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1. Dual-screen display with RGB and STONE Intelligent TFT
LCD Module
1. Background
Due to the needs of the project, dual-screen display is needed. The original project
uses STM32 + littlevgl + RGB screen display. The PCB board of this project has a
serial port to connect to the serial screen, so in order to complete the project quickly,
we use STONE Brand STVC050WT-01 serial port screen, this article will introduce
how to port littlevgl to the serial port screen and realize dual-screen display with RGB
displayer.
2. STONE Intelligent TFT LCD Module Description
The Intelligent TFT LCD Module with Cotex-M4 32bit CPU can be controlled by
Any MCU via simple Hex Instruction through UART port.
STONE supply the TOOL BOX Software for engineer to Easy & Visually set various
functions on Graphical User Interface, Such as Text, Number, Curve, Image switching,
Keyboard, progressbar, slider, Dial, Clock and Touch button, Data storage, USB
downloading, Video & Audio.
So it is much Easy for engineer to adopt TFT-LCD Colorful User Interface & Touch
control function on various industrial equipments, And it also can reduce much
Development Time and Cost.
3. Pixel Spacing 0.1905mm×0.0635mm (H×V)
Overall Dimension 140mm×80.9mm×13.9mm(N)/15.2mm(T)
Net Weight 195g(N)/200g(T)
TFT Panel A Class Industry Panel
Touch Screen
Industry Level 4 wire resistance
Or without touch screen is optional.
Performance Parameter
CPU CortexM4
LCD Controller CPLD EPM240
Refresh Rate 200MHz
Picture Switching Speed 19 ms/frame （53 images/s）
Flash Memory Standard 128MB, Extension 1GB
Memory Amount for picture
According to the capability of the image,
Suggest "JPG" format.
Interface RS232/ RS485/ TTL /USB Interface
Image downloading
USB2.0 (12Mbps) & U storage Disk
downloading
Voltage Range DC6.0V ~ 35V (typical value: 12V)
Power 1.3 W
3. littlevgl Description
The LVGL is a lightweight embedded library for displays and touchscreens providing
everything required to build a fully featured-embedded GUIs.
1. Small fooprint:64 kB flash and 8 kB RAM is enough for a simple user interface.
2. Many widgets: Choose from 30+ ready to use widgets and customize them with
ease.
3. Any platform: Use LVGL on any platforms, such as STM32, NXP LPC or i.MX,
4. PIC, Arduino, ESP32, Raspberry and so on.
4. MicroPython: Do you like Python? Create your UI in MicroPython with LVGL.
5. Any display: Drive monochrom, OLED, TFT displays, monitors or any other
displays.
6. Open source, free, c, LVGL is hosted on GitHub with MIT license, It's really free
to use
4. STM32F429 description
Core: Arm® 32-bit Cortex®-M4 CPU with FPU, Adaptive real-time accelerator (ART
Accelerator™) allowing 0-wait state execution from Flash memory, frequency up to
180 MHz, MPU, 225 DMIPS/1.25 DMIPS/MHz (Dhrystone 2.1), and DSP
instructions
1. Memories
– Up to 2 MB of Flash memory organized into two banks allowing
read-while-write
– Up to 256+4 KB of SRAM including 64-KB of CCM (core coupled memory)
data RAM
– Flexible external memory controller with up to 32-bit data bus: SRAM,
PSRAM, SDRAM/LPSDR SDRAM, Compact Flash/NOR/NAND memories
2. LCD parallel interface, 8080/6800 modes
3. LCD-TFT controller with fully programmable resolution (total width up to 4096
pixels, total height up to 2048 lines and pixel clock up to 83 MHz)
4. Chrom-ART Accelerator™ for enhanced graphic content creation (DMA2D)
5. Clock, reset and supply management
– 1.7 V to 3.6 V application supply and I/Os
– POR, PDR, PVD and BOR
– 4-to-26 MHz crystal oscillator
– Internal 16 MHz factory-trimmed RC (1% accuracy)
– 32 kHz oscillator for RTC with calibration
– Internal 32 kHz RC with calibration
5. 6. Low power
– Sleep, Stop and Standby modes
– VBAT supply for RTC, 20×32 bit backup registers + optional 4 KB backup
SRAM
7. 3×12-bit, 2.4 MSPS ADC: up to 24 channels and 7.2 MSPS in triple interleaved
mode
8. 2×12-bit D/A converters
9. General-purpose DMA: 16-stream DMA controller with FIFOs and burst
support
10. Up to 17 timers: up to twelve 16-bit and two 32-bit timers up to 180 MHz, each
with up to 4 IC/OC/PWM or pulse counter and quadrature (incremental) encoder
input
11. Debug mode
– SWD & JTAG interfaces
– Cortex-M4 Trace Macrocell™
12. Up to 168 I/O ports with interrupt capability
