MPLAB® Harmony v3 Peripheral Libraries on SAM L10: Step 6

Last modified by Microchip on 2023/11/09 09:09

Build, Program and Observe the Outputs

Verify that the temperature sensor (I/O1 Xplained Pro Extension Kit) is connected to Extension Header 1 (EXT1) on the SAM L10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit.

connected to the Extension Header 1

The SAM L10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit allows using the Embedded Debugger (EDBG) for debugging. Connect the Type-A male to micro-B USB cable to the micro-B DEBUG USB port to power and debug the SAM L10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit.

connected to PC

Go to File > Project Properties and make sure that the EDBG is selected as the debugger under the Hardware Tools and XC32 (v4.30) is selected as the Compiler Toolchain for XC32.

XC32 Compiler Toolchain selection

Clean and build your application by clicking on the Clean and Build button as shown.

Clean and Build button

Program your application to the device, by clicking on the Make and Program button as shown.

Make and Program button

The lab should build and program successfully.

Now, open the Tera Term terminal application on your PC (from the Windows® Start menu by pressing the Start button). Select the Serial Port as shown.

tera term new connection window

Change the baud rate to 115200.

Setup > Serial port menu

baud rate setup

You should see the temperature values (in °F) being displayed on the terminal every 500 milliseconds, as shown.

temperature values

Also, notice the LED0 blinking at a 500 millisecond rate.

You may vary the temperature by placing your finger on the temperature sensor (for a few seconds).

temperature sensor

Press the SW0 switch on the SAM L10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit to change the default sampling rate to one second.

SW0 switch

Sampling every 1 second

Every subsequent pressing of the SW0 switch on the SAM L10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit changes the default sampling rate to two seconds, four seconds, 500 milliseconds, and back to one second in cyclic order as shown.

change Temp Sampling Rate

While the temperature sampling rate changes on every switch SW0 press, notice the LED0 toggling at the same sampling rate.

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Results

You observed that the application displayed the current room temperature values on the serial terminal every 500 milliseconds. You were able to change the temperature sampling values dynamically by pressing a user switch on the development kit. You could exercise sampling changes to one second, two seconds, four seconds, and cycle back to 500 milliseconds every time you pressed the user switch. You also observed that a user LED was toggled every time the current temperature is displayed on the serial terminal.

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Analysis

You have successfully created your first application using MPLAB® Harmony v3 on a SAM L10 microcontroller. Your application used all the fundamental elements that go into building a real-time application. Your application successfully read temperature sensor values and displayed them periodically over a serial terminal on a PC. The application also took user input by pressing a switch on the development board.

In this application, you used the MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) to configure the SAM L10 and also used the MPLAB Harmony v3 Framework. You used the clock configurator to set up the CPU clock and timer (Real-Time Clock (RTC)) clock. You configured SERCOM1 (as I²C), SERCOM0 (as Universal Synchronous Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter (USART)), RTC, and External Interrupt Controller (EIC) Peripheral Libraries (PLIBs). You also configured the Direct Memory Access (DMA) using the DMA configurator. You used the pin configurator to set up the pins for LED and switch functions.

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Conclusions

This tutorial provided you with training in configuring and using all the fundamental components needed to build a real-time application on a SAM L10 microcontroller with MPLAB Harmony v3 Framework. As a next step, you may customize this application and reconfigure some of the components used in this tutorial. You could also add new components (PLIBs, etc.) to enhance this application to realize your end application.

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