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SCA3000 DEMO KIT

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SCA3000 DEMO KIT

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 Introduction .........................................................................................................................3

2 Quick start for using the SCA3000 DEMO KIT..................................................................3

3 Hardware..............................................................................................................................4

4 GUI software........................................................................................................................4

4.1

Resetting GUI and µC..............................................................................................................11

4.2

Uninstalling the GUI and USB driver......................................................................................11

5 Advanced data logging.....................................................................................................11

6 SCA3000 current consumption measurement with DEMO KIT.....................................13

7 USB interface board circuit diagram...............................................................................14

8 USB interface board PWB layout.....................................................................................17

9 Troubleshooting................................................................................................................18

9.1

Known Issues...........................................................................................................................20

9.1.1

Floating SCA3000 CLK-pin.................................................................................................20

9.1.2

Changing the serial bus type...............................................................................................20

9.1.3

Interference from USB communication ...............................................................................20

10 Document Revision History .............................................................................................21

11 Contact Information..........................................................................................................21

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1 Introduction

SCA3000 demo demonstrates the SCA3000 component functionality and the component key

properties. This document describes how to install the required software and how to use the

SCA3000 demo board and Grap hical User Interface (GUI) software version 1.1.

SCA3000 demo consists of:

• SCA3000 sensor soldered on chip carrier PWB (see Figure 1 on next page)

• USB interface card (see Figure 1 on next page)

• USB cable

• GUI software running on PC

The SCA3000 DEMO KIT supports all SCA3000 series sensors: SCA3000-D01, SCA3000-D02,

SCA3000-E01, SCA3000-E02 and SCA3000-E04. The evaluation boards (SCA3000 PWBs) are

compatible with the SCA3000 DEMO KI T.

SCA3000 demo runs on Windows XP and 2000, it requires USB connection for data transfer.

Demo is powered from USB port.

2 Quick start for using the SCA3000 DEMO KIT

Please follow the steps below:

1. Insert CD-ROM

2. Setup the hardware

- Connect the demo kit to PC's USB port

3. Install the USB driver, after the PC has found the device

- When the PC detects the new USB device, do not let Windows to detect the driver,

address the USB driver from folder:

"CD-ROM\SCA3000 demo - Virtual Com Port Drivers\”

- NOTICE, if you have already installed the SCP1000 demo to your computer,

please check that the latency timer parameter is 5 ms. In case the latency timer

value is greater than 5 ms, the SCA3000 DEMO KIT GUI will not work (more

detailed instructions in section 9)

4. Install the GUI software

- Install the GUI software by running the “setup.exe" from folder:

CD-ROM\SCA3000 demo - ver 1.1 - Installer

- Do not change the installation destinatio n

5. Start the GUI software

- From Start → Programs → SCA3000-USB-DEMO-VER-1.1 →

SCA3000-USB-DEMO-VER-1.1

When using the SCA3000 DEMO KIT with GUI software:

• The DEMO KIT should be con nected to PC before the GUI software is started

• Exit the GUI software before unpluggi ng the DEMO KIT from PC

• After GUI software is stopped, the DEMO KIT can be unplugged from PC (DEMO KIT uses

virtual serial port driver, so it can not be found as a USB device).

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3 Hardware

The SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board (black PWB) and SCA3000 PWB (red PWB) are

shown in Figure 1. The USB interface card converts the USB interface to SPI or I2C interface.

SCA3000 sensor is solde red on PWB which is connected to interface board.

Green led: data transfer SCA3000 sensor

Test points for

SCA3000 sensor

Idd measurement

Red led: demo

powered from USB

Demo reset

Figure 1. SCA3000 demo USB interface board and SCA3000 PWB.

4 GUI software

SCA3000 DEMO KIT is controlled via USB serial port by GUI software.

The GUI software has five different display modes. The SCA3000 sensor can be set to:

- normal measurement mod e,

- normal measurement mod e with free fall detection enabled and

- motion detection mode.

The interrupt detected due free fall or motion is indicated by led indicator and sound (if PC sounds

are enabled). Once interrupt is detected, the interrupt has to be clear ed b y us er by p ress i ng th e red

led. The led appears on display only when the interrupt is detected.

The five different GUI displays and start up screens are presented below.

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Screen capture of the GUI is presented i n Figure 2.

Figure 2. SCA3000 DEMO KIT Graphical User Interface

Table 1. The numbered items in Figure 2.

11.

14. 13. 12.

10.

Item Description

1 Temperature display, if temperature info rmation is available for the

sensor.

2 Exit software, [Esc]-button also.

3 Data overflow; if the indicator is red, the acceleration register has overflow

→ measured acceleration is out of measuring range.

4 Resultant acceleration ON / OFF ( ).

5 Save acceleration data in to text file.

6 Freeze image, start / stop the scrolli ng window, [Page-Up] button also.

7 Zero gravitation ON / OFF.

8 Open / close the window ex tension with arrow button (available only in

SCROLL display).

