Swordfish

Has anybody been successful in getting a PICkit 2 and the GUI to run on Win10? The GUI seems to run, but as soon as you try to load a hex file for even older chips, the response is immediately: Device Error - File Not Loaded The GUI is v2.61, the device file is the latest version - I initially thoug...

Little_Ghost wrote:
The main issue is going to be me! I need to get upto speed on swordfish basic, being old, cranky, bad eyes, bad temper and worn out. This might not be easy .

Not so old! Sometimes a touch cranky, usually with good reason

Thanks Jerry. I'll post more when I have solid info.

Jon

Sorry, I left out a few details that I know. There is a clock signal synchronized with the data stream. I don't know if the clock signal is continuous or available only when data is available. There is also an enable signal that allows the system to clock out the 40 data bits This should function as...

A simple project I agreed to do has turned more complicated. I need to read 40 bits clocked out at 10 MHz. I'm using a PIC18F25k22 with a 16 MHz crystal and 4xPLL enabled for a clock speed of 64 MHz. My first thought was to use shift.bas. Is there any chance this will work at 10 MHz? If it does work...

Yeah, there's not much to go on in that listing, not even the address but fortunately, the default in your code worked for that. I saw these on YouTube and bought them to play with...so there's nothing waiting on them. Another video gives a particular Arduino drive to that gives good results - I'll ...

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The specs are:

I2C 0.91" 128x32 White/Blue OLED LCD Display Module For Arduino PIC

Features:

Driver IC: SSD1306

Size: 0.91 inch OLED

Resolution: 128 x 32

Font Color: white

Voltage: DC 3.3-5V

Thanks for the thoughts Gavin. The driver works perfectly, on the bottom half of the display. Even as the demo program scrolls text across the screen, only the bottom half displays anything. It looks like the vertical size parameter must be using only half the display.

I got a bunch of 132 x 32 OLED displays with this driver. RangerBob's SSD1306 module and demo code work great...except the output is only on the bottom half the display! I'm kind of (totally) lost looking through the driver module. I did find Max_Height and Max_Width constants and tried changing tho...

Yay. SetAllDigital brought the test program to life!

Now I can move on to figuring out what I'm doing. I want to write and read 5 bytes of data at a time - a LongWord timestamp and a byte of data. This shouldn't be hard

Good catch about the analog pins. My original program covers that but in my simplified version to test, I omitted the SetAllDigital command.

I forgot to mention pullups in my original post. 4k7 on SDA and SCL.

I am trying to write/read a 24LC64 EEPROM using a PIC18F25k22 and managing to get nowhere, even using sample code provided with Swordfish. I'm using the 8 pin EEPROM package, with the 3 address pins and the WP pin connected to ground. That makes the address %10100000 = $A0 = 160. In the sample progr...

In this case, setting BRGH and BRG16 did the trick. I'll work on a more universal solution and have a look for your updated USART module. Thanks Jerry! Any feelings on overclocking 18F26K22s to 80MHz? It seems to work but it doesn't seem like best practice, especially for something that may operate ...

For a project I'm working on, the 4x increase in speed with the PLL enabled will be beneficial. I had it enabled with a 20MHz crystal, overclocking the PIC to 80MHz and everything seemed to work fine. Everything until the USART. Even dropping back to a 12MHz crystal (I don't have any 16MHz on hand),...

Somehow the recovery feature wasn't on on my PC. Windows 8.1 does have a "refresh" feature that fairly quickly resets the computer to as-new settings without deleting files. Programs do have to be re-installed however. I did that this morning. The first thing I installed was Chrome. The next Swordfi...