Toshiba TOPAS900 user manual Application Board

Users Manual TOPAS900 Flash V2.0

7.Application Board

To demonstrate how useful microcontrollers can be for industrial solutions and in common applications a hardware extension board – the Application Board – has been developed. The picture below shows the Application Board.

Figure 21 : The Application Board

With its hardware components and their corresponding software drivers a lot of different applications can be developed very quickly - without the common overhead of driver development. The software developer can concentrate on developing algorithms for solving specific problems instead of spending time in things that have been developed many times before.

The Application Board package comes with a set of software modules to ensure short development cycles and to give enough software samples that demonstrate the way of developing embedded systems with Toshiba microcontrollers.

The software modules are:

∙4-bit bi-directional LCD-Panel driver

∙I²C driver (I²C master protocol)

∙LM 75 temperature driver

∙SPI bus driver

∙ST95040 serial EEPROM driver

∙keyboard matrix input driver

∙A/D conversion driver

∙serial RS232 line driver

For all software modules the hardware components are available on the board and can be tested directly.

Additionally there are some applications that uses the software modules to show how more complex applications are to be developed. One of these examples is a digital