ST STEVAL-ICB008V1 User manual

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User manual
STEVAL-ICB008V1 touch-sensing software library
demonstration kit based on STM8S207S8
Introduction
This touch-sensing software library demonstration kit is based on STMicroelectronics' 8-bit
microcontroller STM8S207S8. With this kit, users can familiarize themselves with the
functionality and the performance of STMicroelectronics' capacitive touch-sensing solution.
This kit is driven by software open library at http://www.st.com/internet/mcu/subclass/1428.jsp.
This is the complete, free source code to transform any 8-bit STM8 microcontroller into a
capacitive touchkey controller.
The STEVAL-ICB008V1 demonstration kit consists of 3 parts, a demonstration board, a PC
GUI program, and a USB cable (standard-A to mini-B). Powered by the PC USB port, the
demonstration board can be demonstrated in standalone. There are 19 LEDs indicating
touchpad information for 6 keys (K1, K2, K3, K4, K5 and K6), 5 crosses (C, UP, LEFT,
DOWN and RIGHT) and one (5 electrodes) slider and another 3 LEDs on the board indicate
the system general status (power, system, and key). With the PC GUI program, the STM8S
RC touch solution provides a simple platform to monitor more detailed operating information
and configure values of critical touch-sensing parameters in applications.
Figure 1. STM8S207S8 RC touch solution
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Contents
1 General description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1 Advantages of STM8S RC touch solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2 Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Getting started with STM8S207S8 RC touch solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1 Demonstration kit checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2 Demonstration board description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3 PC GUI program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1 Driver installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.2 PC GUI program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.2.1 Main dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
3.2.2 Configuration dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Appendix A Data format of log files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Appendix B Schematics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
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List of figures
Figure 1. STM8S207S8 RC touch solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Figure 2. STM8S207S8 RC touch solution demonstration block diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Figure 3. STM8S207S8 RC touch board top view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Figure 4. STM8S207S8 RC touch board bottom view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Figure 5. SWIM port pin bottom view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Figure 6. Driver installation step 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Figure 7. Driver installation step 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 8. Driver installation step 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Figure 9. Driver installation step 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Figure 10. Driver installation step 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Figure 11. Driver installation step 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Figure 12. Driver installation step 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Figure 13. Driver installation step 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 14. Driver installation step 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Figure 15. Driver installation step 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Figure 16. Driver installation step 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Figure 17. Driver installation step 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 18. Driver installation step 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Figure 19. Driver installation step 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 20. Driver installation step 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Figure 21. Driver installation step 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 22. Driver installation step 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Figure 23. Driver installation step 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Figure 24. PC GUI main dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Figure 25. PC GUI configuration dialog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Figure 26. Pop-up box for successful reading operation from demonstration board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Figure 27. Pop-up box for successful writing operation to demonstration board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Figure 28. LED indication circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Figure 29. Touch key and driven shield . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Figure 30. MCU and USB to UART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Figure 31. Power supply +5 V and +3.3 V . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Figure 32. LED indicator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
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1.1 Advantages of STM8S RC touch solution
●Small outline with high density demonstration functions
●Easy demonstration kit which is powered by a USB port, additional power supply is not
required
●Two demonstration modes, offline and online
●Board functions are driven by the library which can be configured through the GUI
●Touchpad information logs on PC
●SWIM port is reserved for debug use.
1.2 Architecture
A block diagram of the STM8S207S8 RC touch solution demonstration is illustrated in
Figure 2, and contains a demonstration board, a PC GUI program, and a standard-A to mini-
B USB cable. The kit can be used in standalone (offline mode), or used along with the PC
GUI program (online mode) for advanced demonstration.
Figure 2. STM8S207S8 RC touch solution demonstration block diagram
In offline mode, the board is connected to the PC and the USB cable provides the power. By
touching each touchpad on the board, the corresponding LED on the board indicates the
touch-sensing status.
