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Create some serious wireless wonders with CYBT-343026-01 and STM32F413RH

Simplify your life with Bluetooth

BT-EZ Click with UNI Clicker

Published Jul 29, 2023

Click board™

BT-EZ Click

Dev Board

UNI Clicker

Compiler

NECTO Studio

MCU

STM32F413RH

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Hardware Overview

How does it work?

BT-EZ Click is based on the CYBT-343026-01, a module from Infineon that has some impressive features, including the fact that it includes a royalty-free Bluetooth stack with Bluetooth 5.0 and BLE supported. Besides that, low power mode enables the module to consume as low as 2.69µA in deep sleep mode, which is ideal for portable, wearable, and various other battery-powered devices and applications. The BT-EZ Click is a fully integrated Bluetooth smart-ready wireless module with an onboard crystal oscillator, passive components, flash memory, and the CYW20706 silicon device from Infineon. The CYBT-343026-01 module also includes a Cortex-M3 32-bit processor and 512 KB of onboard serial flash memory. It is designed for standalone operation, while the integrated power amplifier is used to achieve Class I or II output power capability. The BT-EZ click board uses UART communication and GPIO pins

for communication with the main MCU. The BT-EZ Click supports two UART communication modes. HCI UART intercafe is a standard, 4-wire interface (RX, TX, RTS, and CTS) with adjustable baud rates from 38400 bps to 4 Mbps. During initial boot, UART speeds may be limited to 750 kbps. The baud rate may be selected via a vendor-specific UART HCI command. The UART clock default setting is 24MHz and can run as high as 48 MHz to support up to 4 Mbps. The baud rate of the CYBT-343026-01UART module is controlled by two values: the clock divisor (set in the DLBR register) that divides the UART clock by an integer multiple of 16, and the baud rate adjustment (set in the DHBR register) that is used to specify the number of UART clock cycles to stuff in the first or second half of each bit time. The BT-EZ click has a second UART (PUART) mode that may be used to interface with other peripherals. This peripheral UART is

accessed through the optional I/O ports, which can be configured individually and separately for each signal. The external I2C pad provides a 2-pin master I2C interface, which can retrieve configuration information from an external EEPROM or communicate with peripherals such as track-ball or touch-pad modules and motion-tracking ICs used in mouse devices. This interface is compatible with I2C slave devices. I2C does not support multi-master capability or flexible wait-state insertion by either master or slave devices. This Click board™ can be operated only with a 3.3V logic voltage level. The board must perform appropriate logic voltage level conversion before using MCUs with different logic levels. Also, it comes equipped with a library containing functions and an example code that can be used, as a reference, for further development.

BT-EZ Click top side image
BT-EZ Click bottom side image

Features overview

Development board

UNI Clicker is a compact development board designed as a complete solution that brings the flexibility of add-on Click boards™ to your favorite microcontroller, making it a perfect starter kit for implementing your ideas. It supports a wide range of microcontrollers, such as different ARM, PIC32, dsPIC, PIC, and AVR from various vendors like Microchip, ST, NXP, and TI (regardless of their number of pins), four mikroBUS™ sockets for Click board™ connectivity, a USB connector, LED indicators, buttons, a debugger/programmer connector, and two 26-pin headers for interfacing with external electronics. Thanks to innovative manufacturing technology, it allows you to build

gadgets with unique functionalities and features quickly. Each part of the UNI Clicker development kit contains the components necessary for the most efficient operation of the same board. In addition to the possibility of choosing the UNI Clicker programming method, using a third-party programmer or CODEGRIP/mikroProg connected to onboard JTAG/SWD header, the UNI Clicker board also includes a clean and regulated power supply module for the development kit. It provides two ways of board-powering; through the USB Type-C (USB-C) connector, where onboard voltage regulators provide the appropriate voltage levels to each component on the board, or using a Li-Po/Li

Ion battery via an onboard battery connector. All communication methods that mikroBUS™ itself supports are on this board (plus USB HOST/DEVICE), including the well-established mikroBUS™ socket, a standardized socket for the MCU card (SiBRAIN standard), and several user-configurable buttons and LED indicators. UNI Clicker is an integral part of the Mikroe ecosystem, allowing you to create a new application in minutes. Natively supported by Mikroe software tools, it covers many aspects of prototyping thanks to a considerable number of different Click boards™ (over a thousand boards), the number of which is growing every day.

