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Release Notes for STM324x9I_EVAL Applications

Copyright 2017 STMicroelectronics

 

Update History

V1.7.0 / 23-February-2018

Main Changes

  • Add STemWin applications:
    • STemWin_acceleration
    • STemWin_animation
    • STemWin_fonts
    • STemWin_memory_device

V1.6.1 / 29-December-2017

Main Changes

  • Update stm32f4xx_hal_conf.h files to add support to HAL CAN Legacy Module.

V1.6.0 / 06-October-2017

Main Changes

  • Remove DATE and VERSION from the header of all the files.
  • Fix compilation issues with Linux
  • Remove support of TrueSTUDIO toolchain
  • Update applications based on FatFS stack to use new fatfs release 0.12c
  • Add new FreeRTOS application : FreeRTOS_MPU project
  • Upgrade STemWin applications from 5.32 to 5.40
  • Update DFU projects to fix wrong mask value : Update mask depending on SRAM size
  • Update USB Host projects to to use the FATFS_LinkDriver API to link the USB disk to fatfs
  • Update applications using SD : Update SD_initialize() API to initialize SD card before checking the SD status
  • Update to integrate PDM2PCM lib V3.0.0
  • Update encode.c under LibJPEG_Encoding application : BMP header is not always 54 bytes
  • Update LwIP_IAP applications to fix a bug in httpserver protocol

V1.5.0 / 17-February-2017

Main Changes

  • General applications projects update to be aligned with new HAL SD and BSP Drivers implementation
  • Update applications projects to support latest version of FatFS, LibJPEG and LwIP middleware
  • Add new applications SSL_Server and SSL_Client for mbedTLS middleware 
  • Remove the PolarSSL applications: no more supported within the STM32Cube_FW_F4 and replaced by mbedTLS applications
  • Update Display and StemWin Applications to use __HAL_LTDC_RELOAD_CONFIG() macro instead of   __HAL_LTDC_IMMEDIATE_CONFIG() macro
  • Update StemWin_SampleDemo application to remove unused STemWin demonstration modules
  • Update overall examples to add the support of the external memories in system_stm32f4xx.c files

V1.4.6 / 04-November-2016

Main Changes

  • Update system_stm32f4xx.c file in all projects to be aligned with latest version of CMSIS STM32F4xx device implementation

V1.4.5 / 03-June-2016

Main Changes

  • Update applications related to STemWin library to support STemWin 5.32 version
  • Update GUIDEMO_RadialMenu.c to support all toolchains

V1.4.4 / 06-May-2016

Main Changes

  • Fix memory management issue in LwIP TCP echoserver application
  • Update LwIP and PolarSSL applications to use the latest lwIP version
  • Update applications using DMA2D peripheral with new color definition
  • Add new define USE_SPI_CRC in stm32f4xx_hal_conf.h file for code cleanup when the CRC calculation is disabled
  • Update applications using FreeRTOS to use TIM HW as time base source
  • Enhance state machine of Audio_playback_and_record application
  • usbh_conf.c
    • Remove adding delay in the HAL_HCD_Connect_Callback()
  • Fix encoded JPEG file color and orientation for LibJPEG_Encoding application

V1.4.3 / 29-January-2016

     
      Main Changes
  • stm32f4xx_hal_conf.h
    • Adjust the HSE Start-up Timeout value: 100ms instead of 5s
    • Add new define for the LSE start-up Timeout: LSE_STARTUP_TIMEOUT

  • USB_HOST\MSC_Standalone

    • Update to avoid a misbehavior of reading flash disk contents

  • USB_HOST\HID_Standalone
    • Correct a misbehavior of the backspace key

V1.4.2 / 13-November-2015

Main Changes

  • system_stm32f4xx.c update to allow SDRAM & SRAM config at the same time
  • Add 2 new applications: EEPROM_Emulation and IAP
  • Fix Copy rectangle function implementation in all projects using STemWin library

V1.4.1 / 09-October-2015

Main Changes

  • Update SW4STM32 projects
    • Fix in accordance with latest version of SW4STM32 toolchain
  • Enhancements on the LTDC_AnimatedPictureFromSDCard application
    • LCD pixel clock configured at 18MHz
  • Enhancements on the LTDC_STemWin application
    • Update PCLK from 16MHz to 25.16MHz
  • Enhancements on the LTDC_Paint application
    • Update LTDC_Paint application to use only one layer
    • Increase delay after BSP_TS_GetState(&State) in order to return reliably the TS state.

