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  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-08-31 11:06
    With the addition of the EECOPY command Tachyon has some interesting abilities to store and reload alternate configurations.

    Its not a simple matter of copying the 32K of RAM to EEPROM ... Peter's masterful use/reuse of RAM means, unfortunately that key items in setup have come and gone by the time the terminal console is handed to the user!

    BUT WAIT! Don't despair! Peter has another trick, BACKUP. Didn't you ever wonder why bACKUP has so much to it ... it does because it has to assemble the pieces to look like they came in s neat package from the compiler.

    The following examples are based on an improved version of the Propeller Platform Through-Hole board I am working on. It has two AT24C1024B EEPROMs yielding 256 KBytes addressed $0 to $3FFFF. The first 32K, as usual belongs to the current boot image.

    So load up you favorite kernal spinfile, apply your extensions and custom tools. Several lBACKUPs later you are ready to rock and roll ... BUT WAIT!!! Let's buy some insurance ... type in ...

    $0 $38000 $8000 EECOPY
    

    Copy, starting at $0 the 32K boot image and store it in the top of the EEPROM array. Now to work creating. Sooner or later you need to put it all on the line and BACKUP merging development code with new code ... test it out, does it work? YES, save it
    $0 $30000 $8000 EECOPY
    

    ... or NO, it doesn't, time to start over, recover the original development configuration ...
    $38000 $0 $8000  EECOPY REBOOT
    


    It beats the heck out of multiply redoing 2-5 lengthy Copy/Pastes.
  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,822
    edited 2012-08-31 11:59
    I just did a test run of loading in EXTEND.fth, I have a fairly fast PC, and I was very surprised that it took some fifteen minutes (approx) to cut and paste it into Tera Term, sure glad he has BACKUP. At the end of the cut and paste, it showed that there was one error ( I had a 60ms delay), I failed to write the error down, so now I am not sure at what point that will show up. There must be a better way, or at least a faster way.

    I went ahead and ran the MULTITASKING example, now it ran successfully. The obvious question is, how do you stop the event(s), is this where REBOOT or COLD comes in?

    Since I am using a QuickStart board for this, I wonder if the next test should be, being able to use the touch buttons to light up the LEDs, anybody have any ideas as to how that would be done?

    Ray
  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-08-31 13:49
    Rsadeika wrote: »
    I just did a test run of loading in EXTEND.fth, I have a fairly fast PC, and I was very surprised that it took some fifteen minutes (approx) to cut and paste it into Tera Term, sure glad he has BACKUP. At the end of the cut and paste, it showed that there was one error ( I had a 60ms delay), I failed to write the error down, so now I am not sure at what point that will show up. There must be a better way, or at least a faster way.

    I went ahead and ran the MULTITASKING example, now it ran successfully. The obvious question is, how do you stop the event(s), is this where REBOOT or COLD comes in?

    Since I am using a QuickStart board for this, I wonder if the next test should be, being able to use the touch buttons to light up the LEDs, anybody have any ideas as to how that would be done?

    Ray

    Likely you didn't have an actually error during the copy/paste. I am running a 2.5 GHz quad core I5 iMac with ZTerm and 80 Msec line wait and about one in 10 copy/paste actions hiccup.15 minutes is all wrong. Are you sure you didn't set a character wait too?

    The answers to your multi-Task questions are in Message #241 of this thread.
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2012-08-31 14:12
    Rsadeika wrote: »
    Since I am using a QuickStart board for this, I wonder if the next test should be, being able to use the touch buttons to light up the LEDs, anybody have any ideas as to how that would be done?

    Here is caskaz's quickstart demo in propforth, this should be similar

    http://propforth.googlecode.com/files/QuickstartTouchDemo20120611-1540.txt

    I thought somebody already ported this, but I can't find the link right now
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-08-31 15:26
    Rsadeika wrote: »
    I just did a test run of loading in EXTEND.fth, I have a fairly fast PC, and I was very surprised that it took some fifteen minutes (approx) to cut and paste it into Tera Term, sure glad he has BACKUP. At the end of the cut and paste, it showed that there was one error ( I had a 60ms delay), I failed to write the error down, so now I am not sure at what point that will show up. There must be a better way, or at least a faster way.

    I went ahead and ran the MULTITASKING example, now it ran successfully. The obvious question is, how do you stop the event(s), is this where REBOOT or COLD comes in?

    Since I am using a QuickStart board for this, I wonder if the next test should be, being able to use the touch buttons to light up the LEDs, anybody have any ideas as to how that would be done?

