Turn your moves into tangible achievements with with LIS2DW12 and ATmega328
Tri-Axis brilliance: Redefining motion tracking for the future
Published Feb 14, 2024
Click board™
Accel 10 Click
Dev Board
Arduino UNO Rev3
Compiler
NECTO Studio
MCU
ATmega328
Our three-axis accelerometer is engineered to revolutionize motion sensing, providing accurate and real-time measurements for a multitude of applications
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Hardware Overview
How does it work?
Accel 10 Click is based on the LIS2DW12TR, a high-performance ultra-low-power 3-axis "femto" accelerometer, from STMicroelectronics. This sensor has many features perfectly suited for wearables, handheld, and IoT applications, offering a good balance between the performance and the power consumption. One of its key features is its extremely low power consumption, which makes it perfectly suited for such applications. There are several power modes which the LIS2DW12TR device can use. While in Low Power mode, the device consumes only 0.38µA, but the access to some features is restricted. Having that in mind, accel 10 Click can be used for a rapid development and testing of various applications based on step counting, fitness applications, profile switching and display ON/OFF applications, angle measurement applications, and similar applications. More information can be found within the LIS2DW12TR datasheet. The LIS2DW12TR sensor can measure acceleration within ranges of ±2 g, ±4 g, ±8, and ±16 g. It can output the measurement data using the Output Data Rate (ODR) from 1.6Hz (Low Power mode), up to 1600Hz (Performance mode). A high-precision analog front end facilitates highly sensitive MEMS,
featuring a 14-bit A/D Converter. It allows very high accuracy of the output, even during very low amplitude changes. This makes the sensor particularly sensitive and accurate with movements that generate relatively low acceleration signals. However, using a highly sensitive MEMS makes the LIS2DW12TR prone to damage caused by extremely high g-forces (10,000 g for less than 200 µs). Acceleration data is available in 14-bit format from both the data registers and the internal FIFO buffer, which can can memorize 32 slots of X, Y and Z data. The FIFO buffer can be used for more complex calculations or timed readings, reducing the traffic on the communication interface. FIFO buffer allows optimization within the firmware that runs on the host MCU. Besides the acceleration MEMS and complementary analog front-end circuit, the LIS2DW12TR sensor also has an integrated temperature sensor. It is updated up to 25 times per second, and sampled to an 12-bit value (complement of 2’s format). Interrupts can be triggered for many different events. Some basic events include the data-ready interrupt event and aforementioned FIFO events, while so-called feature engines can trigger an interrupt for any of
the detected motion/movement events, including step detection/counter, activity recognition, tilt on wrist, tap/double tap, any/no motion, and error event interrupt. The extensive interrupt engine can use two programmable interrupt pins. Both of these pins can be assigned with any interrupt source and can be either LOW or HIGH on interrupt, depending on settings in appropriate registers. These two pins are routed to PWM and INT pin of the mikroBUS™, and are labeled as IT1 and IT2, respectively. Accel 10 Click offers two communication interfaces. It can be used with either I2C or SPI. The onboard SMD jumpers labeled as COMM SEL allow switching between the two interfaces. Note that all the jumpers have to be positioned either I2C or to SPI position. When I2C interface is selected, an additional SMD jumper labeled as ADDR SEL becomes available, determining the least significant bit of the LIS2DW12TR I2C address. This Click Board™ uses both I2C and SPI communication interfaces. It is designed to be operated only with 3.3V logic levels. A proper logic voltage level conversion should be performed before the Click board™ is used with MCUs with logic levels of 5V.
Features overview
Development board
Arduino UNO is a versatile microcontroller board built around the ATmega328P chip. It offers extensive connectivity options for various projects, featuring 14 digital input/output pins, six of which are PWM-capable, along with six analog inputs. Its core components include a 16MHz ceramic resonator, a USB connection, a power jack, an
ICSP header, and a reset button, providing everything necessary to power and program the board. The Uno is ready to go, whether connected to a computer via USB or powered by an AC-to-DC adapter or battery. As the first USB Arduino board, it serves as the benchmark for the Arduino platform, with "Uno" symbolizing its status as the
first in a series. This name choice, meaning "one" in Italian, commemorates the launch of Arduino Software (IDE) 1.0. Initially introduced alongside version 1.0 of the Arduino Software (IDE), the Uno has since become the foundational model for subsequent Arduino releases, embodying the platform's evolution.