UNI clicker double image

Microcontroller Overview

MCU Card / MCU

default

Type

8th Generation

Architecture

ARM Cortex-M4

MCU Memory (KB)

1536

Silicon Vendor

STMicroelectronics

Pin count

64

RAM (Bytes)

327680

Used MCU Pins

mikroBUS™ mapper

NC
NC
AN
Reset
PC13
RST
UART CTS
PA4
CS
NC
NC
SCK
NC
NC
MISO
NC
NC
MOSI
Power Supply
3.3V
3.3V
Ground
GND
GND
NC
NC
PWM
UART RTS
PB13
INT
UART TX
PA2
TX
UART RX
PA3
RX
NC
NC
SCL
NC
NC
SDA
NC
NC
5V
Ground
GND
GND
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Take a closer look

Schematic

BT-EZ Click Schematic schematic

Step by step

Project assembly

UNI Clicker front image hardware assembly

Start by selecting your development board and Click board™. Begin with the UNI Clicker as your development board.

UNI Clicker front image hardware assembly
Thermo 28 Click front image hardware assembly
SiBRAIN for STM32F745VG front image hardware assembly
Prog-cut hardware assembly
UNI Clicker MB 1 - upright/with-background hardware assembly
Necto image step 2 hardware assembly
Necto image step 3 hardware assembly
Necto image step 4 hardware assembly
Necto image step 5 hardware assembly
Necto image step 6 hardware assembly
Necto image step 7 hardware assembly
Necto No Display image step 8 hardware assembly
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Debug Image Necto Step hardware assembly

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Application Output via Debug Mode

1. Once the code example is loaded, pressing the "DEBUG" button initiates the build process, programs it on the created setup, and enters Debug mode.

2. After the programming is completed, a header with buttons for various actions within the IDE becomes visible. Clicking the green "PLAY" button starts reading the results achieved with the Click board™. The achieved results are displayed in the Application Output tab.

DEBUG_Application_Output

Software Support

Library Description

This library contains API for BT-EZ Click driver.

Key functions:

  • btez_generic_write - Generic write function

  • btez_generic_read - Generic read function

  • btez_send_command - Send command function

Open Source

Code example

This example can be found in NECTO Studio. Feel free to download the code, or you can copy the code below.

/*!
 * \file 
 * \brief BtEz Click example
 * 
 * # Description
 * This example reads and processes data from BT-EZ clicks.
 *
 * The demo application is composed of two sections :
 * 
 * ## Application Init 
 * Initializes the driver and configures the click board.
 * 
 * ## Application Task  
 * Checks for the received data, reads it and replies with a certain message.
 * 
 * ## Additional Function
 * - btez_process ( ) - Logs all received messages on UART, and sends the certain
 * message back to the connected device.
 * 
 * @note
 * We have used the Serial Bluetooth Terminal smartphone application for the test. 
 * A smartphone and the click board must be paired in order to exchange messages
 * with each other.
 * 
 * \author MikroE Team
 *
 */
// ------------------------------------------------------------------- INCLUDES

#include "board.h"
#include "log.h"
#include "btez.h"
#include "string.h"

#define PROCESS_COUNTER 100
#define PROCESS_RX_BUFFER_SIZE 200

#define CMD_PING           "/PING"
#define CMD_DEVICE_NAME    "SDN,N=BT-EZ_Click"
#define CMD_SAVE           "SDA$,A=0080"
#define CMD_GDN            "GDN"
#define SEND_DATA          "MikroE // BT-EZ click\r\n"