    Ray

    There is a faster way! That was supposed to be a 60ms line delay, that is it only waits after each end of line. I timed the load and it took 36 seconds and this is the output:
    End of source code, there were 0 errors found 
    CODE   @$3627  - bytes used in this load = 1511
    NAMES  @$2021  - bytes used in this load = 751
    YCALLS @ 243 entries free 
     ok
    '' 
    A ... EEPROM ... 9600d BAUD  ok
    .LAP 36,113,223us ok
    ?BACKUP  ok
    
    It might be a good idea for me to include the time to load in the STATS report as I did manually in this example.

    If you have a look back at some of the other posts you will see your questions answered. Essentially we don't have any direct control over a cog in any language, we can stop it or we can reload it, that's all. Also the only reason we normally would want to stop the cog itself it is because we are testing so it is just as easy to reboot (<ctrl> C or break etc). The other way is to place something in your software that can look at a hub command and decide what to do. Have a look at post #241.

    EDIT: Looks like Brian answered this a bit already :)
  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-08-31 17:16

    FWIW - here's my numbers for essentially the same file - 37+ SECONDS - it may even have been faster than Peter ... but i had set it to 133ms and had not put it back to 65 ms.

    END
    End of source code, there were 0 errors found
    CODE   @$3D4F  - bytes used in this load = 1512
    NAMES  @$1D3A  - bytes used in this load = 751
    YCALLS @ 140 entries free
     ok
    ''
    A ... EEPROM ... 19200d BAUD  ok
      ok
    CR .LAP CR
    37,610,922us
     ok
    ?BACKUP  ok
    
  • nglordinglordi Posts: 114
    edited 2012-08-31 17:46
    Brian:

    Where is EECOPY located? It doesn't appear in the QWORD list.

    NickL
  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-08-31 18:44
    nglordi wrote: »
    Brian:

    Where is EECOPY located? It doesn't appear in the QWORD list.

    NickL

    Its in recent (last three days) copied of EXTEND.fth
  • nglordinglordi Posts: 114
    edited 2012-08-31 19:15
    Brian:

    .Thanks. The EECOPY word, as you suggested, will prove very useful in working with Tachyon.

    I have been trying out the sdcard word set. Executing SD with all my cards only results in a card error message, apparently due
    to a timeout error. Have you eXperienced any problems with this word set?

    NickL.
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-08-31 19:19
    nglordi wrote: »
    Brian:

    .Thanks. The EECOPY word, as you suggested, will prove very useful in working with Tachyon.

    I have been trying out the sdcard word set. Executing SD with all my cards only results in a card error message, apparently due
    to a timeout error. Have you eXperienced any problems with this word set?

    NickL.

    Hi Nick, there are some cards that aren't working but I've been stretched here and there but I fully intend to sort out what's going on. Having all the primitives required at your fingertips make it very easy to test as you can just issue CMDs and ACMDs etc on the fly and look at the results. Once I do that then I will introduce the virtual memory and file system layers on top of that.
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-08-31 19:21
    The Dropbox files are not the bleeding edge files as you need to look at the Google docs versions for that. But when I'm happy with a version I then update it. In this case I think it just didn't get updated perhaps but I've done that now.
  • PowersoftPowersoft Posts: 72
    edited 2012-09-01 00:03
    Powersoft wrote: »
    when i understand you right is 8 bit enough. It wil used for a motor controller

    Peter,

    Plese can you take a look at my question about PWM with TACHYON

    Thanks
  • PowersoftPowersoft Posts: 72
    edited 2012-09-01 00:50
    Peter,

    Is it possible to implement the case structure in TACHYON?
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-01 01:18
    Yes, I started having a look at it and just seeing if I could convince the counters to work together without dedicating a cog for this. Well you can and Tracy Allen did some work on using 2 counters with an external XOR gate or 3 counters otherwise you need to dedicate a cog to it so that's what I will do. So as soon as I get a few minutes when I'm not on the forum or documenting what I've done, reviewing and testing changes and requests, scratching myself etc I will check it out and try it on some of my 8A H-bridge modules just to make sure :)

    Ditto with the CASE structure although I have my own ideas on that. Did you check out the simpler indexed LOOKUP structure?
  • RsadeikaRsadeika Posts: 3,822
    edited 2012-09-01 05:40
    I discovered my error with the cut/paste procedure. In Tera Term, Serial port setup, it has a Transmit delay section, I put the 60ms in msec/char, where it should of been 60ms in msec/line. Now that I got that corrected, the cut/paste session goes a lot quicker.

