building own library with include-files?

[Darrel Taylor]

Then it looks like I'm only half done with you Steve.

Oh, and sorry about that disease. A little penicillin and you'll be fine.

So, let's see. More reasons to use Include files...

Hardware Definition:

How many proto-boards do you have on your bench?  Or on a shelf somewhere?  At the very least, just for trying out everyone elses programs you would need 2.   1 for 14-bit programs, and 1 for 18F's.  Maybe even a 12F proto in the mix. Personaly, I have 7.

Now, how many times have you Cut&Pasted the hardware definition section from some other program you wrote, just to have all the __configs, crystal, and pinout information so you could try out some little piece of code thats only 10 lines. And how long did it take to find the program that had the right definitions in the first place.

What I'm suggesting is to have a Hardware Definition file for each proto-board which defines everthing required to initialize that device, the LCD, USART, EEPROM's and give meaningfull names to the pins, SDA, SCL etc.

Now whenever you want to try the program on a different chip, simply INCLUDE the file for the proto-board you want to use, and spend your time on the program, instead of trying to get it to run on that hardware.  Then if you change the hardware (it is a proto-board), you only need to change 1 file.  And, you won't be copying the wrong header from an old file.

Here's 1 of my definition files, it's nothing special, just the basics for a LAB-X2. This way all I need to do is <p>INCLUDE "\PBP\hardware\LAB-X2.DEF"</p>and everthings ready to go, just add program.

'****************************************************************
'*  Name    : C:\LAB-X2.DEF                                     *
'*  Author  : Darrel Taylor                                     *
'*  Date    : 5/8/2003                                          *
'*  Version : 1.0                                               *
'*  Notes   : Target is 18F452                                  *
'*          :                                                   *
'****************************************************************
 @ __CONFIG _CONFIG1H, _OSCS_OFF_1H & _HS_OSC_1H	' Set oscillator to High Speed (HS)
 @ __CONFIG _CONFIG2H, _WDT_OFF_2H					' Turn off Watch Dog Timer (WDT)

Define OSC 10
CLEAR


 ' Define Hardware PWM channel 1
DEFINE  CCP1_REG		PORTC
DEFINE  CCP1_BIT		2

' Define Hardware PWM channel 2
DEFINE  CCP2_REG		PORTC
DEFINE  CCP2_BIT		1

AnalogPot    VAR  PORTA.0
AnalogPotAN  CON  0

ADCON1 = $8E      ' Right Justified, AN0 (RA0) Analog

INTCON2.7  = 0    ' Enable PORTB Pull-Ups

Button1  VAR PORTB.4
Button2  VAR PORTB.5
Button3  VAR PORTB.6

Servo    VAR PORTB.3

LED1     VAR PORTB.0
LED2     VAR PORTB.1
LED3     VAR PORTB.2

LOW LED1
LOW LED2
LOW LED3

That's just one more reason. I have more.
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