It has been a long time since my last blog post. I apologize for the late update. I had been busy with my internship task and was unable to update on time. Anyway, I will try to catch up on progress as much as possible.

In the past few weeks, I have tested on the sponsored shields using the example codes in Arduino IDE to have a rough idea on how do they work, migrate the working environment Arduino IDE to DAVE because DAVE supports FreeRTOS, and tried to control the Garbage Collector using a wireless solution.

In this blog post, I will first talk about some basic interactions with the shields I have tried out with the example codes in Arduino IDE.

To start with it, the shields provided can be separated into 2 groups:

The Shields that are bigger in size: ( DC Motor Control Sheild with TLE94112, and Profet+2 12v Shield )

and the Shield2Go which are smaller in size: ( DPS368 Pressure Shield2Go, and TLV493D 3DSense Shield2Go )

I will go through one shield from each group in this blog post.

The Shields that are larger in size can be directly stacked on the XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit or the XMC4200 Platform2GO just like the pictures below: (I'm using DC Motor Control Sheild with TLE94112 and XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit in this example)

After that, just clone the corresponding example code from https://github.com/Infineon and upload it to XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit or the XMC4200 Platform2GO the using Arduino IDE and connect the hardware according to the code that you are running and you are good to go.

Video of testing DC Motor Control Sheild with TLE94112 using example code in Arduino IDE:

For the Shield2Go which are smaller in size, you can connect it directly to the 2Go interface in XMC4200 Platform2GO:

You can just connect the required pins to the corresponding pins on XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit.

For my case, since I will be using I2C protocol for the serial communication between the DPS368 Pressure Shield2Go and XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit, I will be just connecting SDA, SCL for the I2C communication as well as the 3V3, and GND for power supply.

Video of testing DPS368 Pressure Shield2Go:

That's all for this blog post. In the next blog post, I will talk about how I control the DC Motor Control Sheild with TLE94112 using XMC4700 Relax Lite Kit programmed by DAVE. If I got the time, I might add in FreeRTOS as well.

See you next blog.