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Well, Ben, thanks for your reply. It sounds rather promising...

Hello and good day to all,
I am humbly asking if the following micros could be included into the list of supported devices, or if there are workaround tricks I could employ to create a code and compile to those chips:
PIC10F322
PIC16F527
Thanks in advance.

Hello all, @Martin. I ended up introducing a 1sec delay into IOC routine along with level check to see if zero. Now it is the way I wanted it to work with no glitches whatsoever. Otherwise, the interrupt way is super sensitive and quick, I had to slow it down. I also introduced a bit of smoothing an...

@Martin, Thanks for your smartly designed flowchart, great example. It is much appreciated and was quite educational for me. I tried to use similar techniques and it actually worked well in hardware. For now I stick with edge detection within ISR, which gives acceptable results. I discovered another...

It is pretty late in here. I have to switch myself off and GO TO SLEEP mode.
Thanks for all your input and nice comments. My eyes are shutting down...
Later.

@Martin
True enough, same as mine, but I try to perfect myself and be more disciplined as this subject requires attention to details
No problem at all.
Fun all it is !

@Martin
Oh, forgot to ask... Did you mention 12F647 and it was not any typo? I found it hard to find part...

Thanks Martin, And yes, this way works too, confirmed on hardware. The only problem is likely my button is bouncing too much so it's picky sometimes and causing the system not to go into a proper mode. Now I am trying to avoid using any delays in my flowchart, if I can. Rather use some tricks with t...

One thing I have tried to prevent triggers on negative edge is to introduce a significant delay within int. routine. Of course this would not be a preferred way and may cause undesired effects. Could you suggest a more elegant way or give example based on my above posted file?

Hello Medelec35 and all,
You are as helpful as always has been.
I will keep playing at it.
Thanks for your support!

Hello again, I looked in the datasheet and found something that could explain the complexity and/or difficulty of what I am trying to achieve. The link to the datasheet is here: http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/devicedoc/41190c.pdf Please look at the page 14. It says that INTEDG (Interrupt Edge...

Hello guys! I found myself pulling hair and scratching my head over the same obstacle of how to properly select the edge on which interrupt occurs within 12F675 micro. When I set an INT on PORT, there is only option to either select or unselect pins, which triggers INT on both edges. However there a...

Oh, thanks for the tip. I did check and it looked like this chip is not yet listed as supported.
It will probably take a while until we will see it in the list and for now I have to stick to the older stuff.

Hello there all!
Could somebody share/submit a descriptor file for the newly released PIC16F527? This will be much wanted/needed and appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Hello guys, Steve in particular. Thanks for the tips! It is most useful help to see the examples. I still have more questions coming into mind. Since EEPROM definitely can be used and preloaded with user data, is it easier to use external I2C connected EEPROM chip? Will the compiled hex contain data...

Hello all! I am trying to get a simple code working which reads values from chip's built-in EEPROM. When I manually enter EEPROM values into each location shown on panel, simulation works fine. But resulting compiled hex does not contain any EEPROM data or else I am doing it all wrong. Could anybody...

Hello all again, Unfortunately this interrupt thing is not working right. I tried different ways and still could not get it to work correctly. It seems flaky/unstable/unpredictable. I am tired of this meaningless battle over a simple matter, honestly. Simple things work, but as soon as you take it t...

Hello guys and gals(if any),
I have not been able to test anything out yet. Thanks to all for your valuable input and support.
I might have a chance tonight and will let you know the results.
Best.

Hello all, @Martin: Thank you. I will test this out tonight, if my little one spares me some time to do it...;-) @Ben: Thanks for pointing this out. I believe binary looks more readable and visually appealing. One question here, do the MSB relate to the the highest port#, and, since there's only six...

Hello again, @Martin: A little correction here. Somehow, when I tested interrupts, the compiler would not compile and complain about missing semicolon (112 or 119, not sure what this means, possibly line in the code) if all interrupts are masked out except GP3. The same chart would compile fine if I...

Thank you Martin so much for constructive response. Your help is much appreciated. It is hard to account for all possible options and configuration settings within Flowcode, so learning a bit of C coding and/or Assembly sure helps to fill this void ;-). As always, the more questions I ask the more c...

Hello Martin, Great! Thanks for the perfect tip. I have to admit, there was some sort of bizarre accident, that made the SMD resistor (tied to ground from the button) to change value to the point where GP3 was not triggered because of residual voltage on the closed button. I measured and discovered ...

Hello all again, I tried in vain and reviewed my flowchart, hardware and what else. I still cannot get it to run properly as intended in hardware. Tried inserting ASM lines of code to intitialize registers and configure chip manually - did not succeed. I am clueless what the problem is. Any experts ...

Hello all, @Steve: I am willing to give it real world test on hardware very soon. Will report results back later. I have some VFDs by Noritake sitting around, which have two switchable modes 4 and 8 bit. So far I was able to run an LCD with a simple test flowchart, the only trick was to wire it prop...

Hello Ben, The problem seems to be that I can read state of the input of pin4 in simulation, but not in hardware, hence using interrupt will not work either. The flowchart works in simulation nicely, with the exception of interrupt (if modified to utilize it). I hope it is clear, otherwise please as...