– Up to 164 fast I/Os up to 90 MHz
– Up to 166 5 V-tolerant I/Os
13. Up to 21 communication interfaces
– Up to 3 × I2C interfaces (SMBus/PMBus)
– Up to 4 USARTs/4 UARTs (11.25 Mbit/s, ISO7816 interface, LIN, IrDA,
modem control)
– Up to 6 SPIs (45 Mbits/s), 2 with muxed full-duplex I2S for audio class
accuracy via internal audio PLL or external clock
– 1 x SAI (serial audio interface)
– 2 × CAN (2.0B Active) and SDIO interface
14. Advanced connectivity
– USB 2.0 full-speed device/host/OTG controller with on-chip PHY
– USB 2.0 high-speed/full-speed device/host/OTG controller with dedicated DMA,
on-chip full-speed PHY and ULPI
– 10/100 Ethernet MAC with dedicated DMA: supports IEEE 1588v2 hardware,
6. MII/RMII
15. 8- to 14-bit parallel camera interface up to 54 Mbytes/s
16. True random number generator
17. CRC calculation unit
18. RTC: subsecond accuracy, hardware calendar
19. 96-bit unique ID
5. Hardware connection
First use solder to remove the place as shown in the figure, which means UART using
TTL level. If short it means RS232, as we are using TTL level, so we disconnect it.
7. Connect the displayer with the connector which provided by STONE, disconnect the
jumper cap, and connect the voltage to 12v DC voltage, the red wire is connected to
the RXD of STM32F429 and the yellow wire is connected to the TXD of
STM32F429, as shown in the figure below.
At this point, our hardware circuit has been connected.
8. 5. Software Design
Open "STONE TOOL 2019.exe" and create a new project named STONE as flow
picture showing.
Then you will get the following window
click right key to remove the 0.jpg and add bkgd.jpg picture which create by
Photoshop with back background.
9. click compiling button to build the project. Then plug in USB port.
if you see these words on the screen, it means you can download the software now.
10. click download online button the it will show the Download Configuration File dialog,
you can see USB has been detected and click Download button.
So far, Stone module part has been finished. now we are going to design STM32 part,
as we have implement littltevgl, so here we only descript how the add support for the
intelligent TTF LCD module. ok let's go.
First new "drv_lcd_stone.c" and implement two interface, one is "lcd_stone_init" the
other is "lcd_stone_color_fill" the code are showing below:
/*********************************************************************
*
* MODULE NAME:
11. * drv_lcd_stone.c - [File Declaration]
*
* DESCRIPTION:
* [File Description]
*
* PUBLIC PROCEDURES:
* Name Title
* ----------------------- --------------------------------------
*
* PRIVATE PROCEDURES:
* Name Title
* ----------------------- --------------------------------------
*
* LOCAL PROCEDURES:
* Name Title
* ----------------------- --------------------------------------
*
* Copyright 2020 by SmallKun <284145919@qq.com>.
*********************************************************************/
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------
INCLUDES
--------------------------------------------------------------------*/
#include "system.h"
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------
LITERAL CONSTANTS
--------------------------------------------------------------------*/
16. }
Then navigate to file "lv_port_disp.c"
static void disp_init(void)
{
/*You code here*/
lcd_stone_init();
}
/* Flush the content of the internal buffer the specific area on the display
* You can use DMA or any hardware acceleration to do this operation in the
background but
* 'lv_disp_flush_ready()' has to be called when finished. */
static void disp_flush(lv_disp_drv_t * disp_drv, const lv_area_t * area,
lv_color_t * color_p)
{
/*The most simple case (but also the slowest) to put all pixels to the
screen one-by-one*/
LTDC_Color_Fill(area->x1, area->y1, area->x2, area->y2, (uint16_t
*)color_p);
lcd_stone_color_fill(area->x1, area->y1, area->x2, area->y2, (uint16_t
*)color_p);
/* IMPORTANT!!!
* Inform the graphics library that you are ready with the flushing*/
lv_disp_flush_ready(disp_drv);
}
compile the code and download the software.
17. Now we have finished our project, it's only took a few hours to finish it. so the
STONE Intelligent TFT LCD Module is very efficient and convenient.
