
NXP Semiconductors
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PCF85063TP-ARD evaluation board
This section describes the GUI application and how the user can control the
PCF85063TP-ARD daughter board from the graphical interface. First, install the GUI
package and software on the PC (Windows 10). For more details, see
.
Once installation is complete, assure that one of the mentioned three EVKs with
attached PCF85063TP-ARD daughter board is connected to PC and powered-on. Open
NXP_GUI(PCF85063TP,PCF85263ATL,PCF85063A) GUI application. An interface will
.
The GUI application starts with
Settings
tab (marked with red arrow). The left side of the
window displays
Board settings
. The section provides the following settings:
• Select EVK:
displays the list of EVKs. Selecting a wrong EVK board causes the
connection to fail and a pop-up window with the message:
“Unable to Connect with
EVK”
appears on the screen.
• Select COM port:
displays the port selected for communication. The port is
automatically selected by the system (in the picture is COM 3).
• Select Board:
allows the user to select the correct daughter board (the application
can support three different boards). In
, the selected board is PCF85063TP.
Selecting a wrong daughter board causes the connection to fail and a pop-up window
with the message:
“Unable to Connect with Daughter Card”
appears on the screen.
In the right side of the window is located
Device Setting
section. In this section a single
setting is available,
I2C Frequency
, which sets the I
2
C-bus clock to 100kHz or 400kHz.
Assuming the correct parameters are chosen, clicking the
Connect
button establishes
the connection with the EVK. In the bottom side of the GUI window a status bar shows in
real time the status regarding connection between PC and the EVK.
Figure 9. Graphical interface at start-up (“Settings” tab activated by default)
Clicking on
Time
tab, a new window appears (see
and calendar functions of the RTC are available. For the calendar section, the following
internal registers of PCF85063TP can be read or written:
Weekday
,
Day
,
Month
, and
Year
. For the time section the user can set or read:
Hour
,
Minute
, and
Second
.
The
Write
button which set the RTC registry with the new values by the user from the
GUI, while the
Read
button brings back the data from the RTC to the GUI. The third
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