Getting started with Infineon: PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit

PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) with TFT Display Shield Board (CY8CKIT-028-TFT).

The following article explains all necessary steps to create an Embedded Wizard UI application suitable for the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012). Please follow these instructions carefully and step by step in order to ensure that you will get everything up and running on your target. In case you are not familiar with Embedded Wizard, please read first the Quick Tour tutorial to understand the principles of Embedded Wizard and the GUI development workflow.

Introduction: External display controller and partial display updates

Since the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) does not contain a display onboard, it can be combined easily with an external display controller, like the ST7789V or others. These types of display controllers can be accessed very easy by using the SPI or parallel data interfaces and they contain their own display memory. As a result, the entire framebuffer can be located inside the display controller and only a small scratch-pad buffer is needed inside the micro-controller (MCU). For this purpose, Embedded Wizard supports a partial display update, that makes it possible to update the display in sequential small areas. This makes it possible to operate with a scratch-pad buffer of a few kilobytes instead of a full-screen framebuffer within the memory space of the MCU.

Please note: The partial display update is intended to be used for extremely memory-constrained systems. Due to the fact that the display update is done in subsequent updates of small areas, moving graphical objects can cause some tearing effects. The UI design should consider this aspect.

Prerequisites

Although you can combine the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) with many different display controllers or your own hardware, we highly recommend to start first with the following hardware components in order to ensure that you get the entire software up and running.

For a smooth bring-up session, you need the following hardware components:

PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) from Infineon/Cypress

TFT Display Shield Board (CY8CKIT-028-TFT) from Infineon/Cypress

USB cable to connect the board with your PC

Furthermore, make sure that you have got the following software packages:

Embedded Wizard Studio Free or Embedded Wizard Studio Pro

Embedded Wizard PSoC Platform Package

Embedded Wizard Build Environment for PSoC-62S2

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If you want to use the Free edition of Embedded Wizard Studio and the PSoC Platform Package, please register on our website and select the target PSoC-62S2. Then you can download the above software packages.

All customers who licensed Embedded Wizard can visit our download center to get the above software packages.

Finally, you need the toolchain for your target:

ModusToolbox from Infineon/Cypress

Installing Tools and Software

Step 1: Install the latest version of Embedded Wizard Studio.

Step 2: Install the Embedded Wizard PSoC Platform Package.

Step 3: Install the ModusToolbox toolchain from Infineon/Cypress.

Step 4: Unpack the provided Embedded Wizard Build Environment for PSoC-62S2 to your local file system (e.g. C:\PSoC-62S2). Please make sure to use a short working folder path (e.g. C:\PSoC-62S2) since ModusToolbox (Eclipse) has restrictions regarding the file path length.

Step 5: Connect your development board with your PC via USB (make sure to use the KITPROG3 USB connector J6). Otherwise flashing your software is not possible. Check in Windows device manager, if the KitProg3 USB-UART device is available below Ports (COM & LPT). If KitProg3 USB-UART device is not available, press MODE SELECT button (SW3) and wait until device list changes after some seconds..

Exploring the Build Environment

The provided Embedded Wizard Build Environment for PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit contains everything you need to create, compile, link and flash an Embedded Wizard UI application for the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit in combination with the TFT Display Shield Board (CY8CKIT-028-TFT). After unpacking, you will find the following subdirectories and files:

\Application - This folder contains ready-to-use projects to compile and link an Embedded Wizard generated UI application. They are used for all provided examples and they can be used to build your own UI applications.

\GeneratedCode - This folder is used to receive the generated code from an Embedded Wizard UI project. All template projects are building the UI application out of this folder. You can create your own UI project and generate the code into the subdirectory \GeneratedCode without the need to adapt the project.

\Project - This folder contains the prepared project for the Infineon/Cypress ModusToolbox Eclipse IDE.

\Source - This folder contains the files main.c and ewmain.c. There you will find the initialization of the system and the main loop to drive an Embedded Wizard GUI application. The file ewconfig.h contains general configuration settings for the target system, like memory ranges and display parameter and configuration settings for the Embedded Wizard Graphics Engine and Runtime Environment. Additionally, this folder contains a configuration file for FreeRTOS and the device driver C/H files used for the DeviceIntegration example.

