Why is the display of my button control using TouchGFX not clear?

[zhaowhong]

Hi

My project is using an alientek 4.3 inch TFTLCD screen, which is driven by FMC (Flexible Memory Controller).
And  ，The display effect of the button control does not meet my expectations after I load it.“next text”is my button,

that there are many horizontal dots or speckles inside。

thank you

[GaetanGodart]

Hello @zhaowhong and welcome to the community! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:

 

It is usually quite hard to help people on hardware related issue.

Can you give me more information about your problem.
When does it occurs?
What happens if you move the button to another location?
What happens if you do not add the text? Do you still get the dots? The lines?
Are you using a flexButton or a button + a TextArea?

 

Regards,

[mƎALLEm]

+What STM32 product you are using?

[zhaowhong]

stm32F767

[XD_it]

It's hard to tell with limited information but i've had a very similar issue in the past.

It was caused by not moving/placing image assets in the external FMC flash during the flashing process. I had to write a "custom loader" to interface & place the images in external flash.

Another issue similar to this was memory bandwidth problems. I "clocked" the FMC memories to slow which resulted in a similar looking graphic glitch.

[Osman SOYKURT]

Hello @zhaowhong ,

Did you change the orientation of your screen in TouchGFX? Have you applied layout rotation on your image?

[zhaowhong]

thank you

 "I have not added any image."Is this related to not adding anything?" I found  if I select 

 The display effect is well.

 

[mƎALLEm]

It could be also due to the speculative behavior of the cortex M7:

https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus-products/m7-speculative-access-vs-cache/td-p/131916

https://community.st.com/t5/stm32-mcus-touchgfx-and-gui/screen-freezes-when-using-both-sdram-and-touchgfx-enabled/td-p/590334

In that case need to disable all the unused memory regions using MPU.

You can for example start by setting a Background MPU config to disable mainly all regions except the internal memory regions,  then enable the necessary external memories one by one. 

Example, refer to and see the MPU config: https://github.com/STMicroelectronics/STM32CubeF7/blob/master/Projects/STM32F769I_EVAL/Applications/Audio/Audio_playback_and_record/Src/main.c

This part is the MPU background config, then subsequent configs (not shown below) are to enable the necessary memory regions.

 

 /* Configure the MPU as Strongly ordered for not defined regions */
 MPU_InitStruct.Enable = MPU_REGION_ENABLE;
 MPU_InitStruct.BaseAddress = 0x00;
 MPU_InitStruct.Size = MPU_REGION_SIZE_4GB;
 MPU_InitStruct.AccessPermission = MPU_REGION_NO_ACCESS;
 MPU_InitStruct.IsBufferable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_BUFFERABLE;
 MPU_InitStruct.IsCacheable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_CACHEABLE;
 MPU_InitStruct.IsShareable = MPU_ACCESS_SHAREABLE;
 MPU_InitStruct.Number = MPU_REGION_NUMBER0;
 MPU_InitStruct.TypeExtField = MPU_TEX_LEVEL0;
 MPU_InitStruct.SubRegionDisable = 0x87;
 MPU_InitStruct.DisableExec = MPU_INSTRUCTION_ACCESS_DISABLE;

 

[GaetanGodart]

Hello @zhaowhong ,

 

Can you quickly tell us how you solved the issue, this way, if someone else have the same issue and they find your post they can also fix their issue?
That would be very appreciated! :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes:

 

Regards,