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Hello Dan

The only difference between the old CAN component and the new CAN2 component is that CAN2 accepts sending /masking /receiving of the extended CAN message identifiers as well as the standard indentifiers.

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Ok where did you find that piece of code. Im guessing that the BoostC library is missing a few definitions for that particular chip and adding those lines of code will allow the PWM registers to be addressed correctly.

Hello Your LCD is a KS0108 type display. You should be able to use the KS0108 Beta Component to drive the display correctly. The pinout must just be changed around slightly. Use the pin connections that are defined at the top of the custom_code.c file to work out where pins are connected to. eg RS p...

Hello You should be able to make your new parrallel port emulate the base address 378 etc. You can do this by right clicking my computer, selecting properties, clicking the hardware tab and then selecting device manager. Once you have the device manager running scroll down to the ports section and o...

Hello Tutorial 32 from the Flowcode V3/Examples folder might help you to create the basic program. Basically you would just need to create a while loop to run 4 times. Each time round the loop wait until a key has been pressed on the keypad, Once the key has been pressed save the keypress to the EEP...

Hello I have just tried the PWM component here using the latest version of FLowcode and 2 PWM channels are being shown. Please can you try replacing the 18F4680 definition file for your Flowcode by copying the attached file into your Flowcode V3/FCD directory. Let me know if this helps your situation.

Hello Ok 255 is an 8-bit value which equals 8 logic 1s or an entire port. See conversions from decimal to binary. You can control the brightness by switching the output on and off at high speed. See my example for bit banged PWM. http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/Flowcode_Examples.php As for your sche...

Hello If you have enough free memory in your device then you could always define the array as a static size eg char data_array[4]; or static char data_array[4]; Some compilers do support the malloc function so you will need to find the correct compiler or library that supports the malloc statement. ...

Hello You are right about your LED flashing program that is the best way to get the device working correctly. 1) Set you clock speed in Flowcode - This sets the length of delays etc relative to the device clock. Chip -> Clock Speed -> Set to 4000000 2) Set your oscillator configuration in Flowcode -...

Hello Beejo It seems unlikly that you will have damaged your device by using the 270 Ohm resistor. We use a 220 ohm resistor here for all our E-Blocks to avoid damaging the microcontrollers. Aswell as this the microcontrollers are tough little devices and you will be pushed to acutally damage an I/O...

Hello Chris Create a macro to output the data you need. Eg create a macro with 6 send RS232 component macro icons. the first sends the data from variable 1 the second sends a comma The third sends the data from variable 2 the fourth sends a comma ... This way you can simply update the global variabl...

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Look inside your Flowcode_AVR folder. Normally C:/Program Files/Matrix Multimedia/Flowcode_AVR. You will find a folder named examples containing 34 example files.

Hello Please post in the appropriate places on the forum, Also please do not repeat the same posts around the forum it just makes more work for me. The PWM component directly controls the I/O pins referred to as CCP1 and CCP2 (if you have a device with 2 channel PWM) on the chip diagram. No input or...

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Please refer to the motor control article.

http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/mmforum ... =26&t=4849

Hello Wayne Firstly the program is written in assembler so it is 100% efficient if the programmer is good at what he's doing. In my opinion assembler is not the way forward. Secondly he uses a interrupt to trigger the RS232 read function. Maybe this would help to stop missing the incoming data bytes...

Hello Wayne

Please refer to the article I created in the Knowledge Exchange section of the forum entitled Communicating with a PC.

http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/mmforum ... m.php?f=26

Hello The best way to check if your PIC is working is to create a very simple program to toggle an LED inside an infinite loop. Make sure your Oscillator settings are correct in the Chip -> Configuration window, Make sure your speed setting is correct in the Chip -> Clock speed window and make sure ...

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What is the type of gLCD that you are using. If you have a link to a datasheet etc then that would be handy.

Hello Wayne Thats a tricky one. Does changing the interrupt prescalar have any effect on your ability to detect the start of the string. Maybe also try adjusting the timeout on your RS232 recieve function to see if this helps. It may be that to do this 100% correctly you may have to use a chip with ...

Hello An RB0 interrupt in Flowcode occurs when you switch the logic level from pin RB0 from low to high or visa versa depending on your interrupt enable properties. To switch the RB0 input from high to low you are going to need an external pull up or pull down resistor. Eg here is a typical circuit ...

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In your timer enable icon you need to change the properties to count pulses on the CLKI rather then the T0CKI Input. This should get the PWM interrupt working for you.

Hello Danny Firstly to remove the USB write failed problem please follow this support FAQ. http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/support/viewtopic.php?t=508 With the write failed error, the latest version of the programming tool will remove this problem. (Note the problem is just a warning it does not aff...

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Check the settings in Flowcode under Chip -> Configure. you will need to change the oscillator type to XTAL (simple mode) or HS (expert mode).

1K resistor should be fine for your MCLR pin. Ive also had problems with non ceramic caps on the oscillator in the past.

Hello It would actually be fairly hard to implement what you are suggesting. Basically the program would have to scan through all the delay values for that particular step, find the shortest delay, perform the tasks that all start at once, perform the delay, perform the specific task and then delay ...

http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/images/Article_NoStudent.png MP3 players are very popular in today's technology market and come in many shapes and sizes. Using the MMC/SD card reader E-block EB037 it is possible to incorporate files straight into the microcontroller devices ready for streaming out ...