TouchGFX not running on STM32H563 with SPI LCD interface and FreeRTOS

[PFlor.2]

I’m not sure why TouchGFX doesn’t seem to be running in a new H563 project when I’ve done this on the H743 on a previous project.  The last project did use LTDC instead of SPI for the display interface so maybe that has something to do with it.  I have confirmed the SPI drivers for the LCD by painting an entire screen from a buffer of color pixels.

Right now I just have a single simple screen created in TouchGFX with internal memory set for assets.

I setup the ToughGfxTask as described in the TouchGFX documentation for FreeRTOS…

Real Time Operating System | TouchGFX Documentation

I then setup the SPI display interface to TouchGFX as described in documentation…

FMC and SPI Display Interface | TouchGFX Documentation

Where can I set a breakpoint to see if the TouchGFXTask is running?  I never reach a breakpoint in this flushFrameBuffer().

I see the TouchGFXTask startup function TouchGFX_Task() does execute…

Since I’m using the internal flash for TouchGFX there’s nothing need in the linker script STM32H563RGTX_FLASH.ld yet right?  My understanding is I just need to map external flash once I have that setup, just using internal to get things running initially before getting the QuadSPI for the external flash implemented.

 

 

 

 

[PFlor.2]

All examples I had seen for SPI display interface to TouchGFX used a partial frame buffer.  When using single/double framebuffer configuration it is still necessary to use a task or timer to trigger a signalVSync() function for TouchGFX to send screen data to the application/LCD driver.

In my particular case, I created a task to call the function above every 100ms.  Based on my framebuffer size and SPI baudrate (15MBits/s) I was able to take it down to every 82ms (screen size 320x240):

320 x 240 x 2 x 8 = 1228800 / 15000000MBits/s = 0.08192s = 81.92ms

Also, for my SPI driver the loop to write framebuffer data 1 line at a time did not work well and was better suited to send entire buffer to driver at once....