SAM9X75 Curiosity LAN Kit with 5" WVGA LCD Display.

The following article explains all necessary steps to create an Embedded Wizard UI application suitable for the SAM9X75 Curiosity LAN Kit (EV31H43A) in combination with the AC69T88A - 5" WVGA LCD Display (AC69T88A) from Microchip.

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 chapter basic concepts and the Quick Tour tutorial to understand the principles of Embedded Wizard and the GUI development workflow.

First, make sure you have all of the following items:

If you just want to run our GUI demos on your SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA development board without building the different examples, you can simply use the precompiled binary file of the Embedded Wizard Master Demo.

The Embedded Wizard Master Demo combines a variety of examples within one huge demo application. It can be used for presentations and showcases. Each demo application can be activated from a common main menu. To return back from a demo application to the main menu, a small home button appears on top of every demo. Additionally, the Master Demo contains an auto-demo mode that presents one demo application after the other. The auto-demo starts automatically and stops as soon as the user touches the screen.

In order to run the binary file to your target, please follow these steps:

'Master Demo' running on SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA development board.

The provided Embedded Wizard build environment for SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA contains everything you need to create, compile, link and flash an Embedded Wizard UI application for the SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA target. After unpacking, you will find the following subdirectories and files:

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:

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

If everything works as expected, the application binary harmony.bin is now available in the subdirectory \Application\Project\GCC\Bin.

In order to run the binary file to your target, please follow these steps:

Example 'HelloWorld' running on SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA development board.

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 and transfer the binary to the SD-Card.

In order to create your own UI project suitable for the SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA target, you can create a new project and select the SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA project template:

As a result you get a new Embedded Wizard project, that contains the necessary Profile attributes suitable for the SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA development board:

The following profile settings are important for your target:

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, please follow these steps, in order to build your own UI application:

Most of the project settings are taken directly out of the generated code, like the color format or the screen orientation. All other settings can be made directly within the file ewconfig.h, which contains general configuration settings for the target system.

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.

For a serial connection a COM Port adapter (USB-to-TTL serial cable) is needed as described in the 'SAM9X75 Curiosity User Guide'(section 3.5.2, Serial Debug COM Port).

During a successful application startup, the console displays the following information:

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.

If you want to use the Microchip MPLAB-X instead of the GCC ARM embedded toolchain, please follow these instructions:

Generating Code with Embedded Wizard Studio:

Please assure, that the MPLAB x project is closed during Embedded Wizard Code generation.

Compiling, linking and downloading:

The following section contains the version history of the Build Environment (including Graphics Engine and Runtime Environment) for SAM9x75-Curiosity-WVGA. These release notes describe only the platform specific aspects - for all general improvements and enhancements please see the Embedded Wizard release notes.