1.6.4 SAM E70 Xplained Ultra Evaluation Kit: Building and Running the File System based QSPI Flash Bootloader applications

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Path of the application within the repository is apps/fs/qspi/

To build the application, refer to the following table and open the project using its IDE.

• To run the demo, the following additional hardware are required:

  • One micro SD Card

• Connect the Debug USB port on the board to the computer using a micro USB cable

1. Open the bootloader project bootloader/firmware/sam_e70_xult.X in the IDE

2. Make sure that the app_programmer/firmware/sam_e70_xult.X is added as a loadable project to bootloader application

   • As the QSPI Flash memory may not have any valid binary required by bootloader for the first time, Adding the app_programmer as loadable allows MPLAB X to create a unified hex file and program both these applications in their respective memory locations based on their linker script configurations

   

3. Open the Terminal application (Ex.:Tera Term) on the computer to get programmer application messages through UART once loaded

4. Configure the serial port settings as follows:

   • Baud : 115200

   • Data : 8 Bits

   • Parity : None

   • Stop : 1 Bit

   • Flow Control : None

5. Build and program the bootloader application using the IDE

6. Once programming is done bootloader starts execution and directly jumps to application space to run the programmer application

   • LED1 starts blinking indicating that the programmer application is running and you should see below output on the console

     

7. Open the programmer application project app_programmer/firmware/sam_e70_xult.X in the IDE

8. Update app_programmer/firmware/src/app_monitor.c to update printf message from Serial Memory to QSPI Flash Memory as below

   	printf("\r\n###### File System (QSPI Flash Memory) Programmer Application Running ######\r\n");

9. Clean and Build the project to generate the binary (Do not program the binary)

10. Copy the generated application binary file to a sdcard from the Host PC

    • <harmony3_path>/bootloader_apps_serial_memory/apps/fs/qspi/app_programmer/firmware/sam_e70_xult.X/dist/sam_e70_xult/production/sam_e70_xult.X.production.bin

11. Rename the copied application binary file to image.bin

12. Insert the sdcard with the application binary image.bin in the micro-sd card slot of the device

13. Following snapshot shows output of successfully copying the programmer application binary to QSPI Flash Memory

    • LED1 should still be blinking

      

14. Remove the sdcard from the sdcard slot

15. Short PB03 with GND on EXT1 to trigger Bootloader from programmer application and you should see below output

    • Using PB03 GPIO pin for triggering bootloader as the On Board Switch SW0 is shared with QSPI_CS pin.

    

16. Once Firmware Update is successful LED1 should start blinking indicating updated programmer application running and you should see below output on the console

    

• To bootload any other application refer to Application Configurations

  • Note that this application should have programming capabilities to QSPI Flash Memory

• Once done repeat the applicable steps mentioned in Running The Application