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USER MANUAL
BlueBoard-LPC214X-H
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Author: Ashwin Athani
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Table of Contents
1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................
1.1 BLUEBOARD-LPC214X-H FEATURES...........................................................
2 GET GOING................................................................................
2.1 SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS ...................................................................
2.2 STARTING OFF...........................................................................
2.2.1 Connecting the hardware..............................................................
2.2.2 Programming BlueBoard ...............................................................
3 BLUEBOARD HARDWARE ......................................................................
3.1 FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW ...................................................................
3.2 HARDWARE CONFIGURATIONS ...............................................................
4 BLUEBOARD UTILITIES .....................................................................
4.1 OVERVIEW...............................................................................
4.2 STARTING OFF...........................................................................
5 TROUBLESHOOTING..........................................................................
5.1 USB VIRTUAL COM PORT INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS XP.......................................
6 SCHEMATICS ..............................................................................
7 SAMPLE APPLICATIONS .....................................................................
8 KNOWN ISSUES.............................................................................
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1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BlueBoard-lpc214x-H Features
BlueBoard-LPC214X is a breakout board for LPC2148 ARM7TMDI based microcontroller. The
LPC2148 microcontroller has 512KB of internal flash and 32+8K RAM. Following are the salien
features of the board.
• Dimensions: mm2
• Two layer PCB (FR-4 material)
• Power: USB powered
• ISP and reset switch
• Test LED
• 32Khz crystal for RTC
• Connectors:
Extension headers for all microcontroller pins
1 RS232 connector for ISP
USB B-type connector with Link-LED
20pin - JTAG connector
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2 Get going
2.1 System Requirements
 Windows XP
 Serial or Parallel port
 USB port
2.2 Starting off
2.2.1 Connecting the hardware
After unpacking the BlueBoard connect the USB cable to power up the board. To test all the
features on this BlueBoard you would need the following accessories:
1. USB cable
2. DB-9 straight serial cable
Once you have all these accessories connected to the BlueBoard you can run through a simple
test to verify that all the peripherals are working fine. Please refer to the ‘Hardware Con
section for testing all the peripherals. It is highly recommended that you test all the per
soon you receive the BlueBoard. The BlueBoard is shipped with the pre-loaded firmware which
test all the peripherals.
2.2.2 Programming BlueBoard
BlueBoard can be programmed through wiggler clone JTAG or through serial port using ‘Flash
Magic’. ‘Flash Magic’ is a freeware windows utility used download the hex file format onto
BlueBoard. Flash Magic can be downloaded from here http://www.flashmagictool.com/. If your
does not have a serial port; use a USB to serial converter to download the hex file using t
Magic utility. For programming with JTAG your system should have a parallel port and the su
IDE which can communicate to the processor core over JTAG interface. We have successfully t
BlueBoard with wiggler clone JTAG and CrossWorks IDE. A LINUX utility to download the hex f
be found here http://www.pjrc.com/arm/lpc2k_pgm/.
 Programming BlueBoard Through ISP.
To program in Manual mode you need a serial cable. Please note that the Blueboard-lpc214x-H
only supports manual mode for programming.
To make the board enter programming mode
• Hold down SW1(isp) and SW2(reset), then release SW2 first and finally SW1
• The controller enters the bootloader mode if during reset the SW1 pin is low
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3 BlueBoard Hardware
3.1 Functional Overview
3.2 Hardware Configurations
Blueboard-lpc214x-H header board pin assignments
LPC2148
H
E
A
D
E
R
1
H
E
A
D
E
R
2
ISP USB
JTAG UART0
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Testing Blueboard-lpc214x-H
The board is shipped with the pre-loaded firmware which can test all the peripherals.
3.2.1. LED
Test Setup: Power the board with USB and you should observe that the LED blinks for a coupl
times
3.2.2 UART0
Test setup: Connect jumpers to all pins of J6. Open the hyper terminal as shown in the belo
To test the UART you can use either a full modem or half modem cable.
Click on hyper terminal a “Connection Description” window opens. Enter a name under the nam
and click OK.
A “Connect To” window opens where you have to select the COM port. In this example it is CO
A “COM1Properties” window appears.Set the values as shown below.Click OK.
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Next an empty “BlueBoard-Hyper Terminal” window opens as shown.
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Now make sure that the BlueBoard-lpc2148-H is powered and the serial port is connected to t
tested (UART0). By pressing any key from keyboard the following message will appear for the
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For UART0:
UART0 can also be used for serial programming.
