Automotive instrument cluster using MPC5606S

[sreedevi_mohan]

Hi All,
We are developing an automotive instrument cluster using MPC5606S controller. We need some clarification regarding the same.

1. Which is the Operating system used in this controller?
2. From where we can download the latest SDK for the same?
3. How to compile the source code? Any IDE is available?
4. We are going to include a 7" TFT display. How we can load the UI templates from MPC. Any UI framework (like qt,guix..etc) can be used here?

[sreedevi_mohan]

But the README doc from the zip you provided says that it's for MPC5606S. Can you provide the zip or link for MPC5645S?.  

https://community.nxp.com/docs/DOC-329623#MPC5606S  

Think link is also not having MPC5645 examples. Could you please provide that too ?

[lukaszadrapa]

It was written mainly for MPC5606S but it can be used also for MPC5645S. I found attached demo for MPC5645S.

Regards,

Lukas

[sreedevi_mohan]

Which is the compiler for the attached code codewarrior or s32?

[lukaszadrapa]

The project is created in CodeWarrior.

[sreedevi_mohan]

Hi Lukas,

We are having some more doubts in MPC5606S cluster development.

1. We already know that MPC5606S will not support WVGA format. But, whether we can achieve the same by stretching the image or adding a buffer ? Or any other method is available?

2.  The zip which containing the graphics libraries and tools is mentioning about the display of static pages only. As we said earlier, developing an automotive cluster.we need to show the real time data dynamically. How we can do the same in MPC5606s?

[lukaszadrapa]

Hi,

1. I can't help here, it was not expected use-case.

2. Attached is a video which shows capabilities of the device. It uses features described in lab tutorials which can be found in the zip file.

Regards,

Lukas

[sreedevi_mohan]

Do you have any idea that what will be the display output if we are using 7" TFT Display in MPC5606S? . We have seen a WQVGA Display used in the demo video attached. What should be the size of display to match the resolution supported by MPC5606S?

[lukaszadrapa]

You can use this calculator to see the dot pitch:

DPI Calculator / PPI Calculator 

In case of 7" display and resolution 480x272, you will get pitch about 0.32mm.

Just for comparison, most of the computer displays have pitch usually 0.25 - 0.28mm. It's up to you what kind of display quality you need.

Regards,

Lukas

[sreedevi_mohan]

Thanks for the reply Lukas.

We are having some doubts that need to be clarified.

1. You said that s32 design studio is free of charge. So, what is the difference between code-warrior and s32?. Any restriction there in s32 design studio?. We have to forward with the right one before going for implementation.

2. The zip you have provided for dynamic graphics library is based on code warrior IDE right? Can we port this to S32 design studio? 

3. We were able to see the lab tutorials. But no document is there for getting the explanation of each example. Can we get this to understand these without the IDE and reference board?

[lukaszadrapa]

Hi Sreedevi,

1. S32 Design Studio is newer one, it's successor of CodeWarrior. My recommendation is to use S32DS because it's free of charge. There are no restrictions.

2. Yes, the code can be ported to S32DS. I can't see problem here.

3. Can you see this folder?

c:\Program Files (x86)\Freescale\MPC56xxSLibsV2_0R46\MPC56xxSLibsV2_0R46\Doc\

The labs are explained here:

c:\Program Files (x86)\Freescale\MPC56xxSLibsV2_0R46\MPC56xxSLibsV2_0R46\Doc\labs\Labs.pdf

And there are other useful documents.

Regards,

Lukas

[sreedevi_mohan]

Thanks Lukas.

So,we found the lab examples provided in the zip and also the tools required to make the graphics library.

1. Whether we need some QT kind of applications in MPC5645S to load this graphics or can we integrate the generated library files to the freertos in which we are doing the integration? we were able to see main.c files and the dependent .c and .h in lab examples.

2. Which is the latest version of freeRTOS that can be used in MPC5645S which is handling the features including audio codec, TFT screen and CAN data transfer?

[lukaszadrapa]

There are some tools in the package like FreescaleImageEncoder which can help you to generate own source data for images.

I can't help with freeRTOS. It's open source not managed by us. If port for MPC5645S is not available, you can port any version you wish.

Regards,

Lukas

[sreedevi_mohan]

Thanks Luka.

We have seen that openVG graphics support is there in MPC5645S(From RM). Can we use the qtquick tools to make a qt app and run this on MPC54645S?

[lukaszadrapa]

I have no experience with qtquick but I think there's no support. I can see it supports devices like i.MX6 or i.MX7.

[lukaszadrapa]

By the way, have you considered devices like i.MX?