In online mode, the USB cable not only provides power supply to the demonstration board
but also data transform. Therefore, the USB driver needs to be installed prior to starting
communication. Thanks to the PC GUI program, some detailed information can be real-time
displayed or saved to the PC. Some critical configurations (e.g. threshold, de-bounce filter,
etc.) are able to be set to the board without entering the debugging procedure, and effected
immediately after setting is done through the PC GUI.
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There is a reserved SWIM port, shown in Figure 2. The configuration between the debugger
is indicated by dashed arrows. This configuration is used to perform real-time debug, or
modify application firmware.
Recommended tools:
●Debugger: resonance RLink debugger/programmer for ST microcontrollers. And ST-
Link debugger and Flash programmer for STM8 and STM32 microcontrollers.
●Development environment: ST MCU Toolset with ST visual develop (STVD) IDE and
ST visual programmer (STVP) programming interface.
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2.1 Demonstration kit checklist
The STM8S207S8 RC touch solution contains:
●STM8S207S8 RC touch board
●USB cable (standard-A to mini-B)
●Material disc including PC GUI program “STM8S RC Touch Demo.exe”, USB driver
“CP210x_VCP_Win98SE.exe”, and user manual (this document).
2.2 Demonstration board description
Figure 3 shows the top view of the demonstration board and Figure 4 shows the bottom
view.
Figure 3. STM8S207S8 RC touch board top view
Figure 4. STM8S207S8 RC touch board bottom view
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Board description
1. System status indication LEDs
– Power indicator illuminates once the board is powered. The power is obtained
through the USB cable
– System indicator blinks with 1 Hz rate when microprocessor is working. The
blinking rate slows down when MCU enters low power mode
– Key indicator illuminates once the key, slider, or cross direction touching has been
detected. Light is OFF when system has been reset
2. Key1~Key6
There is an indication LED inside each key electrode. Every touch event on Key1~Key6
toggles LED status. The LED lights ON and OFF correspond with key status.
3. Slider
The slider consists of five electrodes, which are, from left to right, channel 0, channel 1,
channel 2, channel 3, and channel 4 respectively (refer to Figure 3 and Section 3.2.1).
There are 8 indication LEDs above the electrodes displaying the current position of the
slider.
Note: The slider starts from the middle of the first electrode (channel 0) and ends up in the middle
of the fifth electrode (channel 4). Outside this area, the slider does not detect a position
change.
4. Cross keys
The center key has an indication LED inside the key electrode. Every touch on the
center key event toggles the LED status. The rest of the cross keys have their own LED
indicator near the electrode. Every touch event on those keys toggles the LED status.
The LED lights ON and OFF correspond with key status.
5. Dielectric
Dielectric is a 1.5 mm thickness Plexiglas sheet, which is used to isolate the user's
finger from the electrode on the PCB. It can be replaced by another dielectric with a
different thickness or material, and some parameters (e.g. threshold) need to be tuned
through the PC GUI program. Please refer to the AN2869 application note.
6. MCU
STM8S207S8, STMicroelectronics' standard 8-bit microprocessor.
7. SWIM port
The SWIM port is reserved for debug use. Please refer to Figure 5 for the pin
assignment.
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Figure 5. SWIM port pin bottom view
8. USB connector
The USB connector is a mini-B receptacle for USB standard-A to mini-B cable.
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3 PC GUI program
A PC GUI program named “STM8S RC Touch Demo.exe” is designed to demonstrate more
detailed information of the demonstration kit, such as signal level, reference level, etc. It also
provides an interface for the user to configure some critical parameters of RC touch directly
through the USB connection without reloading the firmware under debug mode.
3.1 Driver installation
Communication between the board and PC is achieved by a USB to UART bridge controller
CP2102 manufactured by Silicon Laboratories Inc. Before starting communication, a driver
needs to be installed on Windows®. Please follow the procedures below:
●Step 1: run “CP210x_VCP_Win98SE.exe” in the disc, and click “Next” to proceed.
Figure 6. Driver installation step 1
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●Step 2: accept the license agreement and click “Next” to proceed.
Figure 7. Driver installation step 2
●Step 3: choose the installation directory and click “Next” to proceed. The default
directory is “c:\SiLabs\MCU\CP210x”.
Figure 8. Driver installation step 3
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