MEL PICBASIC Forum - mel PIC BASIC Pro https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/ Discussion area for microEngineeringLabs Pic Basic Pro Compiler en Sat, 07 Mar 2026 08:07:11 GMT vBulletin 60 https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/images/misc/rss.png MEL PICBASIC Forum - mel PIC BASIC Pro https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/ WORDs count at compile/assembly time https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27111-WORDs-count-at-compile-assembly-time?goto=newpost Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:23:49 GMT Hi,

I'm searching the way to get the number of WORDs used by a code like one can see it in MCS:
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Any idea how to get this information?
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]]> mel PIC BASIC Pro flotulopex https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27111-WORDs-count-at-compile-assembly-time 160 byte framebuffer at 50 fps, internal RAM or external SRAM? https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27110-160-byte-framebuffer-at-50-fps-internal-RAM-or-external-SRAM?goto=newpost Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:11:29 GMT Hello.
I'm doing a graphic project, where content of WS0010b OLED display will be updated really fast, 50fps at least.
The framebuffer size is 160 bytes. Will PBPs arraywrite/arrayread operations provide enough speed at 18F running at 64mhz, to read and write that array at that speed, or better to use external, parallel SRAM for that? ]]> mel PIC BASIC Pro CuriousOne https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27110-160-byte-framebuffer-at-50-fps-internal-RAM-or-external-SRAM Command Line operation ni a BATCH file https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27109-Command-Line-operation-ni-a-BATCH-file?goto=newpost Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:02:11 GMT Hi All,

I'd like to launch the compiler/assembler and the PICKit3 programmer, all in COMMAND LINE mode, in a DOS batch file.

Unfortunately, I'm getting error messages at compile/assemble time.

According to Melanie's posts, I have programmed my batch file as here (the PICKit part is left out for now):
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Path C:\Program Files (x86)\PBP3_1;C:\Program Files (x86)\PBP3_1\temp
PBPX -p16F690 -aMPASMX Blink_16F690.pbp -v

Obviously, my PBP3 compiler's location is "C:\Program Files (x86)\PBP3_1" and the assembler's one is C:\Program Files (x86)\PBP3_1\temp.

Launching the BATCH file, I'll get these messages:
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I get 5 "Access violation" errror windows I can clear and at final, everything seems okay = every thing works (I get the HEX file I can send to the PIC).

Any idea how I can make things work the "clean way" please?
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]]> mel PIC BASIC Pro flotulopex https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27109-Command-Line-operation-ni-a-BATCH-file Converting PBP interrupt to ASM - 18F25K20 https://www.picbasic.co.uk/forum/showthread.php/27106-Converting-PBP-interrupt-to-ASM-18F25K20?goto=newpost Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:10:48 GMT I have a couple interrupt routines using DT's instant interrupts in PBP that I'd like to convert to asm to reduce execution time. One of the ISRs uses an external interrupt to time pulses and store the results in an array (ppm) and increments to the array index (ppm_n). Bit 4 of ppm_n is set to 0 so that ppm_n rolls over from 15 to 0. I read the array outside of the interrupt and verify the bit ppmwrite hasn't changed while reading the data, else the interrupt could have occured while reading the data.

This compiles but it appears none of the array values are updating except for index 15, which appears to be randomly assigned and never changes even though the array is cleared at startup. However it appears the index ppm_n is incrementing and ppmwrite is being toggled. Typical output from the code below looks like this (first 16 values are the ppm array, red is ppm_n, and blue is ppmwrite):

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29184 8 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29184 6 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29184 5 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29184 3 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 29184 2 0

I cobbled together the code below from some helpful posts in these forums and the datasheet. I still include "ReEnterPBP-18.bas" since I use that for another ISR that still uses PBP, but that is not included in this test code. I'm not that experienced with asm (yet), so any pointers are greatly appreciated!

Code:
pausetime  var  word
ppm        var  word[16]
ppm_n      var  byte
n          var  byte
ppmwrite    var  bit

T3CON = %10110000 'ppm timer: Prescaler = 8:1,  Timer off; bit 5-4 is prescaler (00=1:1, 01=2:1 ... 11=8:1)

INCLUDE "DT_INTS-18.bas" ' Base Interrupt System
INCLUDE "ReEnterPBP-18.bas" ' Include if using PBP interrupts

'----[High Priority PPM Interrupt]----------------------------------------------
ASM
INT_LIST macro ; IntSource, Label, Type, ResetFlag?
INT_Handler INT0_INT, _PULSE_WIDTH, ASM, yes
endm
INT_CREATE ; Creates the interrupt processor
ENDASM

'clear ppm array
for n=0 to 15
ppm[n]=0
next n

ppm_n=0

@ bsf    T3CON, TMR3ON  ; Start timer
@ INT_ENABLE INT0_INT ; enable external (INT) interrupts

ppmloop:
pause 100
@ INT_DISABLE INT0_INT ; disble external (INT) interrupts
serout2 PIN_OUT,6,[dec ppm[0]," ",dec ppm[1]," ",dec ppm[2]," ",dec ppm[3]," ",dec ppm[4]," ",dec ppm[5]," ",dec ppm[6]," ",dec ppm[7]," ",dec ppm[8]," ",dec ppm[9]," ",dec ppm[10]," ",dec ppm[11]," ",dec ppm[12]," ",dec ppm[13]," ",dec ppm[14]," ",dec ppm[15]," ",dec ppm_n," ",dec ppmwrite,13,10]
@ INT_ENABLE INT0_INT ; enable external (INT) interrupts
goto ppmloop

PULSE_WIDTH:
ASM
  movff  TMR3L, _pausetime          ; Read LB and store in variable 'pausetime' - also loads TMR3H into buffer
  movff  TMR3H, _pausetime + 1      ; Read HB from buffer
  movf  _ppm_n, W                  ; Get index value from variable 'ppm_n' for array address, store in WREG
  rlncf  WREG, W                    ; Multiply by 2 since ppm array is words (16bit)
  addlw  _ppm                        ; add base address of ppm array to offset in W
  movwf  FSR0                        ; store the calculated address in FSR0
  movf  _pausetime, W              ; load pausetime LB into WREG
  movwf  INDF0                      ; move LB into ppm[ppm_n]
  incf  FSR0                        ; move to next pointer loation for HB
  movf  _pausetime + 1, W          ; load pausetime HB into WREG
  movwf  INDF0                      ; move HB into ppm[ppm_n]       
  incf  _ppm_n, f                  ; increment array index variable ppm_n
  bcf    _ppm_n, 4                  ; clear bit 4 so array starts over after index 15 (b1111)
  btg    _ppmwrite                  ; toggle ppmwrite to check if interrupt occured in main program
INT_RETURN
ENDASM
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