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'[EE] Another source of USB-UART chips. SPI'
2004\11\10@203051
by
Robert Rolf
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Dave VanHorn wrote:
>
> At 11:57 AM 11/10/2004, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
>
> >Shawn Tan Ser Ngiap wrote:
> >
> >>It has the same performance as the old 232BM FTDI chips.. Hey, I'm
> >>interested to find out if anyone knows if we can use the newer FT2232C to
> >>effectively double our bandwidth??
> >>
> >If a chip like this converts from the PIC UART to USB, how can you
> >increase the bandwidth? It would seem to me that it would still be limited
> >by the speed of the UART. Would you just output on more pins than the
> >PIC's default TX/RX?
>
> Nothing's going to speed up the pic uart.
Well, with 16Mhz and set SPBRG to 0 you get 1000 kbaud.
Pick a nice crystal rate (19.6608Mhz), and you can get nice standard baud rates with bigger SPBRG values.
> All it can affect is speed on the USB bus, or the baud rates that the USB
> chip is capable of.
>
> What would be REALLY nice, is a clocked serial or SPI version, so you don't
> have to wait around for the uart to beedle the data out.
You mean like this?
http://www.ftdichip.com/FTProduct.htm
"The FT2232C is the 3rd generation of FTDI’s popular USB UART / FIFO I.C. family. This device features two Multi-Purpose UART / FIFO controllers which can be
configured individually in several different modes. As well as a UART interface, FIFO interface and Bit-Bang IO modes of the 2nd generation FT232BM and
FT245BM devices, the FT2232C offers a variety of additional new modes of operation, including a Multi-Protocol Synchronous Serial Engine interface which is
designed specifically for synchronous serial protocols such as JTAG and SPI
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bus.
"
> Uarts are not well suited for on-board inter-processor communication.
They cerainly are not, but they can be pushed.
Robert
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2004\11\10@221214
by
Dave VanHorn
>
>Well, with 16Mhz and set SPBRG to 0 you get 1000 kbaud.
>Pick a nice crystal rate (19.6608Mhz), and you can get
>nice standard baud rates with bigger SPBRG values.
With problems.
Can you really run the uart with a divisor of zero?
Can you handle EVERY byte as it comes in at that rate?
Hw HS can be implemented, but that's more and more code.
SPI or clocked serial is inherently self-pacing.
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2004\11\11@044845
by
Mike Harrison
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On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:30:08 -0700, you wrote:
{Quote hidden}>Dave VanHorn wrote:
>>
>> At 11:57 AM 11/10/2004, Ian Smith-Heisters wrote:
>>
>> >Shawn Tan Ser Ngiap wrote:
>> >
>> >>It has the same performance as the old 232BM FTDI chips.. Hey, I'm
>> >>interested to find out if anyone knows if we can use the newer FT2232C to
>> >>effectively double our bandwidth??
>> >>
>> >If a chip like this converts from the PIC UART to USB, how can you
>> >increase the bandwidth? It would seem to me that it would still be limited
>> >by the speed of the UART. Would you just output on more pins than the
>> >PIC's default TX/RX?
>>
>> Nothing's going to speed up the pic uart.
>
>Well, with 16Mhz and set SPBRG to 0 you get 1000 kbaud.
>Pick a nice crystal rate (19.6608Mhz), and you can get
>nice standard baud rates with bigger SPBRG values.
If you mainly need speed _out_ of the PIC you can do faster than using the UART
You can actually get a baudrate equal to the instruction rate if you have a whole port to spare :
; output on PB0
bcf portb,0 ; start bit
movwf portb ; bit 0
rrf portb ; bit 1
rrf portb
rrf portb
rrf portb
rrf portb
rrf portb
rrf portb ; bit 7
bsf portb,0 ; stopbit
If the SPI is set up to auto-generate the clock on each read (can't remember if the PIC will do
this), and you only need handshaking on blocks, you could get a download rate approaching 450
kbytes/sec at 20MHz
The 'wasted' port pins could often be shared when not transmitting, e.g. as inputs or for LCD module
data/address lines.
If you can't spare a whole port, you could get half instruction rate baudrate, e.g. use port E on a
F874, using RE0 as output and RE1/2 as inputs :
rrf datareg
rlf porte
etc....
You could even get some input functionality at this rate , e.g. using input capture and carefully
chosen data values (single consecutive '0' bits), which would be more than adequate for simple 'dump
a big flash chip as fast as possible' type of applications.
Another thing you could do is use an external small PLD to convert the SPI stream into async in
hardware - if you're really clever you could arrange the SPI byte rate to be 10x the bit rate so all
the extarnal hardware has to so is insert start/stopbits - a 16V8 ought to be able to do this.
..or just have the PLD generate the SPI clock for transfers, again this would not need a huge amount
of logic to implement.
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2004\11\11@045126
by
Mike Harrison
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 22:12:33 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>
>>Well, with 16Mhz and set SPBRG to 0 you get 1000 kbaud.
>>Pick a nice crystal rate (19.6608Mhz), and you can get
>>nice standard baud rates with bigger SPBRG values.
>
>With problems.
>Can you really run the uart with a divisor of zero?
>Can you handle EVERY byte as it comes in at that rate?
>Hw HS can be implemented, but that's more and more code.
For large transfers - e.g. read/writing a flash chip, you can usually do it in blocks with
handshaking only between blocks - this greatly simplifies the software and has little impact on
throughput. You could also use a half-duplex protocol to avoid the need for explicit handshaking
altogether - ISTR the FDTI chip has a sizeable buffer so half-duplex would not impact overall speed
too much.
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2004\11\11@075917
by
olin_piclist
Dave VanHorn wrote:
> Can you really run the uart with a divisor of zero?
No, but you have to set the baud rate register to 0 to get a divisor of 1.
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2004\11\11@094434
by
Dave VanHorn
At 07:59 AM 11/11/2004, Olin Lathrop wrote:
>Dave VanHorn wrote:
> > Can you really run the uart with a divisor of zero?
>
>No, but you have to set the baud rate register to 0 to get a divisor of 1.
I suspected there was an "off-by-one" in there somewhere :)
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2004\11\11@144931
by
Wouter van Ooijen
>If a chip like this converts from the PIC UART to USB, how can you
>increase the bandwidth?
Use the FT245BM, and use it with the D2XX drivers.
Wouter van Ooijen
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