3.2.3 USB
Before moving ahead with this section, refer to USB Virtual COM Port Installation for Windo
section.
Test setup: Connect the USB cable to USB connector. The power LED (D14) and USB connect LED
The USB enumeration can be checked in device manager. The BlueBoard enumerates as a Virtual
the Virtual COM port; we can test it as we tested the UART0/1 of BlueBoard.
3.2.4 JTAG connector
Test setup: To enable debugging on the board connect jumper to J11 and connect the JTAG to
successfully tested the BlueBoard with JTAG interface using a Wiggler Clone JTAG. To test t
have the necessary software support on your PC.
Take a look at http://blueboard-lpc214x.googlecode.com/files/NGX_ARM_USB_JTAG.pdf and
http://blueboard-lpc214x.googlecode.com/files/NGX%20parallel%20port%20JTAG.pdf to know how
use the JTAG interface
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4 BlueBoard Utilities
4.1 Overview
For the working with BlueBoard there are certain tools that need to be installed. The tools
required to work with BlueBoard are:
 Flash Magic.
The flash magic tool can be downloaded from the following link:
http://www.flashmagictool.com/
For LINUX machines you may use http://www.pjrc.com/arm/lpc2k_pgm/
Tool chain:
To be able to generate the hex or the binary file the user needs to install the tool chain
based microcontrollers. Any toolchain can be used as long as it is able to generate the nec
for downloading onto the BlueBoard. Here are few toolchain suggestions:
GNUARM ToolChain: http://winarm.scienceprog.com/winarm-tools/prepare-gnuarm-compiler-toolch
WINARM :
Rowley Crossworks IDE: http://www.rowley.co.uk/arm/
Yagarto ToolChain: http://yagarto.de/
KEIL: http://www.keil.com/arm/
IAR: http://iar.com/website1/1.0.1.0/3/1/
4.2 Starting off
The board is shipped with pre-loaded firmware to verify all the above peripherals.
BlueBoard Default Setup:
The blueboard-lpc214x-H will blink the test led for couple times and then will initialize t
peripherals. A default message is dumped on the UART on power up. It also enumerates as USB
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5 Troubleshooting
5.1 USB Virtual COM Port Installation For Windows XP
The USB in BlueBoard might not get enumerated if it does not find the appropriate driver fo
To check USB enumeration status Right Click on “My Computer” icon and select Manage. A “Com
Management” window opens. In this select Device Manager as shown below:
The device uses the usbser.sys driver. This driver file is not unpacked in Windows by defau
to be extracted from a Windows .cab file which should be in the C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i38
directory for Windows XP SP2. Change directory to C:\WINDOWS\Driver Cache\i386 expand the
CAB file by running the below command in Command-Prompt
expand sp2.cab -f:usbser.sys C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers
Note: On some systems like the XP home edition; extraction of driver files from cab files m
supported. In such situation the user can download the usbser.sys file from http://blueboar
googlecode.com/files/usbser.sys and copy it to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers folder
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Next, download the usbser.inf file from http://blueboard-lpc214x.googlecode.com/files/usbse
Place it in any convenient folder
Plug in the device
A Hardware Update Wizard opens up. Select the second option as shown and Click Next.
Note: If the wizard does not open up automatically then the user needs to go the ‘Device Ma
window and right click on the device and select ‘update driver’
Set the new hardware Wizard to search a specific location for the driver, and specify the f
containing usbser.inf
The Wizard will prompt for the location of usbser.sys. Specify its location
(i.e. C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers) and Click Next.
The installation should now complete and indicate the device has been installed. The device
now get enumerated under “Ports(COM & LPT)” option in ‘Device Manager’ window.
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To test the USB interface open Hyper Terminal by selecting the COM port specified by the sy
COM port number assigned to the USB serial device is not fixed and can change. To know the
COM port number the user needs to look into the ‘Device Manager’ page under “Ports(COM & LP
After selecting the appropriate COM PORT, press any key on keyboard; a message will be disp
the hyper terminal window as shown below. This confirms that the USB interface on the BlueB
fine.
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6 Schematics
A PDF version of the schematic can be downloaded from:
http://blueboard-lpc214x.googlecode.com/files/Blueboard-lpc2148_H_schematics.pdf
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7 Sample applications
The source code to demonstrate the usage of the following peripherals can be found at
http://code.google.com/p/blueboard-lpc214x/source/checkout
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8 Known Issues
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