29.05.2016, 22:19 by Mare

Testing of sensors with RS485 using PC without proper interface is not possible. Since RS232 interfaces are very rare, the interface should be hooked to USB. The interface between USB and RS485 can be soldered with one of the many FTDI interfaces with added RS485 driver, or bought as assembled module. There is always the third option. I made it from scratch.

I took smallest STM32F0 with USB and UART interface. The best thing with UART in the STM32F0 is that signal for driver enable is provided within hardware. The complete pinout of the microcontroller is:

The hardware part is easy. The complete PCB is one-sided. I kept it as minimalistic as possible. There are three active components: voltage regulator, microcontroller and RS485 transceiver. The complete schematic:

The PCB is single sided:

Here is complete altium project: USB-RS485

The documentation in PDF file: USB2RS485-doc

For all who want to produce the PCB with the toner transfer technology is here the PCB, mirrored and with 1:1 scale: USB2RS232-tonertransfer

And the most useful sheet of documentation for assembling:

After soldering it’s time to put the module to life:

The project, generated from the MX cube is almost all we need. There are few things to add:

retransmit bytes received from USB to UART

forward bytes received via UART to USB

add serial line coding interpretation and reflect it in the hardware UART

The code for sending bytes from UART to USB is within main endless loop:

if ( HAL_UART_Receive_IT ( & huart2 , & aRxBuffer , 1 ) == HAL_OK ) CDC_Transmit_FS ( & aRxBuffer , 1 ) if (HAL_UART_Receive_IT(&huart2, &aRxBuffer, 1) == HAL_OK) CDC_Transmit_FS(&aRxBuffer,1)

Code to send data from USB to UART is within CDC_Receive_FS() function:

static int8_t CDC_Receive_FS ( uint8_t * Buf , uint32_t * Len ) { /* USER CODE BEGIN 6 */ USBD_CDC_SetRxBuffer ( hUsbDevice_0 , & Buf [ 0 ] ) ; USBD_CDC_ReceivePacket ( hUsbDevice_0 ) ; HAL_UART_Transmit ( & huart2 , Buf , * Len , 100 ) ; return ( USBD_OK ) ; /* USER CODE END 6 */ } static int8_t CDC_Receive_FS (uint8_t* Buf, uint32_t *Len) { /* USER CODE BEGIN 6 */ USBD_CDC_SetRxBuffer(hUsbDevice_0, &Buf[0]); USBD_CDC_ReceivePacket(hUsbDevice_0); HAL_UART_Transmit(&huart2, Buf, *Len, 100); return (USBD_OK); /* USER CODE END 6 */ }

And finally, the code to set the UART line parameters are within USB CDC_Control_FS() function:

/*******************************************************************************/ /* Line Coding Structure */ /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Offset | Field | Size | Value | Description */ /* 0 | dwDTERate | 4 | Number |Data terminal rate, in bits per second*/ /* 4 | bCharFormat | 1 | Number | Stop bits */ /* 0 - 1 Stop bit */ /* 1 - 1.5 Stop bits */ /* 2 - 2 Stop bits */ /* 5 | bParityType | 1 | Number | Parity */ /* 0 - None */ /* 1 - Odd */ /* 2 - Even */ /* 3 - Mark */ /* 4 - Space */ /* 6 | bDataBits | 1 | Number Data bits (5, 6, 7, 8 or 16). */ /*******************************************************************************/ case CDC_SET_LINE_CODING : linecoding. bitrate = ( uint32_t ) ( pbuf [ 0 ] | ( pbuf [ 1 ] << 8 ) | ( pbuf [ 2 ] << 16 ) | ( pbuf [ 3 ] << 24 ) ) ; linecoding. format = pbuf [ 4 ] ; linecoding. paritytype = pbuf [ 5 ] ; linecoding. datatype = pbuf [ 6 ] ; huart2. Init . BaudRate = linecoding. bitrate ; switch ( linecoding. format ) { case 0 : huart2. Init . StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_1 ; break ; case 1 : huart2. Init . StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_1_5 ; break ; case 2 : huart2. Init . StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_2 ; break ; } switch ( linecoding. paritytype ) { case 0 : huart2. Init . Parity = UART_PARITY_NONE ; break ; case 1 : huart2. Init . Parity = UART_PARITY_ODD ; break ; case 2 : huart2. Init . Parity = UART_PARITY_EVEN ; break ; } //UART_WORDLENGTH_7B switch ( linecoding. datatype ) { case 7 : huart2. Init . WordLength = UART_WORDLENGTH_7B ; break ; case 8 : huart2. Init . WordLength = UART_WORDLENGTH_8B ; break ; } HAL_RS485Ex_Init ( & huart2 , UART_DE_POLARITY_HIGH , 0 , 0 ) ; break ; /*******************************************************************************/ /* Line Coding Structure */ /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /* Offset | Field | Size | Value | Description */ /* 0 | dwDTERate | 4 | Number |Data terminal rate, in bits per second*/ /* 4 | bCharFormat | 1 | Number | Stop bits */ /* 0 - 1 Stop bit */ /* 1 - 1.5 Stop bits */ /* 2 - 2 Stop bits */ /* 5 | bParityType | 1 | Number | Parity */ /* 0 - None */ /* 1 - Odd */ /* 2 - Even */ /* 3 - Mark */ /* 4 - Space */ /* 6 | bDataBits | 1 | Number Data bits (5, 6, 7, 8 or 16). */ /*******************************************************************************/ case CDC_SET_LINE_CODING: linecoding.bitrate = (uint32_t)(pbuf[0] | (pbuf[1] << 8) | (pbuf[2] << 16) | (pbuf[3] << 24)); linecoding.format = pbuf[4]; linecoding.paritytype = pbuf[5]; linecoding.datatype = pbuf[6]; huart2.Init.BaudRate = linecoding.bitrate; switch (linecoding.format) { case 0 : huart2.Init.StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_1; break; case 1 : huart2.Init.StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_1_5; break; case 2 : huart2.Init.StopBits = UART_STOPBITS_2; break; } switch (linecoding.paritytype) { case 0 : huart2.Init.Parity = UART_PARITY_NONE; break; case 1 : huart2.Init.Parity = UART_PARITY_ODD; break; case 2 : huart2.Init.Parity = UART_PARITY_EVEN; break; } //UART_WORDLENGTH_7B switch (linecoding.datatype) { case 7 : huart2.Init.WordLength = UART_WORDLENGTH_7B; break; case 8 : huart2.Init.WordLength = UART_WORDLENGTH_8B; break; } HAL_RS485Ex_Init(&huart2, UART_DE_POLARITY_HIGH, 0, 0); break;

The complete project is hosted on GitHub>>> https://github.com/s54mtb/USB2RS485

The driver for the USB/CDC device class can be downloaded from: http://www.st.com/content/st_com/en/products/development-tools/software-development-tools/stm32-software-development-tools/stm32-utilities/stsw-stm32102.html or local copy: VCP_V1.4.0_Setup

I will use this small module for testing sensors, which I have under development for my vineyard weather station: humidity, air pressure, temperature, wind, illumination, soil parameters, etc…

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