Hardware requirements

  • Micro USB cable

  • MIMXRT1180-EVK board

  • J-Link Debug Probe

  • 5V power supply

  • Personal Computer

  • RS-485 adapter board

Board settings

This example requires connecting between FlexIO2 pins and RS-485 adapter board which is connected to the encoder.

  • FLEXIO_T_FORMAT_TX_PIN(J41-2) -> RX pin of RS-485

  • FLEXIO_T_FORMAT_RX_PIN(J41-4) -> TX pin of RS-485

  • FLEXIO_T_FORMAT_DR_PIN(J41-6) -> D/R pin of RS-485

  • 3.3V pin(J45-8) -> 3.3V pin of RS-485

  • GND pin(J45-12) -> GND pin of RS-485

  • 5.0V pin(J45-16) -> 5.0V pin of encoder

  • GND pin(J45-14) -> GND pin of encoder

  • A pin of RS-485 -> SD+ pin of encoder

  • B pin of RS-485 -> SD- pin of encoder

Prepare the Demo

  1. Connect 5V power supply and J-Link Debug Probe to the board, switch SW1 to power on the board.

  2. Connect a micro USB cable between the host PC and the J53 USB port on the target board.

  3. Open a serial terminal with the following settings:

    • 115200 baud rate

    • 8 data bits

    • No parity

    • One stop bit

    • No flow control

  4. Download the program to the target board.

  5. Either re-power up your board or launch the debugger in your IDE to begin running the example.

Running the demo

When the example runs successfully, you can see the similar information from the terminal as below.

Encoder T-format example
Encoder ID: 5946590
Multi-turn data: 64474, single-turn data: 147617
[0.10s] Encoder ID: 0x5ABCDE
         Multi-turn data: 64474, single-turn data: 147617
         Temperature: 45.000000
[0.20s] Encoder ID: 0x5ABCDE
         Multi-turn data: 64474, single-turn data: 147617
         Temperature: 44.000000