Activity Board Testing Request

DavidZemon

I'm making changes to adcACpropab.c and adcACpropab.cogc in the Learn folder in order for PropWare to be capable of utilizing those files. Unfortunately, I don't have an Activity Board to test my changes with. Is there anyone out there that has an Activity Board and would be willing to test a binary for me? The attached binary is running the following code, taken from libadcACpropab.c in the Learn folder, and I only need you to tell me if the program is operating correctly (should simply print the ADC value repeatedly)

int i = 0;                                  // Index variable
while(1)                                    // Loop repeats indefinitely
{
  print("adcVal[%d] = %d%c\n", i,          // Display raw ADC
          adcVal[i], CLREOL); 
  pause(100);                               // Wait 1/10 s
   i++;                                      // Add 1 to index
  if(i == 4)                                // After index = 3
  {
    i = 0;                                  // Reset to zero
    print("%c", HOME);                     // Cursor home
  }  
}

Publison

Don't know C much, but here is off Activity Board

DavidZemon

@Publison, did you copy and paste the code and compile in SimpleIDE or did you load the binary that I attached?

DavidZemon

I edited my original post to make it a little more obvious that I'm asking for the attached binary blob to be tested, not for someone to compile anything via SimpleIDE.

Publison

OK, the blob is not associated with any tool, so I may not have the tools installed.

Publison

Not sure how to download .elf file.

DavidZemon

propeller-load allows downloading binaries to a Prop. You can build it from source here or it also comes shipped along with propgcc, which can be downloaded here.

Publison

Sorry, not involved with GCC. I'll have to bow out.

mindrobots

David, if I get a chance this evening, I can test it. I know where an Activity board is and I think I have SimpleIDE installed someplace.

DavidZemon

mindrobots wrote: »

David, if I get a chance this evening, I can test it. I know where an Activity board is and I think I have SimpleIDE installed someplace.

Much appreciated!

Publison wrote: »

Sorry, not involved with GCC. I'll have to bow out.

PropellerIDE probably comes with something too. Not sure if its propeller-load or something similar.

Publison

Unfortunately, I do not have any QT stuff installed. When I get the time, who has any of that? ) I'll try it again.

David Betz

DavidZemon wrote: »

propeller-load allows downloading binaries to a Prop. You can build it from source here or it also comes shipped along with propgcc, which can be downloaded here.

David: Why not post a .binary file instead of a .elf file. You can generate one using the propeller-load -e option.

Publison

David Betz wrote: »

DavidZemon wrote: »

propeller-load allows downloading binaries to a Prop. You can build it from source here or it also comes shipped along with propgcc, which can be downloaded here.

David: Why not post a .binary file instead of a .elf file. You can generate one using the propeller-load -e option.

Good call David!

DavidZemon

David Betz wrote: »

DavidZemon wrote: »

propeller-load allows downloading binaries to a Prop. You can build it from source here or it also comes shipped along with propgcc, which can be downloaded here.

David: Why not post a .binary file instead of a .elf file. You can generate one using the propeller-load -e option.

Okay, turns out it's the "-s" option not "-e"

Here ya go

David Betz

DavidZemon wrote: »

David Betz wrote: »

DavidZemon wrote: »

propeller-load allows downloading binaries to a Prop. You can build it from source here or it also comes shipped along with propgcc, which can be downloaded here.

David: Why not post a .binary file instead of a .elf file. You can generate one using the propeller-load -e option.

Okay, turns out it's the "-s" option not "-e"

Here ya go

Ah yes, sorry! It's -s to create a "Spin binary".

Publison

With the .bin I get. Is that was you expect?

mindrobots

This is all being done under Windows10.

This is not encouraging for the C world. I have a Win10 laptop that has never had SimpleIDE installed. so I installed RC2 from the Learn pages per the instructions and updated the libraries and all that worked fine,

This gave me the "Updated 12-29-2014: Windows: 1.0 RC2" version of SimpleIDE and I updated to the Updated 11-07-2014 version of the Learn library. This all appears to be the latest and greatest available that I can find on the Parallax site. (This is still a problem and I'll open up another thread about this.)

I went to load your .elf file and got the following error:

E:\>dir *.elf
Volume in drive E is DOCK-SSD
Volume Serial Number is 9697-BFE5

Directory of E:\

01/02/2016 06:56 PM 21,336 libadcACpropab.elf
1 File(s) 21,336 bytes
0 Dir(s) 238,481,633,280 bytes free

E:\>propeller-load -e -r -t libadcACPropab.elf
Propeller Version 1 on COM11
error: this program requires a newer version of propeller-load
error: failed to open elf file
error: load failed

So, SimpleIDE RC2 isn't using the latest and greatest propeller-load. I'll see if I have a newer propeller-load installed someplace to try the .elf file.

Now, I'm not sure where to head with this if I want to use the tools on this Windows laptop and keep a working environment. This will all be discussed in another thread.

Using the Propeller Tool to load the .binary you created, I get this output:

adcVal[0] = 2098

adcVal[1] = -1

adcVal[2] = 2101

adcVal[3] = -1

The adcVal[0] and adcVal[2] values change but stay around 2098-2102.

dgately

David

Here's my result:

$ propeller-load -r -t libadcACpropab.binary 
Propeller Version 1 on /dev/cu.usbserial-DAWSSR65
Loading libadcACpropab.binary to hub memory
8544 bytes sent                  
Verifying RAM ... OK
[ Entering terminal mode. Type ESC or Control-C to exit. ]
adcVal[0] = 1261

adcVal[1] = -1

adcVal[2] = 2099

adcVal[3] = -1

adcVal[0] = 2098

adcVal[1] = -1

adcVal[2] = 2101

adcVal[3] = -1

adcVal[0] = 2098

...   <== keeps going, giving similar results

dgately

DavidZemon

Thank you both. This looks good to me and should do well enough for Andy, or whomever reviews my pull request.

Andy Lindsay (Parallax)

Hi David,

Just to be a little OCD, I also tested it with the Measure Volts and Set Volts, and both worked great. I'll merge your changes; thanks so much!

Andy

DavidZemon

Andy Lindsay (Parallax) wrote: »

Hi David,

Just to be a little OCD, I also tested it with the Measure Volts and Set Volts, and both worked great. I'll merge your changes; thanks so much!

Andy

Excellent! That means (as far as I know) PropWare is 100% source-code compatible with the Simple libraries and SimpleIDE (excluding Spin). If it compiles in SimpleIDE, it should compile with PropWare.