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USB Application
DEMO BOARD: An example of USB-UDP communication with the FLEX Demo Daughter Board
Prerequisites:
- ScicosLab v4.4.1
- ScicosLab Pack v10.0
- RT-Druid 1.6.0 (only if ScicosLab pack v9.3 or earlier is used)
- Cygwin (with libusb-win32)
- PIC18 USB driver for Windows
- A FLEX full base board and the DEMO daughter board
Note: To use USB communication you need a daughter board. If you don't have a daughter board, the only way to establish a connection between dsPIC and PIC18, is to make some connections manually as shown here.
Step 1:
- Open ScicosLab v4.4.1, the Scicos-FLEX pack is recognized by ScicosLab (refer Fig. 1).
- Change the working directory to “C:\Programmi\scilab\scicoslab-4.4.1\contrib\scicos_ee\scicos_flex\dspic”.
- Type exec builder.sce to build any application of the pack.
- Figure 1 – ScicosLab
Step 2:
- Open file “demoboard_example_flexside.cos” (refer Fig. 2) in Scicos.
- The .cos file is shown in Fig. 3 and contains the schematic for the generation
- (with SCICOS) of the FLEX FULL board program.
- With this application the FLEX FULL board is able to:
- acquire data from the accelerometer and from the light sensor
- send the measures to a PC using the USB interface
- receive and display the USB data on the LCD screen
- perform elaborations for a pretty LEDs blinking
- Figure 2 – Open the demo file
- Figure 3 – Schematic
Step 3:
- Click menu CodeGen and select FlexCodeGen (refer Fig. 3)
- Click on the super-block, the Embedded Code Generator's block property settings
- window will appear (refer Fig. 4)
- Provide path name and then press OK for code generation (refer Fig. 5)
- Figure 4 – Embedded Code Generator window
- Figure 5 – Code Generator results
Step 4:
- Open MPLAB IDE and import “pic30.cof” file created by the code generator
- (refer Fig. 6) in Step 3
- Figure 6 – MPLAB IDE: pic30.cof file importing
Step 5:
- Connect the FLEX003 (FLEX Full Base Board) to ICD for programming the dsPic
- (refer Fig. 7)
- Click the release reset icon and execute the embedded program
- (refer Fig. 8 and Fig. 9)
- Figure 7 - MPLAB IDE: target programming
- Figure 8 - MPLAB IDE: release from reset
Figure 9 – Device released from reset
Step 6:
- Open the PC-side file “demoboard_example_pcside.cos” in Scicos (refer Fig. 10)
- The .cos file contains the schematic for the PC-side (refer Fig. 11).
- The almost-real-time simulation runs in SCICOS environment. The application
- shows the received USB data on the multiple scope and sends other data to the
- FLEX FULL board.
- Figure 10 – Open the PC-side demo file
- Figure 11 – PC-side demo file
Step 7:
- Check the USB device recognition in the peripherals window (refer Fig. 12) and
- execute the program "app_flex_scicos.exe" (refer Fig. 13)
- Note1: The program "app_flex_scicos.exe" needs CygWin Win32 usb library.
- Donwload and install "libusb-win32" using the utility "Setup.exe", download available from the Cygwin site (Cygwin Net Release Setup program).
- Note2: After the program "app_flex_scicos.exe" is builded (using "make"), copy cygusb0.dll and cygwin1.dll into the program folder
- before to launch it.
- Note3: Download the FLEX USB drivers for Windows and the PIC18 firmware at:
- FLEX usb data communication using Scilab and Scicos
- Figure 12 – Check the USB device recognition
- Figure 13 – Compilation and start of the program;
Step 8:
- The simulation runs in almost-real-time, and the data received (acceleration on
- X, acceleration on Y, acceleration on Y, modified light sensor output) can be
- graphically seen in the Scicos Scope window (refer Fig. 14)
- The demo results are shown in Fig. 15
- Figure 14 – Simulation in running mode
- Figure 15 – Demo results
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