// ------------------------------------------------------------------ VARIABLES

static btez_t btez;
static log_t logger;
static uint8_t config_mode = 0;
static char current_parser_buf[ PROCESS_RX_BUFFER_SIZE ];

// ------------------------------------------------------- ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS

static void btez_process ( void )
{
    int32_t rsp_size;
    uint16_t rsp_cnt = 0;
    uint8_t ret_flag = 0;
    
    char uart_rx_buffer[ PROCESS_RX_BUFFER_SIZE ] = { 0 };
    uint8_t check_buf_cnt;
    uint8_t process_cnt = PROCESS_COUNTER;
    
    // Clear current buffer
    memset( current_parser_buf, 0, PROCESS_RX_BUFFER_SIZE ); 
    
    while( process_cnt != 0 )
    {
        rsp_size = btez_generic_read( &btez, &uart_rx_buffer, PROCESS_RX_BUFFER_SIZE );

        if ( rsp_size > 0 )
        {  
            // Validation of the received data
            for ( check_buf_cnt = 0; check_buf_cnt < rsp_size; check_buf_cnt++ )
            {
                if ( uart_rx_buffer[ check_buf_cnt ] == 0 ) 
                {
                    uart_rx_buffer[ check_buf_cnt ] = 13;
                }
            }
            // Storages data in current buffer
            rsp_cnt += rsp_size;
            if ( rsp_cnt < PROCESS_RX_BUFFER_SIZE )
            {
                strncat( current_parser_buf, uart_rx_buffer, rsp_size );
            }
            
            if ( strchr ( uart_rx_buffer, '@' ) )
            {
                ret_flag = 1;
                process_cnt = 3;
            }
            else if ( config_mode == 0 )
            {
                btez_send_command( &btez, SEND_DATA );
                ret_flag = 2;
                process_cnt = 3;
            }
            
            // Clear RX buffer
            memset( uart_rx_buffer, 0, PROCESS_RX_BUFFER_SIZE );
        } 
        else 
        {
            process_cnt--;
            
            // Process delay 
            Delay_ms( 100 );
        }
    }
    
    if ( ret_flag != 0 )
    {
        log_printf( &logger, "%s", current_parser_buf );
    }
}

// ------------------------------------------------------ APPLICATION FUNCTIONS

void application_init ( void )
{
    log_cfg_t log_cfg;
    btez_cfg_t cfg;

    /** 
     * Logger initialization.
     * Default baud rate: 115200
     * Default log level: LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG
     * @note If USB_UART_RX and USB_UART_TX 
     * are defined as HAL_PIN_NC, you will 
     * need to define them manually for log to work. 
     * See @b LOG_MAP_USB_UART macro definition for detailed explanation.
     */
    LOG_MAP_USB_UART( log_cfg );
    log_init( &logger, &log_cfg );
    log_info( &logger, "---- Application Init ----" );

    //  Click initialization.

    btez_cfg_setup( &cfg );
    BTEZ_MAP_MIKROBUS( cfg, MIKROBUS_1 );
    btez_init( &btez, &cfg );
    Delay_ms( 100 );

    log_printf( &logger, "Configuring the module...\r\n" );
    config_mode = 1;
    
    btez_module_reset( &btez );
    btez_process( );
    btez_send_command( &btez, CMD_PING );
    btez_process( );
    btez_send_command( &btez, CMD_DEVICE_NAME );
    btez_process( );
    btez_send_command( &btez, CMD_SAVE );
    btez_process( );
    btez_send_command( &btez, CMD_GDN );
    btez_process( );
    
    config_mode = 0;
    log_printf( &logger, "The module has been configured.\r\n" );
    Delay_1sec( );
}

void application_task ( void )
{
    btez_process( );
}

void main ( void )
{
    application_init( );

    for ( ; ; )
    {
        application_task( );
    }
}

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------ END

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