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RE: Major breakthrough serial wise.
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Sat, 3 Jun 2000 13:32:51 GMT
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Soirry for the late reply, I've been on a sudden business
trip and was unable to get to my email...
> I have been fiddling with serial interrupts with little
> success. Today I finally figured out that interrupts
> are masked in the CCR until you run the word RCX_INIT.
> I was blindly assuming that interrupts were generally
> enabled and I only had to deal with serial stuff.
Great! I would leave the basic serial stuff alone and enable
interrupt driven serial IO in a separate set of words, like
RCX_INIT and SERVO_INIT etc. Maybe something that means
interrupt-driver serial init, but my brain can't think
of a good word. SERIAL_INIT maybe, but it does not imply
the interrupt driven part...
> Now I have to think about the correct place to clear
> that bit. Ralph, do you think it is safe to enable
> interrupts earlier? Normally I would initialize the
> state of all devices that might generate an interrupt
> before clearing a general mask bit but here we don't
> want to muck with much device state that might be
> depended on by firmware.
I agree. See above.
> PS. My IR connection stinks. It is seldom that I can
> upload more that 5 lines of script without at least one
> error. I don't completely understand what is happening.
Is this normally, or with your serial code?
> It won't be just one bad byte. An entire string will
> be wrong. My workaround is to only define words
> in a script and then download several times till everything
> gets defined, jiggling with the positions of RCX and
> tower inbetween.
Do you have another source of IR in the room, like a security
monitor?
> Very annoying. What is strange is that
> the echo in the window is bad. This is generated by the
> tower and probably has nothing to do with the RCX except
> as a source of reflections. I don't understand how
> reflections can cause problems. It is not like we are
> dealing with current speed. IR is moving at the speed of
> light (it is light) eand all reflections basically get
> there at the same time at 2400 baud speeds. It isn't the
> normal signal broadening and overshoot that electrical
> reflections cause. As far as I can guess it must be a
> signal intensity problem eithor 0 or 1 or both.
Hmmm. I'd check the batteries. I use a 9V cheater that I really
should publish some pictures of...
Cheers,
Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
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| (...) I'm confusing everybody by asking questions that imply that I am changing existing code. I do not touch existing code. The question about where to enable the interrupt is a final cleanup one. It is not what I am doing now. I have not touched (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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| I have been fiddling with serial interrupts with little success. Today I finally figured out that interrupts are masked in the CCR until you run the word RCX_INIT. I was blindly assuming that interrupts were generally enabled and I only had to deal (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jun-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.pbforth)
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