Where to start?

MacTuxLin · 2016-09-02 13:49

Being a late comer to the pre-P2, where is a good place to start? I've a Altera Cyclone III starter board. Read a number of threads but don't seems to see any binary to support this board.

cgracey · 2016-09-02 14:37

Which board do you have?

cgracey · 2016-09-02 14:39

Here's the big thread where FPGA updates are posted:

http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/162298/prop2-fpga-files-updated-16-june-2016-version-10a/p1

rjo__ · 2016-09-02 16:10

Send it back. I have an backup P123 board I can loan you until I destroy my current P123.

This is a perfect time to start. The command set is now in slow drying cement and the second pass at tools is just about done. Very soon, we are going to be in Spin2 Nirvana!!!

MacTuxLin · 2016-09-03 13:04

Its a

cgracey wrote: »

Here's the big thread where FPGA updates are posted:

http://forums.parallax.com/discussion/162298/prop2-fpga-files-updated-16-june-2016-version-10a/p1

OK, my board is not listed. Might be getting the BeMicro CV A9.

MacTuxLin · 2016-09-03 13:06

rjo__ wrote: »

Send it back. I have an backup P123 board I can loan you until I destroy my current P123.

Thanks for the offer but I'm half-way around the globe. I'm seriously looking at BeMicro A9.

Rayman · 2016-09-03 18:07

I think those have been out of stock for a long time...

Publison · 2016-09-03 19:17

Rayman wrote: »

I think those have been out of stock for a long time...

As Ray said, They have been backorder fore quite a while:

https://www.arrow.com/en/products/bemicrocva9/arrow-development-tools

rjo__ · 2016-09-03 23:42

I wasn't planning to bring it myself:)

BeMicro BVery Good.

You need at least two Cogs. There is some stuff in there that you can't use until you have two cogs. In my not so humble opinion, I think that stuff is the absolute best part of everything that is new, so you will want to look at it.

MacTuxLin · 2016-09-04 10:52

Yeap, reading the "Parallax Propeller 2 Documentation" dated 8th July, 2016...

MacTuxLin · 2016-10-17 15:17

Received my Propeller 1-2-3 A9 today. Time to rock&roll!

cgracey · 2016-10-17 18:00

Great!

I've almost the new update ready. I just noticed that the USB smart pin is behaving differently with faster RDPIN/WRPIN logic. I'm trying to figure out why.

MacTuxLin · 2016-10-18 14:54

Cool. Thanks Chip, will try the new image. Downloaded the current one to start....

MacTuxLin · 2016-11-27 13:09

Only really had the time today to read through the thread to actually know how to load the image. Got it done today. Loaded the v13 image & ran the code!

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xCmw-q-_8bQ

cgracey · 2016-11-27 21:09

I'm glad you've got it running.

MacTuxLin · 2016-11-29 15:45

Thanks Chip.

Did up some instructions as I'm pretty sure I'll need it after running my fingers over other dev boards

Don't wanna mess up this one.

cgracey · 2016-11-29 22:11

MacTuxLin wrote: »

Thanks Chip.

Did up some instructions as I'm pretty sure I'll need it after running my fingers over other dev boards Don't wanna mess up this one.

The board is pretty forgiving. You're not going to hurt anything by doing things out of order and there's no need to power down to reload code. Mine is on all the time and the only thing that moves is the RUN/PGM switch.

Tubular · 2016-11-29 22:15

Nice work on the instructions. This stuff is basic, once its all running, but can be a head scratcher until that point

rjo__ · 2016-12-01 01:14

Nice.

I have found it very useful to have a helper P1 board hooked up with a dedicated serial line to the P2v.
That way if I have working code on the P1, I don't have to immediately try to translate it to the P2v, and I can concentrate my P2v work on stuff that isn't possible with the P1... which is much more fun than slavishly translating P1 code!

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