Chipselect Var PORTD,Vecto4X Compass

Can a person use the alias for Chipselect Var PORTD and select only 3 bits or pins of PortD. I know you can do the whole PortD or just 1 bit, but how if possible would you assign only the 3 MSB to chipselect.

I could not find it in the PBP manual.


Also has anyone messed around with the vector 4X digital compass, if so a little code would be helpfull.

Thanks A Bunch

Hi Shawn,

Yeah, that would be handy. Too bad you can't do it. :(

But there's a way to handle it when Reading/Writing to the port.

Writing to the Port:

Code:

---

Chipselect  VAR  Byte

Chipselect  = 2
PORTD = PORTD & %00011111 | (Chipselect << 5)

---

It first reads the current value of PORTD, then AND's it with a mask %00011111 to leave the unused bits alone, then OR's it with the Chipselect value after it's been shifted left 5 places.

So, the range of Chipselect is 0 to 7, and it gets re-mapped to the 3 MSB of PORTD

Reading from the Port:

Code:

---

Chipselect  VAR  Byte

Chipselect  = PORTD >> 5

---

Reading is easier, just shift the contents of PORTD 5 bits to the right.

HTH,
   Darrel

Thanks Darrel

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