C

RH850 D1M1A

This topic provides board-specific information about Renesas' RH850.

Supported color depths

The reference port for this board supports 32bpp color depth. The board also supports 16bpp and 24bpp with the ItemLayer API, but not with QUL_COLOR_DEPTH. See Color depth for more information.

Board configuration

Connect the Mango Adapter to the Main Board, and ensure that all jumpers and switches are set exactly as described.

Enable HDMI Output

To enable HDMI video output, follow the jumper and dip-switch configuration.

On the Mango Main Board:

  • Connect the JP96 pins
  • Open JP98 pins 2 and 3, and connect pin PJ99 to JP98-2.
  • DSW31.7 switch set to OFF

On the Mango Adapter Board:

  • DSW1.1 switch set to OFF

Enable Flashing

To enable flashing and debugging, ensure that the following switch configuration is set:

SwitchState
SW3PU
SW5OFF
SW9OFF
SW2PU
SW7PD
SW1OFF
SW4OFF
SW6PD
SW8OFF
SW10PD

Enable HMI section

To be able to use the HMI section on the board (HMI knob and 4-direction switch), open JP30 and set the DWS29.1-1 switches to ON.

Note: This setup can interfere with CAN. See Mango Main Board reference docs for more details.

Platform-specific CMake options

Following CMake options are available exclusively for this platform:

CMake OptionDescription
QUL_USE_DEFAULT_RH850_STARTUP_FILEBy default Qt Quick Ultralite is using startup file that comes with the RGL library. Set this global variable to OFF to disable this behavior. Then you are able to add your custom startup file to the executable target sources.

Resource cache policy

By default, an application's resource data is copied to SDRAM on startup. In order to retain these resources in flash and not load them to RAM on startup, add the following CMake option to your CMake project file:

set(QUL_DEFAULT_RESOURCE_CACHE_POLICY "NoCaching")

Alternatively, it can be enabled only for individual images like this:

set_source_files_properties(
    big/button.png PROPERTIES
    QUL_RESOURCE_CACHE_POLICY "NoCaching"
)

Note: Set these CMake options before the qul_add_resource entry.

Loading resources to VRAM

In some cases, performance might be improved when loading resources to VRAM. When using ImageLayer, there can also be memory bandwidth issues that can be solved by placing some resources in VRAM. Images that are rotated or transformed are especially suited for being placed in VRAM.

To specify that a resource should be loaded to VRAM, set the QUL_RESOURCE_RUNTIME_ALLOCATION_TYPE property of the resource to 128 as follows:

set_source_files_properties(
    "image.png"
    PROPERTIES
    QUL_RESOURCE_RUNTIME_ALLOCATION_TYPE 128)

Custom layer requirements

On RH850, there are some special requirements for resources that are used as source for an ImageLayer.

Rendering errors might appear if using a resource placed in internal flash as the source of an ImageLayer inside a SpriteLayer. It's not recommended to use the NoCaching resource cache policy for these images. If the resource has to be kept internal flash, use a root level ImageLayer instead.

Resources used as the source of an ImageLayer inside a SpriteLayer need to have an eight byte aligned width. That means 32 bit per pixel images need to have a width that's a multiple of two, and 16 bit per pixel images need to have a width that's a multiple of four.

Resources used as the source of a root level ImageLayer need to have a 128 byte aligned width. That means 32 bit per pixel images need to have a width that's a multiple of 32, and 16 bit per pixel images need to have a width that's a multiple of 16.

Resources used as the source of a root level ImageLayer need to have an address alignment of 128 bytes, and the internal resource split image optimization needs to be turned off. This can be configured with the QUL_RESOURCE_ALIGNMENT and QUL_RESOURCE_SPLIT_IMAGE_OPTIMIZATION properties:

set_source_files_properties(background.png
    QUL_RESOURCE_SPLIT_IMAGE_OPTIMIZATION off
    QUL_RESOURCE_ALIGNMENT 128)

RLE image layers

To use RLE compressed images as the source for an ImageLayer, the RGB888RLE pixel format needs to be used.

set_source_files_properties(
    background.png
    PROPERTIES
        QUL_RESOURCE_IMAGE_PIXEL_FORMAT "RGB888RLE"
        QUL_RESOURCE_SPLIT_IMAGE_OPTIMIZATION off
        QUL_RESOURCE_ALIGNMENT 128)

Now the QML ImageLayer API can be used like this:

ImageLayer {
    source: "background.png"
}

It's also necessary to enable RLE support for the corresponding hardware layer using the Qt Quick Ultralite configuration API for Renesas RH850.

#include <rh850extras/rh850configuration.h>

Then set the layer type of the given hardware layer to Rh850::Configuration::Rle like this:

Rh850::Configuration::setLayerType(0, Rh850::Configuration::Rle);

In this case it's assumed that the bottom-most root layer will be an ImageLayer with an RGB888RLE image source. The RH850 supports up to four root layers. If several RLE image layers are needed, or if there should be any other layers below the RLE image layer, then you must adjust the layer indexes correspondingly when calling Rh850::Configuration::setLayerType.

Finally, you must link your application against Qul::PlatformRh850Extras:

target_link_libraries(<target> PRIVATE Qul::PlatformRh850Extras)

RLE image pixel format support

For normal images apart from ImageLayers, the RGB888RLE option of the QUL_RESOURCE_IMAGE_PIXEL_FORMAT property is not supported on RH850. For RLE compression of opaque images on RH850, it's recommended to use the AutomaticCompressedLossless option, as that will automatically choose the XRGB8888RLE option for opaque images.

set_source_files_properties(
    image.png
    PROPERTIES
        QUL_RESOURCE_IMAGE_PIXEL_FORMAT "AutomaticCompressedLossless")

Renesas RH850 Extras module

Qt Quick Ultralite comes with a Renesas RH850 Extras module which includes additional APIs specific to Renesas RH850. To use these APIs, link Qul::PlatformRh850Extras to your project.

The following APIs are available through the extras module:

<rh850extras/rh850configuration.h>

Provides extra configuration functions for the Renesas RH850 platform

Available under certain Qt licenses.
Find out more.