9 Pull down menu for acceleration [g] range (Y-axis).

10 Selected sensor type and GUI software version num ber.

11 Averaging ON / OFF, number of samples for averaging.

12 Full resolution / 8-bit resolution selection (acceleration MSB byte only).

13 Pull down menu for SCA3000 measurem ent mode.

14 Pull down menu for GUI display mode.

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If more than one USB serial port devices

are connected to PC, user must select the

correct USB SERIAL PORT from pop-up

window (Figure 3). If user does not know

the correct USB serial port number, please

disconnect all other USB serial port

devices from PC and restart the GUI

software.

Figure 3. USB serial port selection pop-up window.

User needs to select the correct product

type from PRODUCT SELECTION pop-up

window (Figure 4). SCA3000-D01 is

selected by default, product type can be

found from top SCA3000 component, see

Figure 1. Product selection affects on the

used serial communication (SPI / I2C) as

well as the sensor output scaling to

acceleration.

Figure 4. Product selection pop-up window.

SCROLL, continuously scrolling X, Y, Z

and resultant accelerations, see Figure 5.

Acceleration is presented in [g]. User can:

- change the acceleration scale

- freeze the scrolling image

- change the averaging factor

- set averaging OFF

- save acceleration data into file

- enable resultant scrolling

- select between full resolution and 8-bit

resolution (only the MSB bytes of the

acceleration data are presented)

- detect which axis caused the

interruption in motion detection mode

(by clearing the interrupt)

Most of the actions/controls listed above

are in the extension part of the window,

which can be accessed by pressing the

arrow button (see Figure 2 and Table 1 ).

Figure 5. Scroll display with detected free fall.

The red led in the lower left corner in Figure 5 indicates the detected free fall. By pressing the red led the

interrupt is cleared by reading the INT_STATUS register. The pull down menu for different displays is

disabled when free fall or motion dete ctor mod e is activated.

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The red led in the lower left corner in

Figure 6 indicates the detected motion. By

pressing the red led the interrupt is cleared

by reading the INT_STATUS register.

The INT_STATUS register contains the

information of the interrupt cause. In Figure

6 Y- and Z-axis acceleration triggered the

motion detector in previous time.

The pull down menu for different displays

is disabled when free fall or motion

detector mode is activated.

Figure 6. Scroll display with detected motion.

BUBBLE LEVEL, two displays that show

tilt angle, see Figure 7. Angle calculation is

performed in GUI, not in SCA3000 sensor.

SCA3000 sensor averaging can be

enabled / disabled.

Figure 7. Bubble level display.

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Figure 8. 3D display.

3D, 3 dimensional display with projections

of each axis acceleration, see Figure 8.

The minimum and maximum resultant

accelerations as well as the current

resultant acceleration are displayed on the

right side of the graph. Minimum and

maximum displays can be cleared by

pressing the "Reset" button .

DATA LOGGER, display where user can:

- log data (maximum log time 5 s)

- view the logged data in [g]

- view the demonstrator speed as a

function time (speed [m/s] is derived by

integrating the acceleration data)

- view the inertial navigation results

(distance [m] as a function of time is

derived by integrating the acceleration

data twice)

To start the data logging press the "Start

measurement" button. The actual data

logging starts when the green "Measuring

data" indicator lights up in the upper right

corner of the window. Data is logged for

predefined time period (“Measure time”).

The results are calculated afterwards. The

green "Measuring data" indicator is

activated also during the result calculation.

Figure 9. Data logger display.

The resultant (acceleration [g], speed [m/s] and distance [m]) is calculated from the respective

3-axis results as follows:

Please notice that inertial navigation contains six degrees of freedom and 3-axis accelerometer can

handle only three degrees of freedom (rotations and tilting can not be detected when inertial

navigation is performed only by 3-axis accelerometer).

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access in to SCA3000 sensor internal

registers. Registers can be read and

written. The written data format can be

changed between binary and hexadecimal

by pressing the "Bits / Hex" button.

User can read automatically all

configuration registers by pressing the

“Save reg content” button. The results are

saved into file and they can be viewed

from “Register content” tab as well.

igure 10. SCA3000 register configuration display.

SPI frame format for each operation can

be viewed from “Waveform” tab (see

Figure 11).

Figure 11. SCA3000 SPI waveforms in register

configuration display.

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SETUP display presents some operational

parameters of selected component type,

please refer to component specific

documentation for further information.

“Data tran sf er wa it [ms]” is th e de lay in GU I

software between the successive data

readings from virtual serial port. If the GUI

sw does not run properly, user can try if

increasing this delay results in better GUI

software functionality.

The used virtual serial COM port number

can be viewed from "Serial port" display.

