With a little help from my friends.....

Pliers

I have written a motion control program in assembly.
It checks sensors and controls the motor direction and speed.
The motor is controlled with acceleration and de acceleration subroutines.
It is my most extensive program ever. I’m looking forward to posting the project when finished.

My next step is to build in some diagnostics concerning the motion, but I’m having difficulty getting the data out of the assembly program.

I was hoping someone would show me how to make this sample program work.

CON
  _clkmode = xtal1 + pll16x
  _xinfreq = 5_000_000
OBJ
  pst   :  "Parallax Serial Terminal"
var
  byte cog 
  byte Data
  long Data1
  long Data2 
Pub Main
data2 := 500
  pst.Start(56000) 
repeat    
     Data := pst.charin
     if data== "a"     'I send the character "a" from visual basic
      pst.char("Q")   'I get back a"Q". Simple testing for my comunications
     if data == "b"    'Now when I send a "b". I want it to start a cog that returns data.
       cog := cognew(testing,0)
       pst.dec(data1)
        pst.dec(data2)
       cogstop(cog)       
dat
testing  org 0
         wrlong testData1, data1     ' trying to get data back to the spin program
         wrlong testData2, data2     ' trying to get data back to the spin program
         jmp #testing        
testData1 long 123
testData2 long 456  

I don’t have any problems with the visual basic interface.

No rush on this request.
Very best regards, Steve.

Pliers

Ok, this works.

CON
  _clkmode = xtal1 + pll16x
  _xinfreq = 5_000_000
OBJ
  pst   :  "Parallax Serial Terminal"
var
  byte cog 
  byte Data
  long Data1 
Pub Main
data1 := 7 
pst.Start(56000) 
repeat    
     Data := pst.charin
   if data== "a"     'I send the character "a" from visual basic
    pst.char("Q")   'I get back a"Q". Simple test for my comunications
  if data == "b"    'Now when I send a "b". I want it to start a cog that returns data.
       cog := cognew(@testing,@data1)   'Start a Cog 
       pst.dec(data1)                'Send the data1
       cogstop(cog)                   'Stop the cog
dat
testing  org 0
         mov addr, PAR
         wrlong testData1, addr   'Trying to get data back to the spin program       
         jmp #testing        
testData1 long 123  
addr    res 1                      'PAR address 

To get multiple values out, I will need to do an array.

StefanL38

Hello,

oops ! Parallax changed the look and feel of the forum.
I hope this will not change every week as a new fashion^2

Somehow the getting started sticky-thread vanished

took me some searching to find this again

Assembley-Language-Help-List

I tried to find that PASM-beginner tuotrial that shows how to exchange data between SPIN (=HUB-RAM and PASM (COG-RAM) but I could not find it
EDIT it's more or less hidden behind the Propeller-HYDRA-Key-Thread-Index

best regards

Stefan

Pliers

I thought this would clear things up for me, but it does not work.

var
  long delay 
  byte cog 
  long Data[2] 
Pub Main
  delay := 4000
  Dira[16..23]~~
  data[0] := 0
  data[1] := 1
  cog := cognew(@testing,@data)   
  waitcnt(delay+cnt) 
  cogstop(cog)                       
repeat
  if data[0] == 0
   outa[16]~~    
  if data[1] == 111
   outa[18]~~      
dat
testing  org 0
         mov addr, PAR
         wrlong testData0, addr   
         add addr,#4
         wrlong testData1, addr          
         jmp #testing        
testData0 long 3
testData1 long 111 
addr    res 1

I want LED16 off and LED18 on.
I get LED16 on and LED18 off.

Pliers

I found my mistake.
Now back to conquering the world.

var
  long delay 
  byte cog 
  long Data[2] 
Pub Main
  delay := 400000
  Dira[16..23]~~
  data[0] := 0
  data[1] := 1
  data[2] := 2
  cog := cognew(@testing,@data[0])   
  waitcnt(delay+cnt) 
  cogstop(cog)                       
repeat
  if data[0] == 3
   outa[16]~~    
  if data[1] == 4
   outa[18]~~  
dat
testing  org 0
         mov addr, PAR
         wrlong testData0, addr   
         add addr,#4
         wrlong testData1, addr          
         jmp #testing        
testData0 long 3
testData1 long 4
addr    res 1