PanelDue 7i as a board in the Platformio

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With the PanelDue 7i you could implement many exciting projects.
My project is a customized CNC display.
I’m looking for people to help implement PanelDue as a board for PlatformIO in VisualStudio Code

Functions

  • 800 × 480 Pixeln auf einem 7-Zoll-LCD mit Touch
  • serial Port / Micro-SD / Buzzer
  • ATSAM4S4B MCU 120MHz, 64kB RAM, 256kb flash.
  • Manufacturer link Duet 3D

Steps I’ve already taken

  • Create board C:\Users\pr.platformio\platforms\atmelsam\boards\PanelDue7i.json
  • Download Microchip Packs RepositoryAtmel SAM4S Series Device Support
  • Copy File to C:\Users\pr.platformio\platforms\atmelsam\misc\svd\ATSAM4S4B.svd
  • …

I’ve already invested a few hours and want to document the progress.
I have problems with the extra_flags, variant and everything I don’t know yet.
I look forward to recations that could help.

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With which framework is the board support to be used? By default, platform-atmelsam has the general builder scripts for Arduino, Simba, Zephyr and mbed-os. And I don’t see any of these frameworks supporting a ATSAM4S4B if I search in their repos.

The page PanelDue - Not Maintained as the only developer resource links to a 3D printer sofotware GitHub - Duet3D/PanelDueFirmware: Firmware for the PanelDue touch screen for 3D printers.

The only thing that will surely work is setting up a Atmel-CMSIS environment like done in GitHub - maxgerhardt/pio-baremetal-atmel-cmsis and discussed in Bare metal on arduino due / atmelsam.

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As a matter of fact…
The MCU is not even available on https://start.atmel.com
Previous success in the Microchip Studio with ASF is the MCU listed

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They may not have any example projects there but they have general ATSAM4S4B support in the ASDF source. In fact, that’s what their PanelDueFirmware seems to be built on.

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I’ve created the repos

The first one is a minimal firmware with only the Atmel-CMSIS firmware, you’ll have to do writes to the peripheral registers to achieve anything useful in main().

Tthe other one is the PanelDueFirmware forked to build the final firmware (paneldue-logo.bin and paneldue-logo.bin, akin to PanelDueFirmware-3.4.0-7.0i.bin and PanelDueFirmware-logo-3.4.0-7.0i.bin, see Installing and Updating PanelDue Firmware - Not Maintained and Releases · Duet3D/PanelDueFirmware · GitHub). You can download the repo and open the platformio subfolder as a project in PIO Home to open, or directly execute pio run in that directory.

Can you test those out?

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Many Thanks
I will test it in the next free minutes.

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Hi, I’m very interested in this
Any progress or how can I help ?