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Hardware requirements

Hardware requirements#

  • Micro USB cable

  • MIMX8ULP-EVK board

  • J-Link Debug Probe

  • 5V power supply

  • MIPI-EPDC panel VB3300-FOC

Board settings#

Connect the MIPI panel to MIMX8ULP-EVK EPDC socket according to the instruction printed to console.

Prepare the Demo#

  1. Connect 5V power supply and J-Link Debug Probe to the board, switch SW10 to power on the board.

  2. Connect a micro USB cable between the host PC and the J17 USB port on the target board.

  3. Open a serial terminal with the following settings:

    • 115200 baud rate

    • 8 data bits

    • No parity

    • One stop bit

    • No flow control

  4. Build the project

  5. Generate flash.bin with imx-mkimage and download it according to Getting Started doc

  6. Open two serials lines provided at J17 USB port. (e.g. /dev/ttyUSB0~3, /dev/ttyUSB2 for A Core, /dev/ttyUSB3 for M Core)

  7. Press the reset button on your board and boot to uboot and let uboot not using diplay peripherals => setenv video_off yes;saveenv then re-power on the board

  8. Let Stop in Uboot.

Running the demo#

When the example runs, the screen shows what described in overview. The log below shows the output of the demo in the terminal window:

EPDC example start...

Connect the MIPI panel to MIMX8ULP-EVK EPDC socket.

Press any key to power on panel.

Initializing the panel...

Displaying the image to screen 4 times.

Non-collided update(s) will appear on screen together within one fresh, the collided update(s) will wait until the previous update(s) to finish then refresh.

Drawing lines to panel...
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