This information is needed if the SCA3000

DEMO KIT is used without the GUI

software, see further details from section 5.

In this example the SCA3000 DEMO KIT

uses COM4 serial port.

Figure 12. Setup display.

RESET DEMO initialises the GUI software.

µC software version is presented also. GUI

revision 0.16.5 can be executed with µC

software version 0.9.95. SCROLL display

opens after RESET by default.

Figure 13. Reset demo display.

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4.1 Resetting GUI and µC

SCA3000 DEMO KIT GUI software can be reinitialised by selecting the “Reset demo” display from

pull down menu, see Figure 13.

µC can be resetted by exiting from the GUI and then pressing the reset button (Figure 1) on USB

interface board.

4.2 Uninstalling the GUI and USB driver

The GUI software and the USB driver (FTDI Serial Converter Driver) can be removed from

Windows Control Panel Add/Remove Programs. Please notice that removing the FTDI Serial

Converter Driver (USB driver) may affect on functionality of some other programs (such as

SCP1000 demo kit GUI).

5 Advanced data logging

Acceleration data can be saved from GUI software by pressing the “Save to file” button (Figure 2).

Data can be logged also by using the Windows HyperTerminal software and macro language that

is used to control the µC of the SCA3000 DEMO KIT.

Please notice that GUI software and Windows HyperTerminal software can not be open at the

same time. Follow the steps below to start the data log ging:

1. Connect SCA3000 DEMO KIT with USB cable to PC

2. Open GUI software to see the correct COM port number (SETUP displ ay, see Figure 12).

3. Close the GUI software.

4. Open Windows HyperTerminal software from CD-ROM:

− “SCA3000_demo_HyperTerminal_connection.ht”, or

− see detailed serial communication settings from Table 2.

5. Press demo reset button (see Figure 1). SCA3000 DEMO KIT sends an info text to

HyperTerminal (see Figure 14). If the HyperTerminal software is unable to connect the

SCA3000 DEMO KIT or the info text does not appear,

- Press

disconnect

- change the COM port number to correct from port properties ,

- press

connect ,

- press reset button on SCA3000 DEMO KIT.

until info text appears to HyperTerminal screen (see Figure 14).

6. After the info text appears on HyperTerminal, send text file “SCA3000_data_logger.txt”

from CD-ROM (“Transfer” pull do wn menu → “Send Text File…” → browse for

SCA3000_data_logger_macro.txt)

7. The text file is actually a macro that runs in an endless loop. The macro sends 3-axis

acceleration data in hex format to HyperTerminal (see Figure 15). Example of data format:

0x1ef0,0x0130,0x01f0,Z-Y-X

where “0x” indicates for hex format, and “Z-Y-X” the axis order. The Z-axis hex output is

1EF0, which is ‘0001 1110 1111 0000’ in binary format.

8. The data can be stored by capturing the data in to file:

“Transfer” pull down menu → “Capture Text…” → save captured data into wanted file and

folder.

9. Data capturing can be stopped from:

“Transfer” pull down menu → “Capture Text…” → “Stop”

Macro language is used to control the SCA3000 DEMO KIT. It can be also used to configure the

SCA3000 sensor. For more detailed information of macro language, please refer to “SCA3000

DEMO KIT macro language description 8259200”.

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If the pre-configured HyperTerminal connection is not available (the CD-ROM), the HyperTerminal

connection can be opened also from:

→ Start → Programs → Acce ssories → Communicati ons → HyperTermin al

The communication settings are presented in Table 2 below

Table 2. SCA3000 DEMO KIT serial communication settings.

Connection properties

2. Connect

1. Select COM port

Figure 14. Windows HyperTerminal with SCA3000 demo info text.

Parameter Value

Bits per second 230400

Data bits 8

Parity None

Stop bits 1

Flow control None

The correct COM port number depends on the PC and used USB port.

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Figure 15. SCA3000 demo output during data logging.

6 SCA3000 current consumption measurement with DEMO KIT

The current consumption of the SCA3000 sensor can be calculated by measuring the voltage drop

over the resistor R34 (470 Ω, 1% tolerance). Voltage drop can be measured from test points TP5

and TP6, see DEMO KIT USB interface board circuit diagram in Figure 18 (PCB design

VTI 29393 rev B0).

The offset current consumption of the DEMO KIT hardware depends on used serial communication

(SPI vs. I2C). The offset current consumption according to serial communication type is presented

in Table 3 below.

Table 3. Offset current consumption of the SCA3000 DEMO KIT HW.

Serial interface Offset current consumption

SPI ~950 µA (Voffset = 444 mV)

I2C ~20 0 µA (Voffset = 94 mV)

The offset current consumption can also be measured by measuring the voltage drop over the

resistor R34 (TP5 and TP6, see Figure 18) when SCA3000 PWB is not connected to USB interface

board.

