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10DOF Click example on SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit

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Description:

This example demonstrates the reading of weather parameters (Temperature and pressure), Motion parameters (Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Quaternion) from 10DOF Click and displays it on a serial terminal when the switch on SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit is pressed.

Modules/Technology Used:

  • Peripheral Modules
    • EIC
    • SYSTICK
    • GPIO
    • SERCOM (I2C)
    • SERCOM (USART)

Hardware Used:

Software/Tools Used:

This project has been verified to work with the following versions of software tools:

Refer Project Manifest present in harmony-manifest-success.yml under the project folder firmware/src/config/default

  • Refer the Release Notes to know the MPLAB X IDE and MCC Plugin version. Alternatively, Click Here
  • Any Serial Terminal application like Tera Term terminal application.

Because Microchip regularly update tools, occasionally issue(s) could be discovered while using the newer versions of the tools. If the project doesn’t seem to work and version incompatibility is suspected, It is recommended to double-check and use the same versions that the project was tested with. To download original version of MPLAB Harmony v3 packages, refer to document How to Use the MPLAB Harmony v3 Project Manifest Feature

Setup:

  • Mount SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit on “CNANO56_HOST_CONN”(U3) connector of Curiosity Nano Base board
  • Mount 10DOF Click board on mikroBUS click 1 connector of Curiosity Nano Base board
  • Connect the SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit to the Host PC as a USB Device through a Type-A male to micro-B USB cable connected to Micro-B USB (Debug USB) port

Programming hex file:

The pre-built hex file can be programmed by following the below steps.

Steps to program the hex file

  • Open MPLAB X IDE
  • Close all existing projects in IDE, if any project is opened.
  • Go to File -> Import -> Hex/ELF File
  • In the “Import Image File” window, Step 1 - Create Prebuilt Project, Click the “Browse” button to select the prebuilt hex file.
  • Select Device has “ATSAME51J20A”
  • Ensure the proper tool is selected under “Hardware Tool”
  • Click on Next button
  • In the “Import Image File” window, Step 2 - Select Project Name and Folder, select appropriate project name and folder
  • Click on Finish button
  • In MPLAB X IDE, click on “Make and Program Device” Button. The device gets programmed in sometime
  • Follow the steps in “Running the Demo” section below

Programming/Debugging Application Project:

  • Open the project (10dof/firmware/sam_e51_cnano.X) in MPLAB X IDE
  • Ensure “SAM E51 Curiosity Nano” is selected as hardware tool to program/debug the application
  • Build the code and program the device by clicking on the “make and program” button in MPLAB X IDE tool bar
  • Follow the steps in “Running the Demo” section below

Running the Demo:

  • Open the Tera Term terminal application on your PC (from the Windows® Start menu by pressing the Start button)
  • Set the baud rate to 115200
  • Press the switch SW0 on the SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit to print the weather (Temperature and Pressure) and motion parameters (Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Quaternion).

  • For every switch press, the SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit prints the latest weather and motion parameters.

Instructions to add 10dof functionality to your application:

You could use this demonstration as an example to add 10dof functionality to your MPLAB Harmony v3 based application. Follow the below steps.

  1. If you haven’t downloaded the 10dof demo yet Click Here to download, otherwise go to next step
  2. Unzip the downloaded .zip file
  3. From the unzipped folder 10dof/firmware/src, copy the folder click_routines to the folder firmware/src under your MPLAB Harmony v3 application project
  4. Open MPLAB X IDE
  5. Open your application project
  6. In the project explorer, Right click on folder Header Files
    and add a sub folder click_routines by selecting “Add Existing Items from Folders…”
  • Click on “Add Folder…” button

  • Select the “click_routines” folder and select “Files of Types” as Header Files

  • Click on “Add” button to add the selected folder

  • The 10dof click example header files gets added to your project

  1. In the project explorer, Right click on folder Source Files
    and add a sub folder click_routines by selecting “Add Existing Items from Folders…”
  • Click on “Add Folder…” button

  • Select the “click_routines” folder and select “Files of Types” as Source Files

  • Click on “Add” button to add the selected folder

  • The 10dof click example source files gets added to your project

  1. The 10dof click example uses the I2C and Timer peripherals. The configuration of these peripherals for your application depends on the 32-bit MCU and development board you are using.

    • Configure I2C: - Add the I2C peripheral block to the MCC project graph
      • Configure I2C Pins using MCC Pin configuration Window
        The I2C configuration depends on - 32-bit MCU - 32-bit MCU development board - The socket on which you have mounted the 10dof click board
        Example: The 10dof click example on SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit uses mikroBUS socket #1 on the Curiosity Nano Base for Click boards to mount the 10dof click board. The I2C lines from MCU coming to this socket are from the SERCOM2 peripheral on the MCU.
        MCC Project Graph - I2C configuration

      MCC Pin Configurator - I2C pin configuration

    • Configure Timer:
      • Configure Timer peripheral block in the MCC project graph
        The Timer configuration depends on - 32-bit MCU
        Example: The 10dof click example on SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit uses SysTick timer module on the MCU to implement the time requirement of 10dof click routines.
        MCC Project Graph - SysTick configuration
    • Map Generic Macros:
      • After generating the project, following the above configuration, map the generic macros used in the click routines to the Harmony PLIB APIs of the 32-bit MCU your project is running on
      • The generic macros should be mapped in the header file click_interface.h

        Example: The 10dof click routines for the example on SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit uses the following Harmony PLIB APIs

  2. The click_routines folder contain an example C source file 10dof_example.c. You could use 10dof_example.c as a reference to add 10dof functionality to your application.

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Revision:

  • v1.6.0 - Regenerated and Build Tested the application
  • v1.5.0 - Removed MHC support, regenerated and tested application.
  • v1.4.0 - Added MCC support, Regenerated and tested application.
  • v1.3.0 - Created application example


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