             ; // Time to be display on 7-segments
    unsigned char   buf[20]          ; //


/* Step 1 - Start a timer that will send an event every second ..............*/

    set_uto(CLOCK      ,               // Timer mode: clock
            1000       ,               // Duration in milliseconds
            TICK , 0   ,               // Event code and reserve field
            &idto     );               // Timer identifier


/* Step 2 - LED 7-segment initialisation ....................................*/

    asy_write(0,(unsigned char*)"Init ...\r\n",10);

    set_command(INIT)               ; // LED 7-segment display initialization

    asy_write(0,(unsigned char*)"done\r\n",6);


/* Step 3 - Get time ........................................................*/

    curtime = 0                       ; // Start at "00:00"


/* Step 4 - Main loop .......................................................*/

    wait_ev :                          // Beginning of loop label
 
    if ( ev == TICK )                  // If the event is the tick event
      {                                //
        curtime ++                   ; // Time incrementation


/* Step 4.1 - Display time on serial port each second .......................*/

        hsprintf(mess                , // Format de timer message.
        "    %02d:%02d\r\n"          , //             
        (curtime /   60)%60          , // Minutes.
         curtime        %60         ); // Seconds.
        asy_write(0                  , // Write on ASY0
          (unsigned char*)mess       , // the "mess" message
          strlen(mess)              ); // Count of bytes to be sent


/* Step 4.2 - Display timer on the LED 7-segments display each second .......*/

        set_command(DOT_OFF)         ; // Turn double dot OFF                

        time=((curtime/60)%60)*100 +   // Minutes.
               curtime     %60       ; // Seconds.

        memset(buf   , 0x00  , 15);             // Reset display buffer
        memset(buf   ,   11  ,  1);             // Number of byte to write
        memset(buf+1 , LED_AD,  1);             // I2C device address
        
        memset(buf+3 ,digit[(time/1000)%10],1); // Digit 1
        memset(buf+5 ,digit[(time/ 100)%10],1); // Digit 2
        memset(buf+9 ,digit[(time/  10)%10],1); // Digit 3
        memset(buf+11,digit[ time%10      ],1); // Digit 4
        
        ret = i2c_write(               // Send I2C command
                        0            , // Controller number
                        PRO_I2C_DEV  , // Protocol code
                       -1            , // Target address unused with FLG_MULTI
                        0            , // Target sub-address
                        buf          , // Command
                        0            , // Count of bytes unused with FLG_MULTI
                        FLG_MULTI   ); // List of option flags

        if (ret)                       // i2c_write() return an error
          {                            //
        hsprintf(mess,                 // Format an error message
       "ERR <i2c_write> ret=%d",ret);  //
        asy_write(0                  , // Write message on ASY0
              (unsigned char*)mess   , //
              strlen(mess)          ); //
          }                            //

        set_command(DOT_ON)          ; // Turn double dot ON                 
     }  

    ev = wait_evt()                  ; // Unschedule until an event is received
    goto wait_ev                     ; // Wait for the next event

    return  0                        ; // Return code of the procedure 
  }


/*  Procedure wait_evt ------------------------------------------------------*/
/*
    Purpose : Unschedule until the next event is received, whatever it is.
*/

static int wait_evt (void)
  {
    unsigned int    waitlist[1][3]   ; // Parameter of "waitevt_task"

/*****************************************************************************
 * Step 1 : Build a list with one WAIT_CODEINT entry that will accept all    *
 * ------   the event codes ranging from 0 to 20000. Then call               *
 *          "waitevt_task", we will be unscheduled until the next event will *
 *          be received                                                      *
 *****************************************************************************/

    waitlist[0][0]  = WAIT_CODEINT   ; // All events with
    waitlist[0][1]  = 0              ; // a code between 0
    waitlist[0][2]  = 20000          ; // and 20000

    waitevt_task(waitlist ,            // Address of waiting list
                 1        ,            // Size of "waitlist[]"
                 0        ,            // maximum waiting time = no
                 0        )          ; // Do not purge previous events

/*****************************************************************************
 * Step 2 : Here we are scheduled again. The VMK has written into its        *
 * ------   global variable "task_evt" a copy of the event that has          *
 *          scheduled us again.                                              *
 *****************************************************************************/

    return task_evt.code             ; // Return event code
  }

/*  Procedure set_command ---------------------------------------------------*/
/*
    Purpose : Send a set of commands to I2C devices.
*/

static void set_command(int cmd)
  {
    int             ret = 0          ; // Return procedure code 
    char            mess[64]         ; // Message to be sent on ASY0

    ret = i2c_write(                   // Send I2C command
        0                            , // Controller number
        PRO_I2C_DEV                  , // Protocol code
       -1                            , // Target address unused with FLG_MULTI
        0                            , // Target sub-address
        (unsigned char*)command[cmd] , // Commands
        0                            , // Count of bytes unused with FLG_MULTI
        FLG_MULTI                   ); // Flag for "several cmd in same buffer"

    if (ret)                           // i2c_write() return an error
      {                                //
        hsprintf(mess,                 // Format an error message
       "ERR <i2c_write> ret=%d",ret);  //
        asy_write(0                  , // Write message on ASY0
              (unsigned char*)mess   , //
              strlen(mess)          ); //
      }                                //
  }

 

Terminal

 ~/hypv100302/boards/stm32m7/exe >> hgdb
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man                    Display again this manual
stm32m7                Send the reset halt command to openocd
armdisconnect          Deconnexion command
peek adr               Read and display  a 32 bit value at adr
poke adr val           Write a val 32 bits value at adr
poke_m adr msk val     Write bits in a 32 bits word with a mask
peekrange base o1 o2   Read 32 bits words from base+o1 to base+o2
affichb adr size       Print a memory area starting at adr
vmio n                 Display the tnote_evt_s debug table
int                    Display the tnote_it debug table
rte                    Return from interrupt
romload stm32m7 app    Write the app executable file in flash
rom stm32m7 app        Connect to target and load app dbg symbols
gpio bank n state      Set GPIO n (0-15) of bank (1-9) to 0/1
clock 0/1/2/3          Output SYSCLK/PLLI2S/HSE/PLL to MO2/PC9
(gdb) romload stm32m7 led7seg
Open On-Chip Debugger 0.10.0+dev-00001-g0ecee83-dirty (2017-02-10-06:53)
Licensed under GNU GPL v2
For bug reports, read
    http://openocd.org/doc/doxygen/bugs.html
0x00002ed2 in ?? ()
target halted due to debug-request, current mode: Thread 
xPSR: 0x01000000 pc: 0x00003148 msp: 0x10002000
auto erase enabled
target halted due to breakpoint, current mode: Thread 
xPSR: 0x61000000 pc: 0x20000046 msp: 0x10002000
wrote 393216 bytes from file led7seg.bin in 11.088839s (34.629 KiB/s)
(gdb)