Hi, I wonder if someone could help me with my setup.
@Tesla DeLorean @Amel NASRI @Andrew Neil
I am currently trying to use touchGFX to design my GUI in a custom board. Before trying to use touchGFX, I set up the LTDC and FMC to use an external SDRAM to hold the buffer and it works fine (I can draw on the screen). However, I've been struggling to setup the touchGFX and being able to only get some random pixels. I noticed from the templates that an external flash is being used to hold initial assets generated at touchGFX, but my board does not have an external flash right now.
Is it possible to run touchGFX from internal flash, and use only external sdram for the framebuffer?
I'll share the configurations I have so far:
And here is my ld file:
/*
******************************************************************************
**
** @file : LinkerScript.ld
**
** @author : Auto-generated by STM32CubeIDE
**
** @brief : Linker script for STM32F469IITx Device from STM32F4 series
** 2048KBytes FLASH
** 64KBytes CCMRAM
** 320KBytes RAM
**
** Set heap size, stack size and stack location according
** to application requirements.
**
** Set memory bank area and size if external memory is used
**
** Target : STMicroelectronics STM32
**
** Distribution: The file is distributed as is, without any warranty
** of any kind.
**
******************************************************************************
** @attention
**
** Copyright (c) 2025 STMicroelectronics.
** All rights reserved.
**
** This software is licensed under terms that can be found in the LICENSE file
** in the root directory of this software component.
** If no LICENSE file comes with this software, it is provided AS-IS.
**
******************************************************************************
*/
/* Entry Point */
ENTRY(Reset_Handler)
/* Highest address of the user mode stack */
_estack = ORIGIN(RAM) + LENGTH(RAM); /* end of "RAM" Ram type memory */
_Min_Heap_Size = 0x200; /* required amount of heap */
_Min_Stack_Size = 0x400; /* required amount of stack */
/* Memories definition */
MEMORY
{
CCMRAM (xrw) : ORIGIN = 0x10000000, LENGTH = 64K
RAM (xrw) : ORIGIN = 0x20000000, LENGTH = 320K
FLASH (rx) : ORIGIN = 0x8000000, LENGTH = 2048K
SDRAM (xrw) : ORIGIN = 0xD0000000, LENGTH = 32M
}
/* Sections */
SECTIONS
{
/* The startup code into "FLASH" Rom type memory */
.isr_vector :
{
. = ALIGN(4);
KEEP(*(.isr_vector)) /* Startup code */
. = ALIGN(4);
} >FLASH
/* The program code and other data into "FLASH" Rom type memory */
.text :
{
. = ALIGN(4);
*(.text) /* .text sections (code) */
*(.text*) /* .text* sections (code) */
*(.glue_7) /* glue arm to thumb code */
*(.glue_7t) /* glue thumb to arm code */
*(.eh_frame)
KEEP (*(.init))
KEEP (*(.fini))
. = ALIGN(4);
_etext = .; /* define a global symbols at end of code */
} >FLASH
/* Constant data into "FLASH" Rom type memory */
.rodata :
{
. = ALIGN(4);
*(.rodata) /* .rodata sections (constants, strings, etc.) */
*(.rodata*) /* .rodata* sections (constants, strings, etc.) */
. = ALIGN(4);
} >FLASH
.ARM.extab (READONLY) : /* The "READONLY" keyword is only supported in GCC11 and later, remove it if using GCC10 or earlier. */
{
. = ALIGN(4);
*(.ARM.extab* .gnu.linkonce.armextab.*)
. = ALIGN(4);
} >FLASH
.ARM (READONLY) : /* The "READONLY" keyword is only supported in GCC11 and later, remove it if using GCC10 or earlier. */
{
. = ALIGN(4);
__exidx_start = .;
*(.ARM.exidx*)
__exidx_end = .;
. = ALIGN(4);
} >FLASH
.preinit_array (READONLY) : /* The "READONLY" keyword is only supported in GCC11 and later, remove it if using GCC10 or earlier. */
{
. = ALIGN(4);
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__preinit_array_start = .);
KEEP (*(.preinit_array*))
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__preinit_array_end = .);
. = ALIGN(4);
} >FLASH
.init_array (READONLY) : /* The "READONLY" keyword is only supported in GCC11 and later, remove it if using GCC10 or earlier. */
{
. = ALIGN(4);
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__init_array_start = .);
KEEP (*(SORT(.init_array.*)))
KEEP (*(.init_array*))
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__init_array_end = .);
. = ALIGN(4);
} >FLASH
.fini_array (READONLY) : /* The "READONLY" keyword is only supported in GCC11 and later, remove it if using GCC10 or earlier. */
{
. = ALIGN(4);
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__fini_array_start = .);
KEEP (*(SORT(.fini_array.*)))
KEEP (*(.fini_array*))
PROVIDE_HIDDEN (__fini_array_end = .);
. = ALIGN(4);
} >FLASH
/* Used by the startup to initialize data */
_sidata = LOADADDR(.data);
/* Initialized data sections into "RAM" Ram type memory */
.data :
{
. = ALIGN(4);
_sdata = .; /* create a global symbol at data start */
*(.data) /* .data sections */
*(.data*) /* .data* sections */
*(.RamFunc) /* .RamFunc sections */
*(.RamFunc*) /* .RamFunc* sections */
. = ALIGN(4);
_edata = .; /* define a global symbol at data end */
} >RAM AT> FLASH
_siccmram = LOADADDR(.ccmram);
/* CCM-RAM section
*
* IMPORTANT NOTE!
* If initialized variables will be placed in this section,
* the startup code needs to be modified to copy the init-values.
*/
.ccmram :
{
. = ALIGN(4);
_sccmram = .; /* create a global symbol at ccmram start */
*(.ccmram)
*(.ccmram*)
. = ALIGN(4);
_eccmram = .; /* create a global symbol at ccmram end */
} >CCMRAM AT> FLASH
/* Uninitialized data section into "RAM" Ram type memory */
. = ALIGN(4);
.bss :
{
/* This is used by the startup in order to initialize the .bss section */
_sbss = .; /* define a global symbol at bss start */
__bss_start__ = _sbss;
*(.bss)
*(.bss*)
*(COMMON)
. = ALIGN(4);
_ebss = .; /* define a global symbol at bss end */
__bss_end__ = _ebss;
} >RAM
/* User_heap_stack section, used to check that there is enough "RAM" Ram type memory left */
._user_heap_stack :
{
. = ALIGN(8);
PROVIDE ( end = . );
PROVIDE ( _end = . );
. = . + _Min_Heap_Size;
. = . + _Min_Stack_Size;
. = ALIGN(8);
} >RAM
.graphics_frame_buffer (NOLOAD) :
{
. = ALIGN(4); /* Align to 4 bytes */
__FRAMEBUFFER_START__ = .; /* Define a global symbol for TouchGFX to find the start address */
*(.graphics_frame_buffer) /* This will contain the framebuffer data */
/* Reserve space for TWO 800x480 RGB565 framebuffers for double buffering */
/* Calculation: 800 pixels * 480 lines * 2 bytes/pixel (RGB565) = 768000 bytes = 0xBC000 */
/* For double buffering: 0xBC000 * 2 = 0x178000 bytes */
. = . + 0x178000;
__FRAMEBUFFER_END__ = .; /* Optional: Define a symbol for the end of the framebuffer area */
} >SDRAM AT>SDRAM /* This places the section in the SDRAM memory region */
/* Remove information from the compiler libraries */
/DISCARD/ :
{
libc.a ( * )
libm.a ( * )
libgcc.a ( * )
}
.ARM.attributes 0 : { *(.ARM.attributes) }
}
