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[hemmerling] Electric Units & Electronics 2/3 - Actors, Sensors, Embedded Systems Electronics and suitable Control Systems

Future Technology Devices International Limited ( FTDI ) "FT800 chip / FTDI Eve" - “FTDI Chip is redefining the cost and quality paradigm for graphic user interface (GUI) development with the introduction of the FT800, Embedded Video Engine (EVE)”.
- YouTube Channel "FTDI Chip".

The USB to SPI Cable - The "PC Starterkit"

Future Technology Devices International Limited ( FTDI ) "USB Hi-Speed to MPSSE Cables" - “Range of USB Hi-Speed cables capable of emulating USB Hi-Speed to UART, SPI, I2C and JTAG protocols”.
- ~~C232HM-DDHSL-0, MPSSE, 10 single pole receptacles, 30Mbps, 0.5m, Additional Voltage Output Level (If available) = 3.3V~~ - not really recommended.
- C232HM-EDHSL-0, MPSSE, 10 single pole receptacles, 30Mbps, 0.5m, Additional Voltage Output Level (If available) = 5V - recommended if you need to supply power by the USB cable from the PC.
Future Technology Devices International Limited ( FTDI ) "D2XX Direct Drivers" for Windows.
Future Technology Devices International Limited ( FTDI ) "FT2232C MPSSE Projects".
Future Technology Devices International Limited ( FTDI ) "FTDI Programming Guides".
Future Technology Devices International Limited ( FTDI ) "FTDI Knowledgebase".
Tips:
- “If for any reason there is no Voltage label on the cable, then the above pictures show you how to identify them. The plastic inside the connector housing will be black for 3.3 Volts, and white for 5 Volts”.

Boards with FTDI Eve

Glyn

Glyn Jones GmbH und Co. Vertrieb von elektronischen Bauelementen KG "Schneller Start für 'EVE': Ohne Grundkenntnisse – Grafik, Sound und Touch in wenigen Minuten"
Glyn Jones GmbH und Co. Vertrieb von elektronischen Bauelementen KG "Mikrocontroller / Evaboards - EVE".
Glyn “EVBMB9B520EVEVE” board.
- With Spansion MB9BF524K, ARM M3 core 256K bytes Flash, 32KByte Working Flash, 32KBytes RAM.
- With interface to Glyn “EVBEVEFT800”.
Glyn “EVBEVEFT800” board.
- With graphics chip FTDI FT800.
- With interface to resistive touch controllers.
Resistive touch display by Emerging Display Technologies ( EDT ), WQVGA ( 480 x 272 ).
The graphics chip, board and display are designed to be used in “landscape” mode only ( not in “portrait” mode ). There are just ASCII characters ( 0..127 ) for “landscape” mode available.
Access to pixels:
- With traditional graphics controllers, there are 5 - 6 layers, and you may set every pixel of every layer.
- With FT800, you can´t easily set a single pixel.
The graphics demo videos look as if the vidoes are not recorded by an external cam, but by transfering images back to a host... True?!
Example code:
- The FT800 software examples by FTDI are mostly in C++ ( and not just C ), sometimes just working with Microsoft Visual Studio C/C++ compiler.. true?!
- The FT800 software examples by Glyn are in “C” and kept as simple s possible.
Tool support:
- iSystems WinIDEA already support “Spansion MB9BF524K” and will make the Glyn “EVBMB9B520EVEVE” board selectable as target option.
- The newest version of Spansion's “USB wizzard” application already supports the ARM board, so that the wizzard may create a working USB driver.
Installation tips:
- Please install Seggert JLink without “virtual COM port”.
- The CPU is “MB9BF524K”.
- You may flash the ARM board directly by USB, without having attachted the TFT display nor the FT800 controller board.
  - “Project settings / Customize”:
    - Path: “$(CMPDIR)bin\arm-none-eabi-objcopy.exe”.
    - Commandline: ”–output-target=srec $(IRFDIR)\Debug\template.elf $(IRFDIR)\Debug\template.srec”.
  - The hex file is in the “Debug” directory, e.g. “template.srec”.
  - You have to set the red jumpber on JP4 on the ARM board.
  - Connect the ARM board with the USB cable.
  - The ARM board goes into USB device modus.
  - A virtual COM port must be installed once, a driver is at the FT800 workshop software directory “Software\Spansion\USBDIRECT-V01L10”.

