ISO 9141 Click

How does it work?

ISO 9141 Click is based on the L9637, a monolithic bus driver designed to provide bidirectional serial communication in automotive diagnostic applications according to the specification "Diagnostic Systems ISO9141" from ST Microelectronics. The L9637 is also known as the K-Line Transceiver that provides a bidirectional link, called K, and a separate comparator, called L, to the related diagnosis bus that can be connected on terminal labeled with K and L on this Click board™. The K and L pins are protected against overvoltages and reverse battery condition. During the lack of power supply or ground, all pins show high impedance characteristics.

The L9637 has a wide supply voltage in a range from 4.5V to 36V, as well as several modes of operation like Standby Mode with low current consumption and overtemperature Shut-Down Mode. The overtemperature Shut-Down Mode switches OFF the K output if the L9637’s temperature increases above the thermal shut down threshold. To reactivate K again the temperature must decrease below the K switch ON temperature value. To achieve no fault for power supply under-voltage conditions the outputs will be switched OFF and stay at high impedance.

ISO 9141 Click communicates with MCU using the UART interface with the default baud rate of 9600bps, and commonly used UART RX and TX pins for the data transfer. The UART input TX and output RX of K are associated with the logic voltage level from mikroBUS™ (VCC) with its integrated pull-up resistances. Also, the L comparator output pin named LO has a pull-up resistance connected to VCC. All bus defined inputs L and K have supply voltage-dependent thresholds together with sufficient hysteresis to suppress line spikes.

This Click board™ is easy to program because it does not require an overly demanding configuration. Only what is necessary for the errorless work is the selection of the appropriate mode of operation, whether the Click board™ will work as a receiver or transmitter. In this way, the transmitter will send the data every 2 seconds while the receiving side will receive the data in a „byte-by-byte“ format. This can also be seen in an example code that contains easy to use functions that may be used as a reference for further development.

This Click board™ is designed to be operated with both 3.3V and 5V logic voltage levels that can be selected via VCC SEL jumper. This allows for both 3.3V and 5V capable MCUs to use the UART communication lines properly. However, the Click board™ comes equipped with a library that contains easy to use functions and an example code that can be used as a reference for further development.

Specifications

Pinout diagram

This table shows how the pinout on ISO 9141 Click corresponds to the pinout on the mikroBUS™ socket (the latter shown in the two middle columns).

Notes	Pin					Pin	Notes
	NC	1	AN	PWM	16	NC
	NC	2	RST	INT	15	NC
	NC	3	CS	RX	14	TX	UART TX
	NC	4	SCK	TX	13	RX	UART RX
	NC	5	MISO	SCL	12	NC
	NC	6	MOSI	SDA	11	NC
Power Supply	3.3V	7	3.3V	5V	10	5V	Power Supply
Ground	GND	8	GND	GND	9	GND	Ground

Onboard settings and indicators

ISO 9141 Click electrical specifications

Software Support

We provide a library for the ISO 9141 Click as well as a demo application (example), developed using MIKROE compilers. The demo can run on all the main MIKROE development boards.

Package can be downloaded/installed directly from NECTO Studio Package Manager (recommended), downloaded from our LibStock™ or found on MIKROE github account.

Library Description

This library contains API for ISO 9141 Click driver.

Key functions

• iso9141_generic_write This function writes a desired number of data bytes by using UART serial interface.

• iso9141_generic_read This function reads a desired number of data bytes by using UART serial interface.

Example Description

This example demonstrates the use of an ISO 9141 Click by showing the communication between the two Click boards.

 void application_task ( void ) 
 { 
 #ifdef DEMO_APP_TRANSMITTER 
     iso9141_generic_write( &iso9141, DEMO_TEXT_MESSAGE, strlen( DEMO_TEXT_MESSAGE ) ); 
     log_printf( &logger, "%s", ( char * ) DEMO_TEXT_MESSAGE ); 
     Delay_ms ( 1000 );  
 #else 
     uint8_t rx_byte = 0; 
     if ( 1 == iso9141_generic_read( &iso9141, &rx_byte, 1 ) ) 
     { 
        log_printf( &logger, "%c", rx_byte ); 
     } 
 #endif 
 }

The full application code, and ready to use projects can be installed directly from NECTO Studio Package Manager (recommended), downloaded from our LibStock™ or found on MIKROE github account.

Other MIKROE Libraries used in the example:

• MikroSDK.Board
• MikroSDK.Log
• Click.ISO9141

Additional notes and informations

Depending on the development board you are using, you may need USB UART click, USB UART 2 Click or RS232 Click to connect to your PC, for development systems with no UART to USB interface available on the board. UART terminal is available in all MIKROE compilers.

mikroSDK

This Click board™ is supported with mikroSDK - MIKROE Software Development Kit. To ensure proper operation of mikroSDK compliant Click board™ demo applications, mikroSDK should be downloaded from the LibStock and installed for the compiler you are using.

For more information about mikroSDK, visit the official page.