1.5.1 PIC32 WFI32E Curiosity Board: Building and Running the File System Based SPI Flash Bootloader Applications

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Path of the application within the repository is apps/fs/spi/.

To build the application, refer to the following table and open the project using its IDE.

• To run the demo, the following additional hardware are required:
  • One IO1 Xplained Pro Extension Kit
  • One micro SD Card
• Connect IO1 Xplained Pro Extension Kit to the J203 XPRO header of PIC32 WFI32E Curiosity Board
• On the GPIO Header (J207), connect U1RX (Pin 13) and U1TX (Pin 23) to TX and RX pin of any USB to UART converter (e.g., USB UART Click board)
• Connect the Debug USB port on the board to the computer using a micro USB cable

1. Open the bootloader project bootloader/firmware/pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X in the IDE.
2. Ensure that the app_programmer/firmware/pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X is added as a loadable project to bootloader application.
   • As the SPI Flash memory may not have any valid binary required by bootloader for the first time. Adding the app_programmer as loadable allows MPLAB X to create a unified hex file and program both these applications in their respective memory locations based on their linker script configurations.

   

3. Open the Terminal application (e.g., Tera Term) on the computer to get programmer application messages through UART once loaded.
4. Configure the serial port settings as follows:
   • Baud: 115200
   • Data: 8 Bits
   • Parity: None
   • Stop: 1 Bit
   • Flow Control: None
5. Build and program the bootloader application using the IDE.
6. Once programming is done, bootloader starts execution and directly jumps to application space to run the programmer application.
   • RED LED (D202) starts blinking indicating that the programmer application is running and the user should see below output on the console

     

7. Open the programmer application project app_programmer/firmware/pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X in the IDE.
8. Update app_programmer/firmware/src/app_monitor.c to update printf message from Serial Memory to SPI Flash Memory as below.

   printf("\r\n###### File System (SPI Flash Memory) Programmer Application Running ######\r\n");

9. Clean and Build the project to generate the binary (Do not program the binary).
10. Copy the generated application binary file to a sdcard from the Host PC.

    <harmony3_path>/bootloader_apps_serial_memory/apps/fs/spi/app_programmer/
    firmware/pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X/dist/pic32mz_w1_curiosity/production/
    pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X.production.bin

11. Rename the copied application binary file to image.bin.
12. Insert the sdcard with the application binary image.bin in the micro-SD Card slot of the IO1 Xplained Pro Extension Kit.
13. Following figure shows output of successfully copying the programmer application binary to SPI Flash Memory.
    • RED LED (D202) should still be blinking

      

14. Remove the sdcard from the sdcard slot.
15. Press and hold the Switch SW1/SW200 to trigger Bootloader from programmer application and the user should see below output.

    

16. Once Firmware Update is successful, RED LED (D202) should start blinking indicating updated programmer application running and the user should see below output on the console.

    

• To bootload any other application refer to the Application Configurations
  Note: This application should have programming capabilities to SPI Flash Memory.
• Once done, repeat the applicable steps mentioned in Running the Application