Gameduino 2

James Bowman, excamera.
- ~~James Bowman, excamera "Gameduino: a game adapter for microcontrollers"~~.
  - ~~James Bowman, excamera "Sample sketches"~~.
- James Bowman, excamera "Gameduino 2: this time it’s personal".
  - James Bowman, excamera "Gameduino 2 code".
  - Kickstarter "Gameduino 2: this time it's personal by James Bowman".
- Book James Bowman "Gameduino 2: Tutorial, Reference, Cookbook".
  - Page 39: “After the LOAD ASSETS() finishes, all the bitmaps are loaded into graphics memory, and all the bitmap handles are set up to use the bitmaps”.

Resitive Pencils

eBay - Search for "nintendo 3ds stifte".

Resources

Some other Displays

ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY - “Serial Graphic Displays, with built-in Intelligence!”.
- Free simulator / editor / compiler for Windows - “Helpful for the development, but also powerful for 1st. steps is the simulator software for the EA eDIP240-7. With that internal EEPROM can be used to define some pre-defined screen layouts”.
- ELECTRONIC ASSEMBLY - Support.
- reichelt elektronik GmbH & Co. KG "EA EDIP-TFT43ATP :: TFT-Grafikdisplay 10,9cm 480x272 mit Intelligenz", 4,3”, 480×272.
“LCD Display 162C” #MSP430-Workshop.
- RS Components GmbH "LCD Display 162C-BC-BC".
- Displaytech Ltd ""Monochrome Standard Character Modules" - “Model 162C”.
Conrad Electronic SE "7-Segment-Anzeige Kingbright SC56-11GWA" #MSP430-Workshop.

Motor Control

Motors

Brushless Motor Devices ( named by TI, for use with their Motor Control Evaluation Boards )

Anaheim Automation “BLY 172S-2V-4000”.
TelcoMotion - “DT 4260-24-055-04”.
Teknic, Inc. - M-231OP-LN-04K ( 7.1A cont.,6000 rpm ).

Brushless Motor Devices ( named by Spansion Inc., for use with their Motor Control Evaluation Board )

Dunkermotoren GmbH - “BG42x15”, 24 Volts.
- Dunkermotoren GmbH - Brushless DC motors ( BG ).

Some other Motor Devices

FAULHABER GROUP, FAULHABER Antriebssysteme – Deutschland.
- DE.Wikipedia "Faulhaber (Unternehmen)".

Resources

Motors Control Sytems

Motor Control Kits

See ARM Embedded Systems ( ARM7, ARM8, ARM9, ARM11, Cortex ).
- “Spansion Inc.” → “Motor control kit”.
- “Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. → Kinetis ARM Cortex-M4 Microcontrollers” → “Motor Control Applications”.
See Embedded Systems.
- “Texas Instruments” → “Motor Drive & Control”.

Literature

Control Theory

Sensors

Cameras

CAMIF ( Camera Interface )

QuickLogic Corp..
- QuickLogic Corp. "CAM I/F - Easy Connection to the TI Sitara Platform".
EN.Wikipedia "Camera interface" ( “CAMIF” ).

Image Sensors

ON Semiconductor ( Aptina ).
- EN.Wikipedia "Aptina".
- EN.Wikipedia "ON Semiconductor", DN.Wikipedia "ON Semiconductor".
- ON Semiconductor "Image Sensors" → Search for “Image Sensors” to find image sensors and not camera utilities.
- ON Semiconductor "ON Semiconductor Completes Acquisition of CMOS Image Sensor Business Unit from Cypress", 2011.
STMicroelectronics.
- STMicroelectronics "CMOS Image Sensors".
- STMicroelectronics "Imaging ICs and Modules".

MCUs with Camera Interfaces & Evaluation Boards

Atmel.
- Atmel Corporation "SAM4S Wireless PIR Camera Reference Design" - “This reference design kit provides everything you need to get a quick start designing a low-cost yet powerful passive infrared motion detector camera solution, as found in building or home alarm and monitoring systems”.
- Atmel Corporation "Cameras".
- Atmel Corporation "SMART SAMA5 ARM Cortex Based MPUs".