ViewPort + BST?

Bill Henning

Has anyone used the combination?

VMCOG requires BST, which became an issue when I tried to use ViewPort with VMCOG...

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jazzed

Why do you need to use ViewPort?

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Bill Henning

To watch the SPI waveforms. I am guessing I busted something.

Now that I've had some coffee, I think I can make it work by compiling with BST, and just "connecting" with Viewport.

On the other hand, my Windows box keeps shutting itself down, I think the fan retaining clip must have broken again.

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jazzed

You could use a second propeller or maybe a real o-scope. Scopes are pretty cheap these days.
As an exercise you could make a low frequency o-scope with the microphone input on your computer [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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Hanno

Bill, you're correct. As long as your Propeller is running a program which uses the "conduit" object ViewPort should connect to it by using the "connect" button. It doesn't matter how the program got to the Propeller- from EEPROM, the ViewPort loader, or BST...
Hanno

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Developer of ViewPort, the premier visual debugger for the Propeller (read the review here, thread here),
12Blocks, the block-based programming environment (thread here)
and PropScope, the multi-function USB oscilloscope/function generator/logic analyzer

Bill Henning

I have an old 25MHz tube oscilloscope that takes up too much desk space and is only 2 channel... and a HUGE old 100MHz Tektronix scope/logic analyzer that is the size of a small desk - both currently unused due to lab size issues [noparse]:([/noparse]

I do have a PropScope on the way, and am ordering a 1Gs/sec 100Mhz scope next week [noparse]:)[/noparse]

But I've become addicted to watching all four SPI channels at once...

jazzed said...
You could use a second propeller or maybe a real o-scope. Scopes are pretty cheap these days.
As an exercise you could make a low frequency o-scope with the microphone input on your computer [noparse]:)[/noparse]

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Bill Henning

Thanks, that's what I will do for now.

Full BST support would be nice [noparse]:)[/noparse]

Hanno said...
Bill, you're correct. As long as your Propeller is running a program which uses the "conduit" object ViewPort should connect to it by using the "connect" button. It doesn't matter how the program got to the Propeller- from EEPROM, the ViewPort loader, or BST...
Hanno

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