MIKROBASIC Soft_Uart to PICBASIC SEIRIN2?

[dhouston]

IIRC, Mikrobasic has 8 bit signed & unsigned short integers as well as longs. Unsigned should work.

[Corbet]

I've had a couple people on here tell me I should write an article about my project and I will once I get some of the major issues worked out and I will include pictures and I'll be sure to put a link on here to it.
I switched the type to byte but it just seems like they aren't syncing properly. In picbasic does the SERIN2 expect a start and stop bit after every 8 bits or does it expect a start bit then the 48 data bits and then a stop bit? Because MIKROBASIC sends a byte at a time so it sends start and stop bits after every bit.

[Corbet]

Oops I meant after every byte in the last sentence.

[Bruce]

All packets will include a start bit, 8 data bits, and the stop bit. You might have better luck if you increase (or get rid of) the timeout period.

[cncmachineguy]

Prolly just adding noise here, But how does the "sender" know the "receiver" is ready and able to receive?

[dhouston]

If mikrobasic allows, you might try increasing the time between bytes.

[Corbet]

Ok we made some progress. I added a 500us pause between bytes and its getting the values now.
But now only the first chip is getting the serial. The 3 slave chips are on seperate lines. The first chip is getting values but the second 2 aren't getting any. My transmit code is below

sub procedure Send()
    porta.0 = 1
    
    portc.2 = 1
    error1 = Soft_UART_Init(PORTC,1, 5, 9600, 0)
    delay_ms(3)
    soft_uart_write("@")
    for i = 0 to 5
        soft_uart_write(Coxa[i])
        delay_us(500)
    next i
    portc.2 = 0
    
    portc.1 = 1
    error1 = Soft_UART_Init(PORTC,2, 4, 9600, 0)
    delay_ms(3)
    soft_uart_write("@")
    for i = 0 to 5
        soft_uart_write(Thigh[i])
        delay_us(500)
    next i
    portc.1 = 0
    portc.0 = 1
    error1 = Soft_UART_Init(PORTC,0, 3, 9600, 0)
    delay_ms(3)
    soft_uart_write("@")
    for i = 0 to 5
        soft_uart_write(Tibia[i])
        delay_us(500)
    next i
    portc.0 = 0
    
    porta.0 = 0
    return
end sub

my receiver waits for the @ symbol so that is why its sent first.