\Examples - This folder contains a set of demo applications. Each example is stored in a separate folder containing the entire Embedded Wizard UI project. Every project contains the necessary profile settings for the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit. The following samples are provided:

\HelloWorld - A very simple project that is useful as starting point and to verify that the entire toolchain, your installation and your board is properly working.

\ScreenOrientation - This demo shows, that the orientation of the UI application is independent from the physical orientation of the display.

\DeviceIntegration - This example shows the integration of devices into a UI application and addresses typical questions: How to start a certain action on the target? How to get data from a device?

\GraphicsAccelerator - This application demonstrates the graphics performance of the target by using sets of basic drawing operations that are executed permanently and continuously.

\BezierClock - The sample application BezierClock implements a fancy digital clock and timer application with animated digits. The application uses vector graphics to render dynamically the different digits for clock and timer. The change from one digit to another is handled by moving the vector points to get a smooth transition animation.

\BrickGame - The sample application BrickGame implements a classic "paddle and ball" game. In the game, a couple of brick rows are arranged in the upper part of the screen. A ball travels across the screen, bouncing off the top and side walls of the screen. When a brick is hit, the ball bounces away and the brick is destroyed. The player has a movable paddle to bounce the ball upward, keeping it in play.

\PlatformPackage - This folder contains the necessary source codes and/or libraries of the PSoC Platform Package: The Graphics Engine for the color format RGB565 and the Runtime Environment (in the subdirectory \RTE).

\TargetSpecific - This folder contains all configuration files and platform specific source codes. The different ew_bsp_xxx files implement the bridge between the Embedded Wizard UI application and the underlying board support package (Infineon/Cypress hardware drivers) in order to access the display, the touch driver, serial interface and the clock.

\Drivers - This folder contains the display driver for the ST7789V that can be used as templates for your own hardware. Feel free to use them and to adapt them according your needs.

Creating the UI Examples

For the first bring up of your system, we recommend to use the example 'HelloWorld':

Example 'HelloWorld' within Embedded Wizard Studio.

The following steps are necessary to generate the source code of this sample application:

Navigate to the directory \Examples\HelloWorld.

Open the project file HelloWorld.ewp with your previously installed Embedded Wizard Studio. The entire project is well documented inline. You can run the UI application within the Prototyper by pressing Ctrl+F5.

To start the code generator, select the menu items BuildBuild this profile - or simply press F8. Embedded Wizard Studio generates now the sources files of the example project into the directory \Application\GeneratedCode.

Compiling, Linking and Flashing

The following steps are necessary to build and flash the Embedded Wizard UI sample application using the ModusToolbox toolchain:

The subdirectory \Application\Project\ModusToolbox contains a template project that is commonly used for all provided Embedded Wizard examples. All Embedded Wizard examples will store the generated code within the common /Application/GeneratedCode folder.

The given ModusToolbox example under \Application\ ModusToolbox contains a workspace which has all adaptions for an Embedded Wizard project. For using this within Infineon/Cypress ModusToolbox IDE do following steps:

Start ModusToolbox IDE and select the directory \Application\Project\ModusToolbox as workspace directory.

To import the C project, select the menu item FileImport and choose General - Existing Projects into Workspace and press Next.

Choose Select root directory - Browse and select the directory \Application\Project\ModusToolbox\PSoC-62S2.

Press Finish.

Select the project PSoC-62S2 and open the Library Manager from the Quick Panel. Press the button Update within the Library Manager (all shared mtb components should be downloaded). After all components are downloaded, close the Library Manager..

To compile the project select Build PSoC-62S2 Application from the Quick Panel.

Ensure that the board is connected to the PC (Step 5).

To download the project select PSoC-62S2 Program (KitProg3_MiniProg4) from the Quick Panel.

If everything works as expected, the application should be built and flashed to the PSoC6 target.

