newbee question, parallel out?

Del Ogren

Howdy, folks,

I'm a retired embeded systems programmer.· I bought a basic stamp development system
just to have something to fool around with when I get tired of working on other things.
Now I find that I have a job...

A friend of a friend is writing a PhD thesis on elephant communications and wants me
to make a low frequency audio tone generator.· No problem in Pbasic if I stick to square
waves, but I'd like to reduce the high frequency harmonics.· So I thought about driving
an R2R resistor network D/A converter.· But then, looking through the Pbasic manual,
I couldn't find any way to shove a nibble or a byte at the I/O pins in one statement.

Can this be done by writing into RAM?· Should I consider PWM?· Or should I just go
with square waves and a big cap to suck out the higher frequencies?

BTW..· I'd kinda like the frequency to be good to within 10 Hz or so..

Any guidance would be appreciated.

tnx,
--del

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PJAllen

Del Ogden said...
·looking through the Pbasic manual,
I couldn't find any way to shove a nibble or a byte at the I/O pins in one statement.

BS2, et al. parallels out just fine.

' {$STAMP BS2}
' {$PBASIC 2.5}
 
DIRS = $00ff             ' P15-P08 = INs. P7-P0 = OUTs
OUTL = %00000000         ' all outputs to 0

parallel VAR byte
 
FOR parallel = 0 TO 255  ' this will rifle through $00-FF
OUTL = parallel
next
 
parallel = %11110000     ' here's $F0
OUTL = parallel
 
parallel = %00001111     ' here's $0F
OUTL = parallel
 
END

Post Edited (PJ Allen) : 4/30/2006 1:37:55 AM GMT

Del Ogren

Great! Thanks PJ,

Now I get the syntax...

You helped me RTFM..

--del

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