Hello friend,

After you set PEREN and VPCTL =0x8000 (reset), wait for (VPCTL&0x8000) ==0... if this takes more than 100.000 cycles, you have the same problem as I have... and I don't know the solution... just power-off-on and hope it works again.

greetings,
Bart
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>Hi,
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>I use the EVM642 board with CCS 2.21. I try to configure port 2 DM642 as VGA
>display port (using CSL). I have taken the example in appendix B.2 of
>spru629.pdf as a base program to initialize the VP registers.
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>When the board is power cycled, using my initialization, VP doesnt start
>outputting data, VDSTAT remains 0 (no line count...). When I download the
>VGA_DISPLAY - example out file (shipped with EVM board, output of color
>bars), the display starts. After downloading this VGA_DISPLAY example once,
>I can reset the CPU in CCS and start the output with my program successfuly.
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>There is a bit somewhere in a register that is set by VGA_DISPLAY and that I
>have forgotten to set (or that is not there in the spru629 appendix b.2
>example). The setting of this bit also survives a ResetCPU by CCS.
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>Can anyone tell me the steps to activate the VP-display port (apart from
>setting the framesize etc. parameters)?
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>I my program there are the following actions to activate the VP-display
>port:
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>*) Enable Video Port in the PERCFG register (CHIP_config)
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>*) VP_open(2, 0)
>The call of VP_Open with VP_OPEN_RESET doesnt return if I call VP_open(2,
>VP_OPEN_RESET) after calling VP_open(0, VP_OPEN_RESET). Is there a reason
>for that?
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>*) set VPRST bit in VPCTL to 1 (Reset Video Port)
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>*) set PEREN bit in PCR (Enable VideoPort)
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>*) set RSTCH bit in VDCTL to 1 (Reset VideoDisplayModule)
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>*) set other Bits in VPCTL and other registers like VDFRMSZ
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>*) set VPHLT bit in VPCTL to 1 (Clear VPHLT - enable Video Port)
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>what is missing?
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>best regards,
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>thomas
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