how to control the incoming data?

[zx81sp]

How can I control when data is incoming? I have a pcb with Max232 and it sends/receive data, this is a portion of the code:

'Waits 200ms until 129 is received, then store next byte in I, if timeout jump to M2
           SERIN SERIAL_IN,BPS,200,M2,[129],I

This works ok but I loose 200ms waiting for data and that PCB needs to control more things, so it becomes slooooooooow. If I change it to 100ms it loose commands, if I use 500ms it works perfect, but then the rest of the code has no time to do its job.

I can't use interrupts because the PCB uses PORTB.7 for SERIAL_IN.

I've tried a "stupid way" (and obviosly it does not works):

     if SERIAL_IN=0 then       'something is changin in the RX PORT
'Waits 200ms until 129 is received, then store next byte in I, if timeout jump to M2
           SERIN SERIAL_IN,BPS,200,M2,[129],I
    endif

but the data received usually is corrupted. Then I've tried to repeat the commands from the PC (129-22-129-22) but also does not works ok.

Any idea of how can I make this works better?

Regards

[Ioannis]

Yes there is an excellent way and is called DT-Instant Interrupts!

Ioannis

[zx81sp]

Yes there is an excellent way and is called DT-Instant Interrupts!

Ioannis

But that way is intended to use the INT port. I'm using a PCB with 16F628A, INT=RB0, and the port I must observe is RB7, so I can not see how to use Darrel's way

[Ioannis]

It seems you do not read, or not read carefully.

Your PIC has USART.

USART has Interrupt that has nothing to do with PORTB.0 INT interrupt.

Darrels Interrupts cover all possible Interrupt sources of a PIC. You just have to enable th appropriate interrupt.

Example follows. On a terminal press key "1" to see the effect. (Not tested...)

INCLUDE "DT_INTS-14.bas"     ' Base Interrupt System
INCLUDE "ReEnterPBP.bas"     ' Include if using PBP interrupts

':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
ASM
INT_LIST  macro    ; IntSource,        Label,  Type, ResetFlag?
	INT_Handler   RX_INT,	 _Get_char,	 PBP,  yes
endm
INT_CREATE               ; Creates the interrupt processor
ENDASM

':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::       

@ INT_ENABLE  RX_INT	   ; enable UART RX interrupt


loop:
if mybyte="1" then
    hserout "I got it!"
    mybyte=0
endif
goto loop


'---[USART RX Interrupt handler]----------------------------------------------------
Get_char:
	hserin 100,noreceived,[mybyte]	'Get byte
noreceived:                         'or if timeout return
@ INT_RETURN

Ioannis

P.S. As a homework do set the USART parameters with DEFINE's to 9600

[zx81sp]

It seems you do not read, or not read carefully.

Your PIC has USART.

USART has Interrupt that has nothing to do with PORTB.0 INT interrupt.

Darrels Interrupts cover all possible Interrupt sources of a PIC. You just have to enable th appropriate interrupt.

I'm not english spoken, but USART is on RB.1 (RX), I can not use that PIN, just RB.6 for incoming data, and RB.6 as far as I know, can not be managed with interrupts.

It's a finished PCB and I'm trying to add some features, but can't change the hardware, otherwise this problem will be very easy to solve, still don't know hoy can DT-Interrupts can be applied here

Regards

[Luckyborg]

i don' know if your application will allow for it, but you can try adding polling throughout your code to have smaller wait times during the check and look for and use the wait command in serin2

main:
... normal stuff
gosub get_data
... more normal stuff
gosub get_data
...
 more normal stuff
goto main

get_data:

serin2 Serial_IN, 84, 50, nodata, [wait (129), x]
nodata:
return

If you can adjust your transmitting device add a bunch of dummy spaces before the transmission so if you miss 1 or 2 no big deal, you weren't going to use them anyway. I''ve used something similar in the past.