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I use the 12F1840 which does have only 8 pins. I have to work at maximum speed of 32 MHz. To debug the program I send with RS232 (Tx only) to an other microcontroller (Rx only) which shows the data on LCD. I send both strings and numbers. But up to now, I do not succeed in showing all RS232 data correct.

Can someone helps me?


Kind regards

Jan Lichtenbelt

Hi Jan,

Have you tried to look at the data sent from your 12F PIC ? Does it send every byte you want him to send correctly ?
If so, then it's probably something wrong with the receiver.

Nicolas

Dear Nicolas,

How can I test if the data are correctly sent, other then with a receiver?

Jan Lichtenbelt

The issue to me sounds like Buad rate may be out a bit.
So to answer your question:
What I do is send U (must be upper case)
I then measure with a scope, or just lately been using Test pod which is ideal!

If you set to trigger on negative edge pulse then the baud rate is 1/time duration of pulse.

If you have a waveform measuring device and would like to post results we maybe able to take it from there.

I will try at 32MHZ and send strings, and see if I can assist you further by suggesting setting you may be able to tweak.

Is is software or hardware generated RS232?

Also you tried sending directly to comms on PC to chech tx side rather than a separate microcontroller?

Martin

Dear Martin

1) I use software RS232, because 12F1840 does not have the hardware available. (Correction later on: It is available)

2) I will try the scope.

3) The sender12F1840 works at the internal 32 MHz oscillator (not exact I think). The receiver can not use this frequency, because the LCD does not work any more (all delays times will be reduced a factor 2 at 32 MHz). The receiver has to work at 16 MHz.
Can it be that the deviation of the exact frequencies (32MHz sender, 16 MHz receiver) can give problems with correct receiving data? My only results up to now were with 38400 baud for the sender and 19200 baud for the receiver. Lower values failed. I do not know why.
But the 38400 baud rate does not work under Flowcode V5 (see elsewhere). So I had to go down to 19200 respectively 9600 baud rates.

Kind regards

Jan Lichtenbelt

If the LCD display is slow, initialize more than once.

Dear Martin,

Please find my measurements of the RS232 outputs

Time Time Time
RS232 RS232 PIC calculated measured difference
PIC baud frequ frequ osc. usec usec %
16F690 4800 19660800 19660800 ext. 208 214 2,7
16F690 4800 19660800 8000000 int 512 516 0,8
12F1840 4800 19660800 32000000 int 128 130 1,6

All measured values within the accuracy of an oscilloscope.

The repeating time is 10x the values above. That means that the deviation of about 2% will not give wrong results?

Kind regards

Jan Lichtenbelt

PS. the layout of the table is lost. Therefor I added the better xls attachment.

Jan Lichtenbelt wrote:Dear Nicolas,

How can I test if the data are correctly sent, other then with a receiver?

Jan Lichtenbelt

You could use a logic analyzer or a PC scope that has a built in analyzer.

Please find the oscilloscope picture of two microcontrollers, both sending the character "1"


1)UPPER: 12F1840 32 MHz int. oscillator, 4800 baud
2)LOWER: 16F690 8 MHz int. oscillator, 19200 baud

Pay attention: The third peak just in the middle is no peak at all (just introduced by triggering problems).

This seems workable settings to me. Now the flowcode program.

Kind regards

Jan Lichtenbelt

Perhaps I have to use the RS232 hardware with auto-baud detect.

Does someone has the C-program for me for this auto-baud detect?

Kind regards

Jan Lichtenbelt