    Since I am using the QuickStart board, I was playing around with the code below. After you get the code running, the LED is flashing, I type in STOPCOG4, which stops the LED. Then I STARTBLINK4, and the LED starts up again, the problem is, when I STOPCOG4, and then STARTBLINK4, again, nothing happens. It is if STARTBLINK4 is no longer functioning, so I have to do a ' BLINKY >PFA 4 RUN to get it going again. I thought that once you created a new WORD, it is valid until you reboot or do a COLD? Is there something that I missed?

    Ray
    #16 MASK    CONSTANT .RDY
    : BLINKY    50d BEGIN .RDY OUTSET DUP ms .RDY OUTCLR DUP ms ATN? DUP 1 > IF NIP DUP THEN 1 = UNTIL ;
    ' BLINKY >PFA  4 RUN
    : STOPCOG4 1 4 RUN ;
    : STARTBLINK4 ' BLINKY >PFA 4 RUN ;
    
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-01 06:31
    Rsadeika wrote: »
    I discovered my error with the cut/paste procedure. In Tera Term, Serial port setup, it has a Transmit delay section, I put the 60ms in msec/char, where it should of been 60ms in msec/line. Now that I got that corrected, the cut/paste session goes a lot quicker.

    Since I am using the QuickStart board, I was playing around with the code below. After you get the code running, the LED is flashing, I type in STOPCOG4, which stops the LED. Then I STARTBLINK4, and the LED starts up again, the problem is, when I STOPCOG4, and then STARTBLINK4, again, nothing happens. It is if STARTBLINK4 is no longer functioning, so I have to do a ' BLINKY >PFA 4 RUN to get it going again. I thought that once you created a new WORD, it is valid until you reboot or do a COLD? Is there something that I missed?

    Ray
    #16 MASK    CONSTANT .RDY
    : BLINKY    50d BEGIN .RDY OUTSET DUP ms .RDY OUTCLR DUP ms ATN? DUP 1 > IF NIP DUP THEN 1 = UNTIL ;
    ' BLINKY >PFA  4 RUN
    : STOPCOG4 1 4 RUN ;
    : STARTBLINK4 ' BLINKY >PFA 4 RUN ;
    

    Because Tachyon compiles word by word it isn't possible (at present anyway) to do certain things the way that they are normally done in conventional Forth which has it's own limitations. The tick word is immediate and as of yet I have not put in any compensations so that if you try to put it in a definition it will of course execute immediately as you would expect it to but the address is on the stack but not compiled as it needs to be. That's why in my examples I create a constant first and then use it like this from your example:
    ' BLINKY >PFA CONSTANT UBLINK
    : START  UBLINK 4 RUN ;
    
  • PowersoftPowersoft Posts: 72
    edited 2012-09-01 10:29
    Peter,

    I was playing with the ANSI VT100 words.
    There is some strange thing in the source.
    The definition of pri CUR is not finished.
    I marked with an arrow
    Please can you take a look?

    TACHYON

    \ **** ANSI VT100 terminal support

    pri ESC ( ch -- ) $1B EMIT EMIT ;
    pri ESCB ( ch -- ) "[" ESC EMIT ;
    pri ESCH ( ch -- ) "#" ESC EMIT ;
    pri CUR ( cmd n -- ) "[" ESC SWAP <=
    pri .PAR SWAP #10 .NUM EMIT ;
    pub XY ( x y -- ) ";" SWAP CUR "H" .PAR ;
    pub HOME "H" ESCB ;
    pub ERSCN "2" ESCB "J" EMIT ;
    pub ERLINE "2" ESCB "K" EMIT ;
    pub CLS HOME ERSCN ;
    pub CURSOR ( on/off -- ) "?" ESCB ." 25" IF "h" ELSE "l" THEN EMIT ;
  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-09-01 19:30
    Powersoft wrote: »
    Peter,

    I was playing with the ANSI VT100 words.
    There is some strange thing in the source.
    The definition of pri CUR is not finished.
    I marked with an arrow

    TACHYON FORTH permits you to leave out the ";" and 'run on' into the next definition. IN this case the word definition CUR is finished by .PAR
  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-09-01 19:36
    Peter,

    I have tried Kingston 2 GB micro SD cards and they work fine. I bought 10 SanDisk 2 GB micro SD cards and the first two I have tried generate "Card error" .... suggestions for further investigation ???
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-01 19:54
    Powersoft wrote: »
    Peter,

