If anyone has a BS1 Stamp please read last post in this thread.

metron9

I am working on a 2 wire device to interface with basic stamps using the shiftout and shiftin commands for error control. Basically the device receives data commands from a stamp in 8 bit bursts using shiftout. I use a timeout for the maximum time to wait from the first interrupt (start of the first bit out of the stamp) to the 8th bit. It defaults to allow sending 8 bits at a time. To send 16 bits I measure the time it takes to send 8 bits and then set the timeout to that plus a small amount. The device will automatically calibrate to any of the stamps that are faster than the BS2 but I need to know if my interrupt timer value can go high enough (higher is slower) to allow the BS1 to also use the device.

So specifically the bs2 I measure from the first clock rising signal to the last (8th) clock falling signal about 433uS

I need the time for this on the BS1

I guess I better find out the fastest stamp time as well. For this I will also need the low time between the 8th bit clock falling to the 9th bit rising signal for a 16bit shift.

Thanks

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Post Edited (metron9) : 4/18/2007 2:47:06 PM GMT

Mike Green

The BS1 doesn't have a SHIFTIN or SHIFTOUT command. The "bit banging" has to be done with multiple statements. You might look at sample programs for a variety of SPI devices that Parallax sells to see if any of the comments in the routines talk about maximum speeds.

metron9

Ahhh I should have realized that. I wont even bother then.
Ahhh i see the help file has the times for all the stamps.

Looks like it will work with an 8mhz internal oscillator even on the fastest stamp. I shall proceed. Thanks Mike

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metron9

I decided to try and make the device I am working on work with the BS1 as well so I do need someone who has a basic stamp 1 to help me out here.

Could someone run this code (change it to run on the BS1 I don't have one) and tell me the maximum time from the first high to the last high signal on pin 1 (clock pin) by the way the extra HIGH 0 is in there to make the timing for both high and low almost the same. As long as $FF is longer then $00 for output it will sync to the data stream.

This bit banging takes 60mS on the BS2

' {$STAMP BS2}
' {$PBASIC 2.0}
' {$PORT COM2}

OUTPUT 0

dbyte VAR Byte
temp VAR Byte

dbyte=255      'the byte to shift out
GOSUB shifto
END

Shifto:
temp=128
shiftolp
IF dbyte & temp >0 THEN bithigh
HIGH 1
LOW 1
LOW 0
DEBUG DEC temp,CR
temp=temp/2
IF temp<>0 THEN shiftolp
RETURN
bithigh:
HIGH 0        'extra command to make both high and low the same amount of time
HIGH 0
HIGH 1
LOW 1
LOW 0
temp=temp/2
 DEBUG DEC temp,CR
IF temp<>0 THEN shiftolp
RETURN

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