SCA3000 current consumption can be calculated

470 ⎟

⎟

⎠

⎞

⎜

⎝

⎛

Ω

−

offsetdrop

Idd

(1)

where Vdrop is the measured voltage drop in [V] (from TP5 to TP6, see Figure 18), Voffset is the

measured offset current consumption (from TP5 to TP6, see Figure 18), alternatively the values

from Table 3 can be used. Idd is the SCA3000 current consumption in [A].

The difference in offset current consumption is due the pull up resistor in SCK/SCL line (R2 in

Figure 17). When using SPI-bus, the µC software drives the SCK/SCL line low when there is no

communication, which results in increase in DEMO KIT offset current consumption (current through

resistor R2 in Figure 17 from DVDD to GND). When I2C is used, the µC releases the SCK/SCL line

when there is no communication.

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7 USB interface board circuit diagram

SCA3000 demo USB interface board circuit diagram is presented in following pages.

Figure 16. SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board circuit diagram (sheet USB).

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Figure 17. SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board circuit diag ram (sheet µC).

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Figure 18. SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board circuit diagram (sheet power).

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8 USB interface board PWB layout

SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board PWB layout and silkscreen is pre se nted below.

Figure 19. SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board PWB layout.

Figure 20. SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board silkscree n.

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9 Troubleshooting

Due to many PC environments, the interoperability can be limited. The SCA3000 DEMO KIT has

been tested with DELL laptops (Latitude D600, D610, D410) and desktop PCs with Win2000 and

WinXP operating system. If the SCA3000 DEMO KIT does not work properly or it’s operation is

limited, the following items may help to sort the problems out:

• Stop the GUI software, press the reset button program on demo USB interface board (see

Figure 1), re-start the GUI again.

• The wait time in data transfer can be in increased on “SETUP” display (GUI software pull

down menu, see Figure 12).

• SCA3000 demo may not work properly if your PC has multiple USB serial ports installed.

Please remove all other USB serial port devices (including SCP1000 demo).

• Close Windows HyperTerminal software, if you have used it.

• Check that USB driver LATENCY TIMER parameter is 5ms. Plug the demo USB cable in

to PC and follow the steps (and screen captures) below:

1. Open control panel and select “SYSTEM”

2. Select “DEVICE MANAGER” from “HARDWARE” tab

3. Select “USB SERIAL PORT” from the list, right mouse click and select

“PROPERTIES"

4. Select “ADVANVED” from the USB Serial port Properties

5. Set the “LATENCY TIMER” to 5 ms (the 16ms default value is too slo w for SCA3000

DEMO KIT).

6. Press “OK” to all windows.

7. Restart the GUI software.

8. NOTICE! If the SCP1000 USB demo does not work properly with this 5 ms latency

timer value, the value needs to be changed back to 16 ms.

Start → Settin

s → Control

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9.1 Known Issues

9.1.1 Floating SCA3000 CLK-pin

With MCU software version 0.9.95 the CLK-pin of SCA3000 (pin #4) is configured to floating

instead of GND. SCA3000 will operate normally, but floating the CLK-pin may cause bigger current

consumption values for SCA3000 than normally. If such thing is noticed, the CLK line (marked also

on the silkscreen of the USB interface card) can be grounded.

This feature is fixed with MCU software version 0.9.95-r1.

9.1.2 Changing the serial bus type

The MCU needs to be reset (by pressing the reset button, see Figure 1) when changing between

the two available serial bus types (SPI & I2C). This thing can happen when user changes the used

SCA3000 component type.

9.1.3 Interference from USB communication

Capacitor C22 (Figure 16) connects the USB cable connector body to the GND net of the USB

interface board. The capacitor value is updated from 470 pF to 100 nF in order to decrease the

interferences in USB supply voltage (USB_VCC net in Figure 16). USB serial communication

causes the interference in to the supply voltage provided by USB port.

The value of the capacitor C22 is 100 nF in the SCA3000 DEMO KITs that have been assembled

since end of June 2006.

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10 Document Revision History

Version Date Change Description

0.06 19.04.2006 Updated:

- document template,

minor language corrections

0.07 12.05.2006 Updated:

- USB interface board updated (VTI29393B0), minor changes

Current consumption measurement (section 6)

0.08 15.06.2006 GUI software version updated from version 0.16.4 to version 1.0 (visual update)

Section "9.1 Known issues" added

0.09 28.06.2006 Updated:

- Section "9.1 Known issues",

Contact information

0.10 13.09.2006 GUI software version updated from 1.0 to 1.1. GUI sw ver 1.1 supports also SCA3000-E04

sensors

0.11 30.03.2007 GUI software version updated from 1.1 to 1.3. GUI sw ver 1.3 supports also SCA3000-E05 and

SCA3000-L01 sensors. 8-bit resolution presentation added.

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