V1.4.0 / 14-August-2015

Main Changes

  • Update to use latest version of FreeRTOS, FatFs, STemWin and USB Libraries
  • Optimize Heap size in FreeRTOS based applications

V1.3.0 / 01-July-2015

Main Changes

  • Upate Audio_playback_and_record, LTDC_Paint, STemWin_HelloWorld and STemWin_SampleDemo applications to use new exc7200 touch controller

V1.2.2 / 25-May-2015

Main Changes

  • LwIP and PolarSSL Applications: fix issue of handling Ethernet Rx DMA descriptors (the application don't give the Rx descriptors ownership to DMA if it fails to allocate memory for a received packet)
  • Fix compile issue in some projects (3 in total), mainly due to bad project settings:
    • /Audio/Audio_playback_and_record/TrueSTUDIO & /MDK-ARM
    • /FatFs/FatFs_USBDisk_MultipleAccess_RTOS/TrueSTUDIO

V1.2.1 / 13-March-2015

Main Changes

  • All projects updated following changes in latest version of HAL and Middlewares
  • Miscellaneous enhancements
  • Validation using latest toolchains version: EWARM v7.30 and TrueSTUDIO v5.1.1

Known Limitations

  • USB_Device\AUDIO_Standalone
    • MDK-ARM and TrueSTUDIO projects are provided with optimization set to “None”, to avoid audio glitch when USB cable is disconnected
  • The following issues are detected when using EWARM V7.30, however they are not present when using EWARM V7.10, they will be fixed in next release:
    • Display/LTDC_AnimatedPictureFromSDCard and LTDC_PicturesFromSDCard applications: they work correctly with all optimization levels except High-Size one, where the parse of SD card is failing
  • Display\LTDC_Paint
    • Works only with MB1063 LCD display, not functional with MB1046
  • FatFs\FatFs_USBDisk_MultipleAccess_RTOS
    • Robustness to be improved, the application may not work correctly after several board reset

V1.2.0 / 26-December-2014

Main Changes

  • All projects updated following changes in latest version of HAL and Middlewares
  • Miscellaneous enhancements
  • PolarSSL applications and LwIP applications based on FreeRTOS: fix Ethernet reception deadlock issue, it was due to unavailable RX descriptors owned by DMA caused when receiving many frames with the same interrupt
  • Relocate all media files (wav, video, images..) under \Utilities\Media folder
  • Audio_playback_and_record: several enhancements
    • Reorganize the example to make the audio player and recorder independent
    • Change the recorder module by using a structured buffer structure object
    • Optimize file system access method
  • USB_Host projects: remove vbus_sensing_enable from USBH_LL_Init()
  • LTDC_AnimatedPictureFromUSB: improve USB key management
  • LTDC_Paint: change storage to USB key instead of uSD
  • Force initialization of all PPP Init structure's field before calling HAL_PPP_Init() API
  • Fix the known limitations in previous V1.1.0 release
    • PolarSSL applications: SSL_Server and SSL_Client doesn’t work correctly with MDK-ARM v5.10
    • LwIP applications: LwIP_IAP and LwIP_TFTP_Server doesn’t work correctly with EWARM v7.10
  • Validation using latest toolchains version: EWARM v7.30 and TrueSTUDIO v5.1.1

Known Limitations

  • USB_Device\AUDIO_Standalone application
    • MDK-ARM and TrueSTUDIO projects are provided with optimization set to “None”, to avoid audio glitch when USB cable is disconnected
  • The following issues are detected when using EWARM V7.30, however they are not present when using EWARM V7.10, they will be fixed in next release:
    • Display/LTDC_AnimatedPictureFromSDCard and LTDC_PicturesFromSDCard applications: they work correctly with all optimization levels except High-Size one, where the parse of SD card is failing

V1.1.0 / 26-June-2014

Main Changes

  • Common update for all Applications
    • Update EWARM startup file for all projects to cope with compiler enhancement of the V7.x version
    • Update “stm32f4xx_hal_conf.h” to be in line with HAL V1.1.0: add new defines LSI_VALUE, LSE_VALUE and TICK_INT_PRIORITY
    • Update “stm32f4xx_it.c” : add the include of “main.h” before the “stm32f4xx_it.h”, in order to provide access to CMSIS device file via “stm32f4xx_hal.h”
    • Miscellaneous source code comments update
  • Add reference to STM32Cube User Manuals in all readme.txt files:
    • UM1743 STM32CubeF4 Demonstration
    • UM1721 Developing Applications on STM32Cube with FatFs
    • UM1722 Developing Applications on STM32Cube with RTOS
    • UM1734 STM32Cube USB Device library
    • UM1720 STM32Cube USB Host library
    • UM1723 STM32Cube PolarSSL example
    • UM1709 STM32Cube Ethernet IAP example
    • UM1713 STM32Cube interfacing with LwIP and examples
  • All FreeRTOS based applications: update SysTick_Handler() ISR function in “stm32f4xx_it.c” and update the value of INCLUDE_xTaskGetSchedulerState to 1 in “FreeRTOSConfig.h”.  This update is needed to avoid conflict between the HAL action on the SysTick when the FreeRTOS is used; we need to ensure that FreeRTOS scheduler has started before incrementing the tick. Below the updated applications:
    •  FatFs\FatFs_RAMDisk_RTOS
    • FatFs\FatFs_USBDisk_MultipleAccess_RTOS 
    •  FatFs\FatFs_USBDisk_RTOS
    • FatFs\FatFs_uSD_RTOS 
    • FreeRTOS\FreeRTOS_LowPower
    • FreeRTOS\FreeRTOS_Mutexes
    •  FreeRTOS\FreeRTOS_Queues
    • FreeRTOS\FreeRTOS_Semaphore
    • FreeRTOS_SemaphoreFromISR
    • FreeRTOS\FreeRTOS_ThreadCreation
    •  FreeRTOS\FreeRTOS_Timers
    •  LwIP\LwIP_HTTP_Server_Netconn_RTOS
    • LwIP\LwIP_HTTP_Server_Socket_RTOS
    • LwIP\LwIP_UDPTCP_Echo_Server_Netconn_RTOS
    • PolarSSL\SSL_Client
    • PolarSSL\SSL_Server
    • USB_Host\HID_RTOS
    •  USB_Host\MSC_RTOS
  • Add LibJPEG applications for JPEG images decoding and encoding
    • LibJPEG\LibJPEG_Decoding
    • LibJPEG\LibJPEG_Encoding
  • LwIP applications Update
    • Add TrueSTUDIO workspaces for the following applications:
      •  LwIP_HTTP_Server_Netconn_RTOS
      •  LwIP_HTTP_Server_Socket_RTOS
      •  LwIP_IAP
    • Remove ARP timer initialization and callback from “ethernetif.c” file for the following applications using RTOS
      • LwIP_HTTP_Server_Netconn_RTOS 
      • LwIP_HTTP_Server_Socket_RTOS
      • LwIP_UDPTCP_Echo_Server_Netconn_RTOS
    • Add the management of timeout based on systick for polling process in “ethernetif.c” file for all LwIP applications
  • PolarSSL applications Update
    • Add the management of timeout based on systick for polling process in “ethernetif.c” file for all PolarSSL applications
  • STemWin applications Update
    • Update all STemWin applications following the use of new version V5.24b (update path and files names and miscellaneous update in the application sources)
    • Update touch process in all applications, use different timer instead of SysTick for the BSP_Background task
  • USB_HOST applications Update 
    • Update the value of stack and heap in all projects
    • Following latest update in USB Host Library V3.1.0; in all RTOS based application, “usbh_conf.h” file has been added as follows:

