Arduino Based Test Station

Hardware

• BLACK-PILL-HUB - Test Station Processing element
  • STM32 Black Pill - CPU card
    • Preferred choice due to nearly unlimited resources
  • Previous CPU choices
    • BLUE-PILL-HUB
      • FTDI card required
    • NANO-BKOUT
• DIGIO32-I2C - 32-bits of Digital I/O for testing some cards
• LED-32 - 32 LEDS for bounce across LEDs tests
• DB37RIBBON - DB-37 Male to right angle Ribbon cable header
  • DB-37 plugs into Test Station DIGIO32-I2C
  • Some UUT cards use a second DB37RIBBON card
• DB25RIBBON - DB-25 Male or Female to Ribbon cable
  • Some UUT cards have DB-25 connectors
• UUT cable sets
  • Connect to DB37RIBBON, DB25RIBBON, or LED-32 cards in Test Station
• PC running PuTTY
  • 9600 baud
  • USB-C cable
    • USB connected to PC and USB-C connected to BLACK-PILL-HUB
• Powered through the USB-C connector on the STM32 Black Pill

BLACK-PILL-HUB

LED-32

DIGIO32-I2C

Personality EEPROM

• Tests cards without personality EEPROM
• Tests cards with personality EEPROM
  • Personality EEPROM follows Raspberry Pi Hat EEPROM format
  • Test station writes EEPROM
  • Test station uses EEPROM contents (if present) to determine which test to run

Example Personality EEPROM - DIGIO-128

Reading EEPROM
Family=ODAS
Company=land-boards.com
Product=DIGIO-128

Black Pill Setup

Resources

• Plenty of resources
  • EEPROM - 524288 bytes
  • SRAM - 131072 bytes

Sketch uses 50316 bytes (9%) of program storage space. Maximum is 524288 bytes.
Global variables use 3828 bytes (2%) of dynamic memory, leaving 127244 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 131072 bytes.

Programming

Programming Setup

• Steps from Programming|Program STM32 Black Pill (STM32F401 / F411) with Arduino IDE (Windows OS)
  • Add the URL to Additional Board Manager URLs text box:
    • https://github.com/stm32duino/BoardManagerFiles/raw/master/STM32/package_stm_index.json
  • Go to Tools > Board > Boards Manager
  • Search for STM32, select latest version and click Install.
  • Download and install STM32CubeProg from ST.com: [1]

DFU Programming

• • Start the STM32CubeProg
  • From the Tools > Board > STM32 Board, select Generic STM32F4 series
  • Select Tools > Board Part Number > BlackPill F411CE
  • Under USB Support, select CDC (generic "Serial" supersede U(S)ART)
  • Under Upload method, select SMT32CubeProgrammer(DFU)
  • Use the onboard BOOT0 and NRST button to put the board into bootloader mode:
    • press and hold the BOOT0 button
    • press and release NRST (reset) button to power cycle the processor
      • alternate is to press the Reset button on the BLACK-PILL-HUB card
    • release BOOT0 button
    • Sometimes removing the USB cable and plugging it back in while pressing BOOT0 button works better
  • Upload sketch

• Displays in IDE

USB speed   : Full Speed (12MBit/s)
Manuf. ID   : STMicroelectronics
Product ID  : STM32  BOOTLOADER
SN          : 348C35983539
FW version  : 0x011a
Device ID   : 0x0431
Device name : STM32F411xC/E
Flash size  : 512 KBytes (default)
Device type : MCU
Device CPU  : Cortex-M4



Memory Programming ...
Opening and parsing file: ODASTESTER.ino.bin
  File          : ODASTESTER.ino.bin
  Size          : 49132 Bytes
  Address       : 0x08000000 


Erasing memory corresponding to segment 0:
Erasing internal memory sectors [0 2]
erasing sector 0000 @: 0x08000000 done
erasing sector 0001 @: 0x08004000 done
erasing sector 0002 @: 0x08008000 done
Download in Progress:


File download complete
Time elapsed during download operation: 00:00:02.263

RUNNING Program ... 
  Address:      : 0x8000000
Start operation achieved successfully

Other Programming

• ST-LINK V2
• FLASHER-STM32 - STM32 Flash loader demonstrator (UM0462)
• From AN3155

Cards Supported

Goal is to have automated tests for as many cards as possible. The currently tested cars are.

• DigIO16-I2C board
• DIGIO-128 board
• OptoIn8-I2C board
• OptoOut8-I2C board
• DIGIO32-I2C board
• PROTO16-I2C board
• ODAS-PSOC5 board
• ODAS-RELAY-16 board
• DIGIO-128/64 board
• I2CIO-8 board
• I2CIO-8X board
• SWLEDX8-I2C board
• OPTOFAST-2/OptoSmall Non-Inverting board
• OPTOFAST-2/OptoSmall Inverting board
• I2C-RPT board
• I2C-RPT-08 board
• OptoFastBi board

Menu Options

Select the board type
1 - DIGIO16-I2C board
2 - DIGIO-128 board
3 - OptoIn8-I2C board
4 - OptoOut8-I2C board
5 - DIGIO32-I2C board
6 - PROTO16-I2C board
7 - ODAS-PSOC5 board
8 - ODAS-RELAY16 board
A - DIGIO-128/64 board
9 - TBD board
X - Boards without EEPROMs
Select board > X
Select the board type
1 - I2CIO8 board
2 - I2CIO8X board
3 - SWLEDX8-I2C board
4 - OPTOFast/Small Non-Inverting board
5 - OPTOFast/Small Inverting board
6 - I2C-RPT-01 board
7 - I2C-RPT-08 board
8 - OptoFastBi board

Cable Sets

• Particular cable sets for cards

Software

• ODAS Test Software Github Repo
• Bounce LEDs and loop test to DIGIO32-I2C