DIGI Isolator click

DIGI Isolator Click is a compact add-on board that provides electrical isolation and signal conditioning for the serial peripheral interface and a UART interface. This board features two DCL540C01, high-speed, quad-channel digital isolators from Toshiba Semiconductor. Depending on the usage, this CMOS isolator can achieve data rates of up to 150Mbps, while withstanding up to 5kVrms voltage. DIGI Isolator Click is designed to isolate two additional IO pins besides SPI and UART interfaces.

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Click library

• Author : Nenad Filipovic
• Date : May 2023.
• Type : UART/SPI/ADC type

Software Support

We provide a library for the DIGI Isolator Click as well as a demo application (example), developed using MikroElektronika compilers. The demo can run on all the main MikroElektronika development boards.

Package can be downloaded/installed directly from NECTO Studio Package Manager(recommended way), downloaded from our LibStock™ or found on Mikroe github account.

Library Description

This library contains API for DIGI Isolator Click driver.

Standard key functions :

• digiisolator_cfg_setup Config Object Initialization function.

  void digiisolator_cfg_setup ( digiisolator_cfg_t *cfg );

• digiisolator_init Initialization function.

  err_t digiisolator_init ( digiisolator_t *ctx, digiisolator_cfg_t *cfg );

Example key functions :

• digiisolator_spi_transfer DIGI Isolator SPI transfer function.

  err_t digiisolator_spi_transfer ( digiisolator_t *ctx, uint8_t *data_in, uint8_t *data_out, uint8_t len );

• digiisolator_uart_write DIGI Isolator UART data writing function.

  err_t digiisolator_uart_write ( digiisolator_t *ctx, char *data_in, uint16_t len );

• digiisolator_get_d1_pin_voltage DIGI Isolator read D1 pin voltage level function.

  err_t digiisolator_get_d1_pin_voltage ( digiisolator_t *ctx, float *data_out );

Example Description

This example demonstrates the use of the DIGI Isolator click board by reading and writing data by using SPI and UART serial interface and reading results of AD conversion.

The demo application is composed of two sections :

Application Init

Initialization of SPI, UART and ADC module and log UART.

void application_init ( void )
{
    log_cfg_t log_cfg;  /**< Logger config object. */
    digiisolator_cfg_t digiisolator_cfg;  /**< Click config object. */

    /** 
     * Logger initialization.
     * Default baud rate: 115200
     * Default log level: LOG_LEVEL_DEBUG
     * @note If USB_UART_RX and USB_UART_TX 
     * are defined as HAL_PIN_NC, you will 
     * need to define them manually for log to work. 
     * See @b LOG_MAP_USB_UART macro definition for detailed explanation.
     */
    LOG_MAP_USB_UART( log_cfg );
    log_init( &logger, &log_cfg );
    log_info( &logger, " Application Init " );

    // Click initialization.
    digiisolator_cfg_setup( &digiisolator_cfg );
    DIGIISOLATOR_MAP_MIKROBUS( digiisolator_cfg, MIKROBUS_1 );
    if ( SPI_MASTER_ERROR == digiisolator_init( &digiisolator, &digiisolator_cfg ) )
    {
        log_error( &logger, " Communication init." );
        for ( ; ; );
    }

    log_info( &logger, " Application Task " );
    log_printf( &logger, " -----------------------\r\n" );
    Delay_ms ( 100 );
}

Application Task

At the start, the demo application reads and checks the manufacturer ID and device ID of the connected Flash 11 click board by using SPI serial interface. After that, sends a "MikroE" message, reads the received data, and parses it by using UART serial interface in loopback mode. And finally, the demo app reads the results of the AD conversion of the D1 (AN) pin. Results are being sent to the UART Terminal, where you can track their changes.

void application_task ( void )
{
    static uint8_t cmd_get_id[ 6 ] = { FLASH11_CMD_GET_ID };
    static uint8_t read_id[ 6 ] = { 0 };
    static char app_buf[ PROCESS_BUFFER_SIZE ] = { 0 };
    static float voltage = 0;

    if ( DIGIISOLATOR_OK == digiisolator_spi_transfer( &digiisolator, &cmd_get_id[ 0 ], &read_id[ 0 ], 6 ) )
    {
        if ( ( FLASH11_MANUFACTURER_ID == read_id[ 4 ] ) && ( FLASH11_DEVICE_ID == read_id[ 5 ] ) )
        {
            log_printf( &logger, " SPI\r\n" );
            log_printf( &logger, " Manufacturer ID: 0x%.2X\r\n", ( uint16_t ) read_id[ 4 ] );
            log_printf( &logger, " Device ID: 0x%.2X    \r\n", ( uint16_t ) read_id[ 5 ] );
            log_printf( &logger, " -----------------------\r\n" );
            Delay_ms ( 1000 );
            Delay_ms ( 1000 );
        }
    }

    if ( 0 < digiisolator_uart_write( &digiisolator, DEMO_MESSAGE, strlen( DEMO_MESSAGE ) ) )
    {
        if ( 0 < digiisolator_uart_read( &digiisolator, app_buf, strlen( DEMO_MESSAGE ) ) )
        {
            log_printf( &logger, " UART\r\n" );
            log_printf( &logger, "%s", app_buf );
            memset( app_buf, 0, PROCESS_BUFFER_SIZE );
            log_printf( &logger, " -----------------------\r\n" );
            Delay_ms ( 1000 );
            Delay_ms ( 1000 );
        }
    }

    if ( DIGIISOLATOR_OK == digiisolator_get_d1_pin_voltage ( &digiisolator, &voltage ) ) 
    {
        log_printf( &logger, " ADC\r\n" );
        log_printf( &logger, " Voltage : %.3f[V]\r\n", voltage );
        log_printf( &logger, " -----------------------\r\n" );
        Delay_ms ( 1000 );
        Delay_ms ( 1000 );
    }
}

The full application code, and ready to use projects can be installed directly from NECTO Studio Package Manager(recommended way), downloaded from our LibStock™ or found on Mikroe github account.

Other Mikroe Libraries used in the example:

• MikroSDK.Board
• MikroSDK.Log
• Click.DIGIIsolator

Additional notes and informations

Depending on the development board you are using, you may need USB UART click, USB UART 2 Click or RS232 Click to connect to your PC, for development systems with no UART to USB interface available on the board. UART terminal is available in all MikroElektronika compilers.