#if (USBH_USE_OS == 1)
  #include "cmsis_os.h"
  #define USBH_PROCESS_PRIO osPriorityNormal
  #define USBH_PROCESS_STACK_SIZE (8 * configMINIMAL_STACK_SIZE)
#endif

    • MTP_Standalone application  
      • Update the readme to clarify the version of supported OS and how to power up the board/smartphone for correct operation 
    • MSC_RTOS application  
      •  In “menu.c” file: increase the stack size of "Menu_Thread" task to fix hardfault issue detected w/ TrueSTUDIO
    • HID_Standalone application 
      • In “usbd_conf.c” file: add a delay in connection callback to avoid connection issue when using old mouse
  • USB_DEVICE applications Update 
    • Update the value of stack and heap in all projects
    • Following latest change in HAL V1.1.0, add “stm32f4xx_hal_pcd_ex.c” file in the files list of all projects
    • Update done in all applications
      • All the processes using PCD handle are moved to” usbd_conf.c”
      • Align with latest change in HAL Delay management: remove SysTick IT priority setting and set instead TICK_INT_PRIORITY to 0 in “stm32f4xx_hal_conf.h”
      • Use device unique number to compute the USB serial number string descriptor
      • In “main.c” file : when calling USBD_RegisterClass() function use USBD_XXX_CLASS instead &USBD_XXX (XXX refer to the name of Class)
    • CustomHID_Standalone application
      • Update following change done in USB Device Library V2.1.0
      • Add Custom HID interface file to handle BSP and user processes
      • Remove Custom HID hardware configuration from” main.c” file and handle it in the interface file
    • HID_Standalone application
      • Move EXTI callback function to “usbd_conf.c” file
      • In MspInit() function; remove wakeup line configuration, since it’s done in latest version of HAL V1.1.0 drivers

Known Limitations

  • PolarSSL applications
    • SSL_Server and SSL_Client doesn’t work correctly with MDK-ARM v5.10, the provided projects works only with MDK-ARM v4.7
  • LwIP applications
    • LwIP_IAP and LwIP_TFTP_Server doesn’t work correctly with EWARM v7.10, the provided projects works only with EWARM v6.7
  • USB_Device\AUDIO_Standalone application
    • MDK-ARM and TrueSTUDIO projects are provided with optimization set to “None”, to avoid audio glitch when USB cable is disconnected

V1.0.1 / 26-February-2014

Main Changes

  • All applications using uSD: update system clock to 175 MHz (instead of 180 MHz) to have 50 MHz on PLL_Q output, to ensure that the clock provided by the SDIO peripheral to the uSD card can't exceed 25 MHz (25MHz is the maximum frequency in standard speed mode)
  • All STemWin applications: remove PA8 and PC6 configurations from HAL_LTDC_MspInit() into LCDConf files (these pins are no more used  in STM324x9I-EVAL RevB to control the LCD)
  • All LwIP and PolarSSL applications, readme.txt: add reference to the SW tools needed to run each application
  • USB_Device\CustomHID_Standalone: disable USB HS DMA mode
  • USB_Host\MTP_Standalone: add project for MDK-ARM toolchain

V1.0.0 / 18-February-2014

Main Changes

  • First official release

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