Fez Cerberus Port 5 & 6 show X instead of Y in VS2012 Designer

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Hi I’m Paul and this is my very first post. Hello All and thank you in advance for your help.

I’ve just installed “NETMF and Gadgeteer Package 2014 R2 Beta-3” and setting up my first test project and have run into a problem.

On my board I got LED Strip 1.2 (Y) connected to port 5 which accepts C,S,Y but on the designer port 5 only shows C,S,X and wont allow me to connect it.

Port 5 & 6 show X instead of Y on the designer. Is this a bug?

Attached Designer Screenshot

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Known Issues:

Hardware
On boards version 1.1, sockets 5 and 6 are mislabeled. These sockets have PWM feature so they should also include P socket type.

See https://www.ghielectronics.com/docs/47/fez-cerberus-developer

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Thanks for the quick response.

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So how do I connect the LED Strip (Y) to port 5 in VS2012, the designer wont let me. Why hasn’t GHI not updated the designer to correct this by now.

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The board is wrong not the designer. Any socket with S should be X not Y.

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Your socket choices for a Y Socket on the Cerberus Board is 2, 3, 4 or 7.

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Unrelated to this post. A different problem.

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So a X and S socket should be able to be a Y socket as well, since the pins will overlap (SPI CK/MOSI/MISO) but they do meet the expected possible pin availability requirement… You can’t however use the Y feature on say 6 without impacting socket 5 because these pins are exposed on both sockets…

Can we get the “pin map” image updated here to reflect the fact they’re deemed only X not Y? https://www.ghielectronics.com/docs/47/fez-cerberus-developer

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@ Brett - This is what we thought at first but then SPI pins are shared among different sockets and you most certainly run into problems if you make them Y. Use X and it will make life easier for everyone.

IF you only have one S socket then you can keep it as Y.

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Can you please clarify for me that port 5 and 6 can have P also, if so will the designer allow P modules to connect to this port through the designer.

I agree with Brett, you need to change the pin map.

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The designer is correct

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Gus says the designer is correct, so the best place to use as a reference is the source code for the mainboard driver.

In the FEZCerberus_43.cs file the sockets are defined as follows

Socket 5 : P, C, S, X
Socket 6 : P, U, S, X

So yes, both socket 5 and 6 can be used for PWM.

I would provide a link to the mainboard code, but I have not been keeping up to date with the new public location so I still reference the codeplex repository, I think this has all moved so I do not want to point you to something that is possibly not going to be maintained.

As @ Brett pointed out, Y can be X, but X cannot be Y. Due to the pin conflicts between socket 5 and 6, these sockets are and should be limited to X.

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You can use them as Y, individually, but you can’t use one as S and one as Y because you’re conflicting with the SPI pins. You can use them both as X fine without conflict, you can use one as S and the other as X again without conflicts. If you really REALLY wanted to use one as a Y then you could modify the mainboard definitions so you didn’t get a pin conflicts but as everyone has pointed out, it’s safest to leave it as-is.

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I understand now, thank you all so much.