Question about Arduino shield compatability

Silly question concerning this" "You can use that on your Pioneer Kit; Download from here (be sure to download the latest version v1.2, scroll down to the bottom of this link) - http://www.cypress.com/?app=forum&id=2492&rID=75707"

Version 1.2 of what exactly?

Dave

Dave,

download the "community Component", i.e. a project created by a PSoC community member that contains the custom CharLCD component. This Component has had a couple revisions, the latest being v1.2 which was posted as an attachement later in that thread. It's the "CharLCDmpLib.cylib.zip" posted in the thread.

Look at these tutorial videos to learn how to import/export custom Components into your projects - http://video.cypress.com/video-library/search/import/

Hope that helps,

-Gagan

Ok, got it... watched the video and I now have the custom CharLCD component on the TopDesign.cysch page of a new project.  Thing is, the component (LCD_Char_1) doesn't show up in the available component panel on the right side of my MultiPortLCD.cydwr page.  I have no way of wiring the CustomLCD component to the chip.

What am I missing? Why doesn't the component appear as something to wire up?

Thank you for your time,

Dave

Dave,

you missed just a minor point - the imported Components are placed in the Component Catalog, but placed under a separate tab. In this case, the CharacterLCD(multi-port) is placed under the "Community" tab in the Catalog (see screenshot below).

This is done to differentitate offical Components from the Community-generated Components. The developer has the option of defining what tab to place their community component under.

No, I got that...  I started a new project, added the multi-Port to it and the component appeared just as you say.

I then dragged the multi-Port into the TopDesign.cysch, set a few custom characters and then saved the TopDesign.cysch.

Next I open the MultiPortLCD.cydwr file expecting to set which pins on the CY8C4245AXI-483 I wanted connected to the multi-Port. But there was no LCD component to use... the components area is empty.  That is what I can't figure out.

Dave

No, I got that...  I started a new project, added the multi-Port to it and the component appeared just as you say.

I then dragged the multi-Port into the TopDesign.cysch, set a few custom characters and then saved the TopDesign.cysch.

Next I open the MultiPortLCD.cydwr file expecting to set which pins on the CY8C4245AXI-483 I wanted connected to the multi-Port. But there was no LCD component to use... the components area is empty.  That is what I can't figure out.

Dave

ah, I see what you mean.

Due to the non-contiguous nature of this CharLCD(mp) component, the developer decided to not embed pins within it (unlike the official CharLCD component, which is contiguous mapping).

So, to use this guy, you'll have to drag-and-drop a "Digital Output Pin" component (under "Ports and Pins" in the Cypress Component Catalog) onto each of the terminals of the CharLCDmp. Once you do this, you'll see the Pins show up for assignment in the design wide resources.