    I was playing with the ANSI VT100 words.
    There is some strange thing in the source.
    The definition of pri CUR is not finished.
    I marked with an arrow
    Please can you take a look?
    <snip>
    pri CUR ( cmd n -- ) "[" ESC SWAP <=
    pri .PAR SWAP #10 .NUM EMIT ;
    pub XY ( x y -- ) ";" SWAP CUR "H" .PAR ;
    <snip>

    This is deliberate as CUR's final act is to call .PAR but that's silly to call it when you can "fall-through" into it which is possible in Tachyon Forth. Normally this is not possible in any Forth that I know of as each word normally has a header and even if it didn't it would still have a CFA. TF keeps the headers completely separate and there is no real CFA as such, as it's all interpreted as Tachyon bytecode instructions which are executed by the Tachyon VM cog. The header does not even point to the code but it does have the one or two bytecodes necessary that represent the call or the instructions for the word. The address is actually in the XCALL vector table which is indexed with a single byte. In this case the header for CUR looks like this:
    [FONT=courier new][FONT=arial]CUR HEADER:[/FONT]
    1FB3: 43 55 52 82 BD 24
    [FONT=arial]CUR CODE:[/FONT]  
     ' CUR >PFA 10 DUMP 
    37A0: 73 5B BD 1A 15 [COLOR=#808080]15 73 0A C0 DA C0 41 06 73 3B 15    s[....s....A.s;.
           [/COLOR][B]"["   ESC   SWAP[/B]
     ok
    ' .PAR >PFA 10 DUMP 
    37A5: 15 73 0A C0 DA C0 41 06 [COLOR=#808080]73 3B 15 BD 24 73 48 BD    .s....A.s;..$sH.[/COLOR]
         [B]SWAP #10   .NUM   EMIT  EXIT[/B]
    [/FONT]
    
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-01 19:55
    Peter,

    I have tried Kingston 2 GB micro SD cards and they work fine. I bought 10 SanDisk 2 GB micro SD cards and the first two I have tried generate "Card error" .... suggestions for further investigation ???
    Definitely, but I'm still scratching myself :)
  • prof_brainoprof_braino Posts: 4,313
    edited 2012-09-02 07:27
    Powersoft wrote: »
    Is it possible to implement the case structure in TACHYON?

    Sorry to butt in to a question addressed to Peter-

    CASE is always possible, but tends to be very cumbersome and expensive from a forth dictionary perspective. Usually it is implemented on PC environments where there is tons of memory that needs to be wasted.

    Tachyon is very fast and small. CASE doesn't feel like Tachyon.

    Could you describe what you want to do? Usually there is a nice way to accomplish what case does, but faster using less memory, etc.
  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-09-02 07:43
    More on SanDisk 2 GB microSD .. I got out one of my PropBOE boards loaded with Mike Green's PropBOEBasic and the SanDisk was read and written to by Mike's routines.
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-02 07:54
    I'm just playing with this right at the moment and I have isolated the "bad" cards and I am now getting them to read. Looks like it's an initialization thing so I will continue to check them out and post an update soon.
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-02 08:29
    More on SanDisk 2 GB microSD .. I got out one of my PropBOE boards loaded with Mike Green's PropBOEBasic and the SanDisk was read and written to by Mike's routines.
    I've updated the Google and Dropbox files so have a look at it now. I've tested this out on at least 1/2 dozen different cards or more from 1GB to 8GB in various brands etc. It's also setup to do the automatic polling so it will report the card's stats as soon as you insert it. That's probably all I will do for tonight (here) but I know I have more testing to do as I have some Eye-Fi cards here that didn't respond although I haven't really looked into it yet. The initialization is fairly basic and I will do some more checks
  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-09-02 14:50
    OK!!! SANDISK uSD works


    KEYPOLL SDPOLL  ok
      ok
    
    Card inserted
    MFG:    03
    OEM:    SD
    PROD:   SU02G
    REV:    80
    S/N:    B55F1C21
    DATE:   2012/5
    CRC:    27
    
    TACC    150ns
    NSAC    0
    Card Error
    Card inserted
    MFG:    03
    OEM:    SD
    PROD:   SU02G
    REV:    80
    S/N:    B55F1C21
    DATE:   2012/5
    CRC:    27
    
