Introduction
This document describes the integration of the delivered EtherCAT example projects for Microchip LAN9255 target with the development environment MPLABX IDE.
Target System
The port EtherCAT stack is implemented and tested with Microchip Board “EVB_LAN9255”.
Toolchain:
Compiler/IDE: XC32 v1.42 / MPLABX IDE v6.05 (or newer)
Flash tool/Debugger: Microchip Pickit4
General information
The LAN9255 is a System on Chip solution. The EtherCAT Stack runs on AT-SAM53x as host and is internal connected with a Microchip LAN9253 EtherCAT® slave controller via the SPI interface.
Only this interface to the LAN9253 is implemented.
The interrupt lines IRQ and SYNC0 from the LAN9253 chip are internal connected with the
external interrupt lines (pins PB23, PB16) from the AT-SAM53x CPU.
The driver used some modules from LAN9255 Peripheral Library provided by Microchip.
You can find port’s EtherCAT example projects in the folder of the delivery package:
../examples/microchip_lan9255/
Additonal the package support a FreeRTOS implementation.
For acivation this feature in the ethercat stack the project preprocessor defines are necessary:
EC_CONFIG_THREAD_SAFE
EC_CONFIG_USE_FREERTOS
For a FreeRTOS implementation please see in the example folders:
..\examples\microchip_lan9255\s1_lan9255_freertos
..\examples\microchip_lan9255\s10_lan9255_isr_pdi_dc_freertos
All other examples are bare metal projects.
Open projects
First open a project from the examples folder inside the MPLABX IDE:
Now you can build both projects.
Next step: Open the “Project Properties” and select the appropriate compiler toolchain and the connected debug Hardware Tool:
Now you can download and test the project.
Available sample applications
s01_lan9255:
SDO read and write
2 RX-PDOs and 2 TX-PDOs
object dictionary containing objects of various data types
bare metal or freertos project version available
s03_lan9255:
SDO read and write
SDO Info service
SDO Info object names
2 RX-PDOs and 2 TX-PDOs
Split SDO-Access
Split NMT-Control
object dictionary containing objects of various data types
s04_lan9255:
SDO read and write
SDO Info service
SDO Info object names
2 RX-PDOs and 2 TX-PDOs
Split SDO-Access
Split NMT-Control
object dictionary containing objects of various data types
EoE service with rudimentary ARP and IGMP support (ping)
FoE service
s05_lan9255:
SDO read and write
SDO Info service
SDO Info object names
2 RX-PDOs and 2 TX-PDOs
object dictionary containing objects of various data types
virtual objects
s07_lan9255:
SDO read and write
SDO Info service
SDO Info object names
2 RX-PDOs and 2 TX-PDOs
object dictionary containing objects of various data types
FoE mailbox service
BOOTSTRAP NMT mode
s09_lan9255:
SDO read and write
2 RX-PDOs and 2 TX-PDOs
object dictionary containing objects of various data types
dynamic PDO mapping with extension module usr_dynPdoMapping
s10_lan9255_xxx:
Interrupt handling
xxx = isr: PDI Events are handled in an ISR
xxx = isr_dc: PDI Events and DC Events are handled in separate ISRs
bare metal or freertos project version available
s11_lan9255_cia402
EtherCAT slave with CiA 402 profile example application