FYP18-03

Firmware for a final year project.

About

Developed for an STM32F407VET6 board

with a 320x240 LCD(ILI9341) connected to its FSMC interface.

Graphics

The GUI is developed using LVGL library.

Firmware

The firmware is developed on Mbed platform.

Getting started

Requirement

A linux system(even WSL) with python and ARM toolchain and mbed-tools installed.

Deployment

Using mbedcli2 tool, run the following commands to deploy and build the project.

mbed-tools deploy .  # to deploy 
mbed-tools configure -m STM32F407VE_BLACK -t GCC_ARM # to configure
mbed-tools compile -m STM32F407VE_BLACK -t GCC_ARM # to  build

Ethernet

This application supports ethernet communication between the PC and the Black_f407ve board. It is achieved through EmbeddedProto. This is added to the main application as a submodule, and a header file representing a proto file is generated using the following procedure

• Install the latest version of protobuf by downloading a prebuilt binary from protobuf official repo.
• Extract it in your path of choice e.g~/protobuf/protoc-21.6/
• Run the EmbeddedProto setup script in its parent directory.

cd EmbeddedProto && python setup.py --include ~/protobuf/protoc-21.6/include

• Generated the source of your proto file using the following

source venv/bin/activate &&
protoc --plugin=protoc-gen-eams  -I../proto  --eams_out=../generated_src  ../proto/eth_messages.proto 

• The generated header file will be stored in the generated_src directory.

Flashing

The generated binary image is located in build directory. Flash the image using the following command

st-flash <binary name>.bin 0x8000000  # requires stlink installed