1.1.11 PIC32 WFI32E Curiosity Board: Building and Running the UART Bootloader applications

Downloading and building the application

To clone or download this application from Github,go to the main page of this repository and then click Clone button to clone this repo or download as zip file. This content can also be download using content manager by following these instructions

Path of the application within the repository is apps/uart_bootloader/

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

Bootloader Application

Test Application

Setting up PIC32 WFI32E Curiosity Board

• Connect the Debug USB port on the board to the computer using a micro USB cable

• On the GPIO Header (J207), connect U1RX (PIN 13) and U1TX (PIN 23) to TX and RX pin of any USB to UART converter (for eg: USB UART click board)

Setting up the host script

• Refer to Bootloader Host Script Help for setting up the btl_host.py utility used to send the application binary from host PC

Running the Application

1. Open the test application project test_app/firmware/pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X in the IDE

2. Build the project to generate the binary (Do not program the binary)

3. Open the bootloader project bootloader/firmware/pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X in the IDE

4. Build and program the application using the IDE

5. Run the btl_host.py from command prompt to program the application binary

    python <harmony3_path>/bootloader/tools/btl_host.py -v -i <COM PORT> -d pic32mzw -a 0x90000000 -f <harmony3_path>/bootloader_apps_uart/apps/uart_bootloader/test_app/firmware/pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X/dist/pic32mz_w1_curiosity/production/pic32mz_w1_curiosity.X.production.bin
   

6. Following snapshot shows output of successfully programming the test application

   • Rebooting and Reboot Done messages in below output signifies that bootloading is successful

   

7. If above step is successful then the RED LED (D202) should start blinking

8. Open the Terminal application (Ex.:Tera Term) on the computer

9. Configure the serial port settings as follows:

   • Baud : 115200

   • Data : 8 Bits

   • Parity : None

   • Stop : 1 Bit

   • Flow Control : None

10. Reset or Power cycle the device

11. RED LED (D202) should start blinking and you should see below output on the console

    

12. Press and hold the Switch SW1/SW200 to trigger Bootloader from test application and you should see below output

    

13. Repeat Steps 5-11 once and jump to Step-14.

    • This step is to verify that bootloader is running after triggering bootloader from test application in Step 12

14. Press and hold the Switch SW1/SW200 and then Power cycle the device to force trigger bootloader at startup

15. Repeat Steps 5-11 once

    • This step is to verify whether bootloader is triggered by switch press at reset

Additional Steps (Optional)

• To bootload any other application refer to Configuring an application to be bootloaded for MIPS based MCUs