STemWin528 + STM32F7-discovery, GUI_MEMDEV_CreateFixed

baev_al · February 3, 2016 at 6:41 PM

Hello.
I'm testing MEMDEV_AttitudeIndicator.c
I see only part of the image.
The problem starts in the _CreateScale function.
GUI_MEMDEV_CreateFixed returnes zero.
Can you please help me to achieve the handler.
Thank you.

SEGGER - Jörg · February 9, 2016 at 9:06 AM

Hello,

if GUI_MEMDEV_CreateFixed() returns with zero there is not enough memory available for the memory device. Please increase the size of the memory block assigned to emWin in GUI_X_Config().

Regards, Jörg

baev_al · February 11, 2016 at 9:40 PM

Hello, Jörg.
Thank you for the answer.
When I increase the memory to required minimum (#define GUI_NUMBYTES (1024) * 700) I receive the error (IAR EWARM):
unable to allocate space for sections/blocks with a total estimated minimum size of 0xafb74 bytes (max align 0x8) in <[0x20000000-0x2004ffff]> (total uncommitted space 0x50000).
The board has external SDRAM. Is it possible to include it for the task? I see that the part of the SDRAM is used:
#define LCD_LAYER0_FRAME_BUFFER ((int)0xC0200000)
#define LCD_LAYER1_FRAME_BUFFER ((int)0xC0400000)
RAM memory organization is a little bit messy for me...

SEGGER - Schoenen · February 12, 2016 at 9:46 AM

Hi,

I have attached some files to show what is neccessary to give emWin more memory. Since I'm not how big the SDRAM is I disabled the second layer and used as GUI RAM.

GUI_Conf.c:
I just added a @ "GUI_RAM" behind aMemory[] to tell the linker where to put that array. In this case into section GUI_RAM

LCDConf.c:
Of course, now it is not possible to enable the second layer because it would overwrite the GUI RAM.

stm32f746xx_flash.icf:
I have defined a start and end address for a SDRAM region, defined the SDRAM region and placed the GUI_RAM section into SDRAM region.

Now it should be possible to increase the memory up to 2MB

Regards,
Sven

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