Simulation of RXINT (UART) on FC6

[petesmart]

Hello team,

I think I already know the answer to this....does the RXINT interrupt simulate in FC6? If not is there a work around to simulate other jumping to the macro from the main loop?

BTW FC6 is really impressive.. I have been using 2 FC6 instances on the desktop communicating physically via 2 external (physical) zig bee modules using the pc comport injector function, using USB to rs232 converters.

.. It works brilliantly! I am doing most of my work without the need for actual PIC dev boards... Apart for the simulation of Comms interrupt problem, FC6 is very powerful, with injectors, consoles debugger etc..

Best regards
Pete

[Benj]

Hi Pete,

Really glad your liking v6 we put a lot of effort into it and we certainly are loving all the functionality.

Simulating a RX interrupt is a tricky one. What I usually do is put a call to the interrupt macro from the main and this allows me to simulate the RX interrupt. I then remove or disable the macro call when compiling to the hardware.

In the interrupt routine use a timeout of 0 when collecting the incoming value and check for a timeout before acting on the data. This should then work pretty reliably.

I am trying to figure out a way to do this properly but at the moment we would need additional features building in to be able to do it.

[petesmart]

Thanks Ben,

Appreciate the tip on the timeout...

Perhaps RXInt is on the list for V7?

Best

Pete