st429 Disco Expansion Board

[warcatz]

Posted on December 20, 2013 at 23:08

Hi ;)

I finally get all the material for build my little expansion board. I have now 16Mb External SDRAM and a Direct VGA output. We can use a 512k x 16Bits SRAM too but is not necessary , i think with a total of 24Mb SDRAM we can do allot ;) Actually i am cleaning my code and i will post it when finished. Everything is working very well , i use a Wii Classic controller with I2C and 2 x TM1638 with 48 Buttons in SPI :) It's just bad that the SDIO port just have the D0 pin free, i use then my SD Card in 1 bit mode. The most difficult was to remade a graphics library , the ST example is so buggy that it was unusable :( So , for more info you can take a look here :

https://sites.google.com/site/suprabotics/stm429-discovery-expansion-board-v2-0

Cheers. PS : i have see a Linux port for the st429 Disco board around , i think this expansion can help with the more memory ;) #gerber-file

[warcatz]

Posted on January 06, 2014 at 09:25

Hi , and , Happy new year ;)

I just have finish a workable version from my library for : VGA, SDRAM Expansion , SD Card, Wii classic controller, TM1638 7segment control with buttons (alloooot of button ! ) The source code will be posted here when i finish to clean it ... You can watch a little video here :

http://youtu.be/gQznHo5hwaQ

Bye.

[warcatz]

Posted on January 08, 2014 at 17:18

I cleaned my code and sources + infos from the library are at :

https://sites.google.com/site/suprabotics/source-code

Enjoy.

[Mark Edwards]

Posted on January 11, 2014 at 03:30 Good work. I am interested in the Direct VGA output for my own project. I have looked at the links but can’t see how to buy the board or order the PCB.

[warcatz]

Posted on January 11, 2014 at 09:54

It's the most asked question ;)

So , i have contact SeedStudio for know how you can get my board , i get this answer. //********************************************************************* Thank you for your support! We are glad your friends are also interested in Seeed PCB service. Everyone could have the board they want from Seeedstudio!:) If your friend want your board, is it possible for you to send them your Gerber file. They could use it to place order here:

http://www.seeedstudio.com/service/index.php?r=site/pcbService

Consider to protect customer's privacy, we cannot sold your board directly, hope you understand. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks again for your support! That really means a lot to us. //********************************************************************* So , i attach the file to the post , so you can made it from SeedStudio or OpenPCB(they are slow) ... your choice. Cheers. PS : That is the PCB , you have to solder the components by yourself , some smd soldering skill will be good to have ;) ________________ Attachments : st429_top_exp_v2_5pcs_10by10.zip : https://st--c.eu10.content.force.com/sfc/dist/version/download/?oid=00Db0000000YtG6&ids=0680X000006Hzsd&d=%2Fa%2F0X0000000bQb%2F_RUf4vVpAYqi7x2P9QiehyhjsKS00XHRnNO_co3b1go&asPdf=false

[warcatz]

Posted on January 11, 2014 at 23:14

Hi ,

I just finish to adapt the Sega Master System Emulator from Alessandro Rocchegiani. It work in VGA at 640 x 480. All info here :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz4leSl8n-U&feature=youtu.be

And as usual the source will be found here :

https://sites.google.com/site/suprabotics/

Cheers.

[kenkyee]

Posted on December 31, 2013 at 03:46

Should be interesting to see if you can execute code out of it :)

[warcatz]

Posted on December 31, 2013 at 10:18

I think if you can do it with the st429 dev board you can do it with this one too.

The SDRAM Addr are :

// FMC SDRAM Bank address
#define SDRAM_BANK1_ADDR ((uint32_t)0xC0000000)
#define SDRAM_BANK2_ADDR ((uint32_t)0xD0000000)

The Bank2 is the original st429 disco SDRAM At Bank1 is the one i put on the expansion board. I see somewhere on this forum that the SDRAM access is 6x slower than the internal st429 memory , probably due to external access. I use it for put picture , sprites ,array of data that are used for the VGA screen. But for now i never have try to use external ram for execute code (i don't know how to do it ;) ) And if it's 6x slower i will then prefer keep my program in internal RAM and use the external SDRAM for video and data that don't require high speed. The code cleaning is actually not finished , when I'm finish with this i will post it here. Cheers.