Migrate from release 6 to release 7¶

This technical note lists how to migrate from from release 6 to release 7.

The user guide has been adapted to new release 7. Special boxes provide the reference for legacy release 6.

Legacy version 6

Special boxes provide the reference for Legacy release 6.

New features¶

Release 7 does not include new features.

All the application libraries are unchanged.

Release 7 does not deprecate features.

Release 7 refactors screen and board functions into two new libraries, hV_Board and hV_Utilities_PDLS.

The new library hV_Board includes the low-level functions for the EXT3.1 extension board hardware and simulated Viewer.

The new library hV_Utilities_PDLS shares common functions and variables for all the screens.

Release 7 also migrates some elements from the hV_Configuration header file.

The new hV_List_Constants header file lists all the constants used at run-time.

The new hV_List_Options header file sets the build-time options.

The new hV_List_Boards header file defines the main controller boards configurations.

The new hV_List_Screens header file references the supported screens and their corresponding frame-buffers sizes.

Deprecated functions and synonyms (shown in italics below) have been removed from the peripherals library.

General

Release 5.5.0	Release 6.1.3	Release 7.0.0
-	`hV_HAL_begin()`	`hV_HAL_begin()`

GPIOs

Release 5.5.0	Release 6.1.3	Release 7.0.0
`hV_HAL_GPIO_pinMode()`	`hV_HAL_GPIO_pinMode()` `hV_HAL_GPIO_define()`	`hV_HAL_GPIO_define()`
`hV_HAL_digitalWrite()`	`hV_HAL_digitalWrite()` `hV_HAL_GPIO_set()` `hV_HAL_GPIO_clear()`	`hV_HAL_GPIO_set()` `hV_HAL_GPIO_clear()` `hV_HAL_write()`
`hV_HAL_digitalRead()`	`hV_HAL_digitalRead()` `hV_HAL_GPIO_get()`	`hV_HAL_GPIO_get()` `hV_HAL_GPIO_read()`

Serial

Release 5.5.0	Release 6.1.3	Release 7.0.0
`hV_HAL_Debug_print()` `hV_HAL_Debug_println()`	`hV_HAL_Debug_print()` `hV_HAL_Debug_println()` `hV_HAL_Serial_printf()`	`hV_HAL_Serial_printf()`
-	`hV_HAL_crlf()` `hV_HAL_Serial_crlf()`	`hV_HAL_Serial_crlf()`
`hV_HAL_Debug_flush()`	`hV_HAL_Debug_flush()`	-

SPI

Release 5.5.0	Release 6.1.3	Release 7.0.0
`hV_HAL_SPI_configure()`	`hV_HAL_SPI_configure()` `hV_HAL_SPI_begin()`	`hV_HAL_SPI_begin()`

I²C

Release 5.5.0	Release 6.1.3	Release 7.0.0
`hV_HAL_Wire_write()` `hV_HAL_Wire_read()`	`hV_HAL_Wire_write()` `hV_HAL_Wire_read()` `hV_HAL_Wire_writeRead()`	`hV_HAL_Wire_transfer()`

Time

Release 5.5.0	Release 6.1.3	Release 7.0.0
`hV_HAL_delay()`	`hV_HALdelay()` `hV_HAL_delayMilliseconds()`	`hV_HAL_delayMilliseconds()`

Log system

Release 5.5.0	Release 6.1.3	Release 7.0.0
-	`hV_HAL_log()`	`hV_HAL_log()`

The names of the variants of the Evaluation and Commercial editions are unchanged.

The name of the variant of the Viewer edition is unchanged.

The names of the variants of the Basic edition are unchanged, except for PDLS_EXT3_Basic now called PDLS_EXT3_Basic_Global.