Data corrupterd when using serout command

[johnson]

dear all,

I have some problems dealing with interfacing between pic16f628a and pc's hyper-terminal. My code is as follow:




INCLUDE "modedefs.bas"
testvalue var byte
pause 3000

'
'other code
'
'

SEROUT PORTB.2,T2400,["hello"] 'sending the string "hello"
SEROUT PORTB.2,T2400,["123"]
SEROUT PORTB.2,T2400,["abc"]

main:
serin PORTB.1,T2400,testvalue 'waiting for 1 byte of data and store it
'in testvalue
SEROUT PORTB.2,T2400,[testvalue]
goto main



Whenever I power up my PIC, the 1st byte of data sent will be corrupted(which shown in hyper terminal), however the rest of the data are correct. I wonder why??? Anyone got solution???

ps: i'm using pic16f628's, tx and rx is connected to hin232




thanks,

cheer:>

[Melanie]

There's a whole heap of reasons...

Try this...

Loop:
SEROUT PORTB.2,T2400,[REP $00\8,"hello "] 'sending the string "hello"
SEROUT PORTB.2,T2400,["123 "]
SEROUT PORTB.2,T2400,["abc",13,10]
Pause 1000
Goto Loop

Have you now got clean transmission?

Those NULS $00 sent at the start are there to push any line garbage lurking in your comms link away. Also, if you're not using a Resonator or Crystal oscillator, then 2400 baud can produce significant errors - especially at start up, and it can take a few bits for the PC's USART to sync-up if it's right at the edge of timing tollerance.

Melanie

[johnson]

thanks man, I am trying the way as u stated :>

[johnson]

hi i got some doubt:

what is the syntax "$00\8" means? I got compilation error "error line 6: expected "]", where line 6 is:

SEROUT PORTB.2,T2400,[$00\8,"hello "] 'sending the string "hello"


help please,


thanks,

[Melanie]

Sorry, my omission of the word REP... I've corrected it.

[TONIGALEA]

What does REP do?
Is this in the manual?

Toni

[Melanie]

REP c\n

Repeat character c, n times...

In the manual in at least four places... DEBUG, LCDOUT, SEROUT, SEROUT2... and in list of Reserved Words.

[TONIGALEA]

Thanks for pointing that out.

[L_Gaminde]

This is something that used to come up a lot
just before your pause 3000 put in

high portb.2

you could even change the pause 3000 to

pause 500

this should take care of all your problems

Is there a spell checker for this forum ??

[NavMicroSystems]

Melanie,

As there are more and more questions regarding serial comunication we should put some "How To's" together and post it in the FAQ category.

There appears to be a lot of confusion about the different modes (TRUE/INVERTED), Baud rate vs. clock speed etc.

regards

Ralph

[Melanie]

Yup, I agree. It's a question of finding time to do it all... nothing stopping other folks contributing to the FAQ... however Serial Comms is a major subject, and not something that gets covered in a couple of paragraphs and ten lines of code. Just for starters, you can do comms between two PICs a dozen different ways, and them some... it's one of those subjects that has so many variables, that what works brilliantly for one application, ends up totally inappropriate for another.

[NavMicroSystems]

Melanie,

If there is some FTP-space on the server we could start writing a "HowTo" and share that Document using FTP.

Once we think it covers everything it will go to the FAQ section as PDF.

regards