Microcontroller Overview
MCU Card / MCU
Architecture
AVR
MCU Memory (KB)
32
Silicon Vendor
Microchip
Pin count
32
RAM (Bytes)
2048
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Accessories
Click Shield for Arduino UNO has two proprietary mikroBUS™ sockets, allowing all the Click board™ devices to be interfaced with the Arduino UNO board without effort. The Arduino Uno, a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328P, provides an affordable and flexible way for users to try out new concepts and build prototypes with the ATmega328P microcontroller from various combinations of performance, power consumption, and features. The Arduino Uno has 14 digital input/output pins (of which six can be used as PWM outputs), six analog inputs, a 16 MHz ceramic resonator (CSTCE16M0V53-R0), a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and reset button. Most of the ATmega328P microcontroller pins are brought to the IO pins on the left and right edge of the board, which are then connected to two existing mikroBUS™ sockets. This Click Shield also has several switches that perform functions such as selecting the logic levels of analog signals on mikroBUS™ sockets and selecting logic voltage levels of the mikroBUS™ sockets themselves. Besides, the user is offered the possibility of using any Click board™ with the help of existing bidirectional level-shifting voltage translators, regardless of whether the Click board™ operates at a 3.3V or 5V logic voltage level. Once you connect the Arduino UNO board with our Click Shield for Arduino UNO, you can access hundreds of Click boards™, working with 3.3V or 5V logic voltage levels.
Used MCU Pins
mikroBUS™ mapper
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Schematic
Step by step
Project assembly
Start by selecting your development board and Click board™. Begin with the Arduino UNO Rev3 as your development board.
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Application Output
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.
Software Support
Library Description
This library contains API for Accel 10 Click driver.
Key functions:
accel10_check_data_ready- Check data ready functionaccel10_get_data- Read Accel data functionaccel10_read_temperature- Read temperature 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 Accel10 Click example
*
* # Description
* This example demonstrates the use of Accel 10 click board.
*
* The demo application is composed of two sections :
*
* ## Application Init
* Initializes the driver and checks the communication by reading the device ID.
* After that, performs the click default configuration.
*
* ## Application Task
* Reads the accel values for X, Y, and Z axis and also reads the temperature in Celsius
* and displays the results on the USB UART each second.
*
* \author Nenad Filipovic
*
*/
// ------------------------------------------------------------------- INCLUDES
#include "board.h"
#include "log.h"
#include "accel10.h"
// ------------------------------------------------------------------ VARIABLES
static accel10_t accel10;
static log_t logger;
static accel10_data_t accel_data;
static int8_t temperature;
// ------------------------------------------------------ APPLICATION FUNCTIONS
void application_init ( void )
{
log_cfg_t log_cfg;
accel10_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.
accel10_cfg_setup( &cfg );
ACCEL10_MAP_MIKROBUS( cfg, MIKROBUS_1 );
accel10_init( &accel10, &cfg );
Delay_ms( 500 );
log_printf( &logger, "---------------------\r\n" );
log_printf( &logger, " Accel 10 Click\r\n" );
log_printf( &logger, "---------------------\r\n" );
// Checking communication
if ( accel10_check_id( &accel10 ) == ACCEL10_SUCCESS )
{
log_printf( &logger, " Communication OK\r\n" );
log_printf( &logger, "---------------------\r\n" );
Delay_ms( 100 );
}
else
{
log_printf( &logger, " Communication ERROR\r\n" );
log_printf( &logger, " Reset the device\r\n" );
log_printf( &logger, "---------------------\r\n" );
for ( ; ; );
}
accel10_default_cfg ( &accel10 );
log_printf( &logger, " Default config.\r\n" );
log_printf( &logger, "---------------------\r\n" );
Delay_ms( 100 );
}
void application_task ( void )
{
if ( accel10_check_data_ready( &accel10 ) == ACCEL10_STATUS_DATA_READY )
{
accel10_get_data ( &accel10, &accel_data );
Delay_ms( 10 );
log_printf( &logger, " Accel X : %d\r\n", accel_data.x );
log_printf( &logger, " Accel Y : %d\r\n", accel_data.y );
log_printf( &logger, " Accel Z : %d\r\n", accel_data.z );
temperature = accel10_read_temperature( &accel10 );
Delay_ms( 10 );
log_printf( &logger, " Temperature : %d C\r\n", ( int16_t ) temperature );
log_printf( &logger, "---------------------\r\n" );
Delay_ms( 1000 );
}
}
void main ( void )
{
application_init( );
for ( ; ; )
{
application_task( );
}
}
// ------------------------------------------------------------------------ END
