serial cog loader

rjo__

This is so simple I couldn't believe it myself:)

And if it weren't for Rayman's work and Chip's loader, I would never have seen it!!
Thanks guys.

getSerialobj
               call    #rcv_char  
               mov whichcog,rx_char
               call    #rcv_char  
               setbyte numbytes,rx_char,#2
               call    #rcv_char  
               setbyte numbytes,rx_char,#1
               call    #rcv_char  
               setbyte numbytes,rx_char,#0
               wrfast  #0,#0  

.nextbytes     call #rcv_char
               wfbyte rx_char
               djnz numbytes,#.nextbytes
               coginit whichcog,##0
		ret

the test object is the compiled version of this

dat
		orgh	0
'
'
' blink
'
		org
              
		
blink		cogid	x		'which cog am I?
		setb	dirb,x		'make that pin an output
       		notb	outb,x		'flip its output state
		add	x,#16		'add to my id
		shl	x,#18		'shift up to make it big
		waitx	x		'wait that many clocks
		jmp	#blink		'do it again

x		res	1

the loader expects a byte containing the cog number, then three bytes representing the byte count ... and then the raw output of the obj file. I don't stop the cog first... so if you want you can get all of the empty cogs blinking by repeatedly loading the same file.


Makes me happier than.... you know:)

rjo__

On the computer side of things, I have Processing 3 handling the file.

public void obj2serial() {
  // Open a file and read its binary data 
  String path = "C:/Users/Public/p2/all_cogs_blinkexp.obj";
  byte obj[] = loadBytes(path); 
  myPort.write(115);
  myPort.write(14);   //which cog
  int objbytes = obj.length;
  byte tempbyte=byte(objbytes >> 16 & 0xff) ;
  myPort.write(tempbyte);
  tempbyte=byte(objbytes >> 8 & 0xff) ;
  myPort.write(tempbyte);
 tempbyte=byte(objbytes & 0xff) ;
  myPort.write(tempbyte);
  // Print each value, from 0 to 255 
  for (int kya = 0; kya < obj.length; kya++) { 

    // bytes are from -128 to 127, this converts to 0 to 255 
    myPort.write( obj[kya]); 
    print(obj[kya]);
  } 
  // Print a blank line at the end 
  println(); 
  println(obj.length);
}