    TACC    150ns
    NSAC    0
    
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-02 20:57
    SDCARD.fth has just been upgraded to allow SD pins to be defined or changed on the fly. You can specify an individual pin change only or even all 4 pins as a long. I've got boards with 2 or more SD card slots so this is convenient for me. Here's the output from my test board with a 4GB microSD and an 8GB SD:
    [B]PINS? [/B]
    i----------u----------i
    P00 <-- 0     1 --> P31
    P01 <-- 0     1 <-- P30
    P02 <-- 0     1 <-- P29
    P03 <-- 0     0 <-- P28
    P04 <-- 0     1 --> P27
    P05 <-- 0     0 <-- P26
    P06 <-- 0     1 <-- P25
    P07 <-- 0     1 <-- P24
    P08 <-- 0     1 --> P23
    P09 <-- 0     1 --> P22
    P10 <-- 0     1 --> P21
    P11 <-- 0     1 --> P20
    P12 <-- 0     1 <-- P19
    P13 <-- 0     1 --> P18
    P14 <-- 0     1 --> P17
    P15 <-- 0     1 --> P16
    i---------------------i ok
    [B]P1145 SD [/B]
    Card inserted 
    MFG:    89
    OEM:    
    PROD:   NCard
    REV:    10
    S/N:    B3710000
    DATE:   2010/11
    CRC:    24
    
    TACC    100ns
    NSAC    0
     ok
    [B]P1107 SD [/B]
    Card inserted 
    MFG:    03
    OEM:    SD
    PROD:   SU04G
    REV:    80
    S/N:    F0E5620A
    DATE:   2010/10
    CRC:    3C
    
    
  • Brian RileyBrian Riley Posts: 626
    edited 2012-09-03 00:16
    PETER HERE'S THE SD SETUP FOR PROPELLER PLATFORM USB AND ANY OTHER PROP PLAT USING THE "MICRO SD PLATFORM MODULE"

    : P1146		'' PP-USB/uSD-PM
    	#26 MASK OUTCLR	'' P1146 PPC reset 
    	$01020003 SDPINS
    {	
    	#03 SDCS	'' SD CS - Card chip select
    	#01 SCK		'' SD CLK - Card clock
    	#02 MOSI	'' SD DI - data in from Prop
    	#00 MISO	'' SD DO - data out to Prop
    }
    	;
    

    I couldn't, for the life of me, figure the scheme for naming the "P11xx" so I picked next in sequence.
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-03 01:09
    Hi Brian,
    The P11xx numbers are actual PCB model numbers so that I could just enter the appropriate name :) You can remove these from your copy of the source code but they are useful to me. So you would just name yours as PLATFORM or something unique enough to identify it with the board and pinout. The curly comments are just the alternative way of defining the pins as you have guessed whereas the SDPINS version is more efficient.

    Even though I could probably do some more work on testing other cards I can do that later on and as for now it would be good to introduce the other layers, first virtual memory, then FAT16 (yuck), then FAT32 (yuck). However it's really good to work with files as virtual memory as you can directly access any part of the file that you want so I will probably demonstrate some applications using this as well. Certainly a text editor and at least a character based text display would be a good app to demonstrate this plus it is a big step towards being totally self-hosted.

    NOTE: This thread has now passed the 10,000 views mark a couple of hours ago!
  • Peter JakackiPeter Jakacki Posts: 10,193
    edited 2012-09-03 04:12
    Here's a quick little update that I may expand upon as I was converting some Spin code and thought, hey wait, I can leave this part as it is, I'll just tweak the compiler to process it. When you enter variables in spin you can have them separated by commas so that's what I did also. The only other change was using LONG,WORD,BYTE always in uppercase as I like to leave lowercase to denote variables and constants etc rather than code which in in uppercase or CamelCase at least.
    In Spin or Tachyon variables are entered like this:
    LONG faddr,flen,flen2,cold
    WORD c2cmd,c2dat
    BYTE chip,c2code

    The reason I changed it was because.....
    Before I get going on the full SD software I've been sidetracked by some software I wrote a couple of years ago to program a SILABS C8051F in-circuit using just the SDA line plus a dedicated C2CK/RST line. As some of you may know I use support micros in many of my designs rather than a dumb and more expensive chip. So rather than an MCP3208 for 12-bit ADC I use a SILABS micro that has everything including a faster ADC, voltage reference, temp sensor, a 25MIPS core, 0.5% internal oscillator and various bus interfaces including I2C. They cost a little bit more than many other "8-bit" micros but they are worth it and better and cheaper than a dumb chip. If you are interested I will be starting a project page for this family as well which will be linked at the bottom of the Intro page as usual. Writing code for the 8051 is trivial and plenty of tools are available although I will have precompiled modules available as well so it's easy peasy (super simple).
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