Hardware

Hardware 

Specifications

  • 15 bit color
  • 1 user button
  • stereo 12bit DAC
  • microSD driven by 4wire SDIO
  • 2 USB 2.0 host
  • 1 microUSB for power
  • UEXT extension port

Hardware Reference (for kernel coding)

  • User Button : PE15
    • use pullUP, set to GND when pressed
  • User LED : PA2
  • VGA : 
    • H Sync : PA1
    • V Sync : PA0
    • R : PE14-10
    • G : PE 9-5
    • B : PE 4-0
    • Main CPU frequency is 192MHz now. This means that a full screen range can be 700x480 (generated as 640x480, sync taken care by screens)
  • Audio :  
    • L : PA4, R : PA5
    • lowpass filter
  • Boot : 
    • Boot1 : pulled down, 
    • Boot0 : pulled down, jumper up
  • SDIO
    • SDIO 4pins used.
    • std SDIO pins, no pullup (use internal pullups)
    • Card sense on PC7 (no ext pullup, setup internal) ; set to GND if card present (see errata)
  • Dual USB host 
    • std pins
  • Micro USB : used for power.
    • 500mA power polyfuse
    • Can be used for full USB (even usb device w/ DFU) in place of USB HOST x using solder jumpers
  • Pullups (47k) on : 
    • PC11, PA10,PB5, PB11 (boot1)
  • UEXT 10-pins connector using
    • USART3 (TX/RX, no DFU), or PD8&9 
    • I2C1 (PB6/7)
    • SPI (PB9,10 /  PC2,3)
  • Swd 4 pins, requires power

Schematics, PCB : available on github

 

Rev2a ERRATA

- The SDIO sense had a bad connexion to GND (cards seems to always be on).
Effect : SDIO card is always reported be present.
Workaround : This can be manually fixed by cutting a wire & rewiring gnd to nearby SWD by example.
Fixed : rev2b

- The Vref+ pin 21 was not put to VCC.
Effect : Sound does not work.
Workaround : solder to next pin 22 (vdda)
Fixed : rev2b

4 comments:

  1. What is the max size of the flash card?

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    1. I haven't had any issue with a 2GB or 8GB, and Marcus did also test those cards. I don't have any other ones so I didn't test them: )

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  2. Is the user code able to reliably receive and transmit UART data without losing bytes during video and sound processes?

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    1. well the uart is recent but yes. The idea is that UART is polled during vblanks (to avoid collisions on buses)

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