Example 'HelloWorld' running on PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012).

All other examples can be created in the same way: Just open the desired example with Embedded Wizard Studio, generate code and rebuild the whole application using the above steps.

Creating your own UI Applications

In order to create your own UI project suitable for the PSoC6 target, you can create a new project and select the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit project template:

As a result you get a new Embedded Wizard project, that contains the necessary Profile attributes suitable for the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012):

The following profile settings are important for your target:

The attribute PlatformPackage should refer to an installed PSoC Platform Package. Please note, that for PSoC6 only the color format RGB565 can be used.

The attribute ScreenSize should correspond to the display size of the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012).

The attributes ModeOfBitmapResources and ModeOfStringConstants should be set to DirectAccess. This ensures that resources are taken directly from flash memory.

The attribute OutputDirectory should refer to the \Application\GeneratedCode directory within your Build Environment. By using this template, it will be very easy to build the UI project for your target.

The attribute CleanOutputDirectories should be set to true to ensure that unused source code within the output directory \Application\GeneratedCode will be deleted.

Now you can use the template project in the same manner as it was used for the provided examples to compile, link and flash the binary.

After generating code, build and download the application using ModusToolbox IDE as described above.

Console output

In order to receive error messages or to display simple debug or trace messages from your Embedded Wizard UI application, a serial terminal like 'Putty' or 'TeraTerm' should be used.

As soon as you connect your PSoC6 target with the PC via USB, a new virtual Com Port appears within your system device list. Open the device manager to get the port number of this COM port.

Now you can open your terminal application and connect it via COMx with the following settings: 115200-8-N-1

This terminal connection can be used for all trace statements from your Embedded Wizard UI applications or for all debug messages from your C code.

Display Optimization

The layout of the interface between the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) and the TFT Display Shield Board (CY8CKIT-028-TFT) can be optimized so that the data lines are not scattered over several GPIO registers. By doing this modification, the performance of the display update can be increased significantly. Instead of setting each GPIO pin individually, the entire GPIO register is set at once.

The following table shows the list of changed connections between the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit (CY8CKIT-062S2-43012) and the TFT Display Shield Board (CY8CKIT-028-TFT):

Display Pin

Original

Optimized

DB11

J2, A12

J2, A11

DB12

J2, A13

J2, A12

DB13

J2, D7

J2, A13

DB14

J2, D8

J2, A14

DB15

J2, D9

J2, A15

After doing the hardware modifications, please set the define EW_USE_OPTIMIZED_LCD_PINNING within the file ewconfig.h to 1 and rebuild the application.

Release notes

The following section contains the version history of the Build Environment (including Graphics Engine and Runtime Environment) for the PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit. These release notes describe only the platform specific aspects - for all general improvements and enhancements please see the Embedded Wizard release notes.

Version 11.00

Initial support of PSoC 62S2 Wi-Fi BT Pioneer Kit with a dedicated Build Environment.

Linker section definitions: The linker section definitions for constant data can now be done directly within the file ewconfig.h. The set of defines have been enhanced to control the location of all types of constant data. The following defines are supported: EW_USE_EXTERNAL_FLASH, EW_BITMAP_PIXEL_SECTION_NAME, EW_FONT_PIXEL_SECTION_NAME, EW_FONT_DATA_SECTION_NAME, EW_CONST_STRING_SECTION_NAME.

Touch configuration and calibration: The file ewconfig.h contains now a set of defines to print and calibrate the touch events from the touch device.

Code size reduction: A set of new macros wtihin the file ewconfig.h are introduced to reduce the code size of the binary application: EW_DONT_USE_GRADIENTS, EW_DONT_USE_COMPRESSION, EW_DONT_USE_NATIVE_SURFACES, EW_DONT_USE_NATIVE_SURFACES_AS_DESTINATION.

Using ModusToolbox version 2.3.0.

Version 11.00.01

Removed autogenerated files from /libs folder.

Library mtb-pdl-cat1 is pinned to release-v2.3.1.

Changed to ModusToolbox version 2.4.0.