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SCA3000 DEMO KIT 

User Manual 

 

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 I

2

C interface. 

SCA3000 sensor is soldered 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 mode,  

normal measurement mode 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 cleared by user by pressing the 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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Summary of Contents for SCA3000 DEMO KIT

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Page 3: ...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 2...

Page 4: ...OM 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 ...

Page 5: ... 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 mode normal measurement mode 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...

Page 6: ...range 4 Resultant acceleration ON OFF 5 Save acceleration data in to text file 6 Freeze image start stop the scrolling window Page Up button also 7 Zero gravitation ON OFF 8 Open close the window extension 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 number 11 Averaging ON OFF number of samples ...

Page 7: ...p 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 d...

Page 8: ...ontains 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 sens...

Page 9: ...on 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 in...

Page 10: ...ged 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 ...

Page 11: ...perly 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...

Page 12: ...ailed 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 ...

Page 13: ...Programs Accessories Communications HyperTerminal 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 depend...

Page 14: ... 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 offset drop V V 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...

Page 15: ...ace 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 VTI Technologies Oy 14 21 www vti fi Doc Nr 8259300 11 Rev 0 11 ...

Page 16: ...SCA3000 DEMO KIT User Manual VTI Technologies Oy 15 21 www vti fi Doc Nr 8259300 11 Rev 0 11 Figure 17 SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board circuit diagram sheet µC ...

Page 17: ...SCA3000 DEMO KIT User Manual VTI Technologies Oy 16 21 www vti fi Doc Nr 8259300 11 Rev 0 11 Figure 18 SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board circuit diagram sheet power ...

Page 18: ... SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board PWB layout and silkscreen is presented below Figure 19 SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board PWB layout Figure 20 SCA3000 DEMO KIT USB interface board silkscreen VTI Technologies Oy 17 21 www vti fi Doc Nr 8259300 11 Rev 0 11 ...

Page 19: ...erial 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 li...

Page 20: ...SCA3000 DEMO KIT User Manual 4 3 5 VTI Technologies Oy 19 21 www vti fi Doc Nr 8259300 11 Rev 0 11 ...

Page 21: ...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 t...

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