Chapter 10

Resources

• Microcontrollers: From Assembly Language to C Using the PIC24 Family, chapter 10
  • Pages 367-376, I/O Channel Basics & Synchronous, Asynchronous Serial I/O, confidently
  • Pages 376-394, The PIC24 UART, hastily
  • Pages 395-396, RS-232 Standard, confidently
  • Pages 414-417, The I²C bus, confidently
  • Pages 417-437, other I² sections, hastily
• Mississippi State ECE 3724 notes
  • Asynchronous Serial I/O
  • SPI, I2C Serial I/O
• Mississippi State ECE 3724 video lectures
• Microchip documents
  • PIC32MX1XX/2XX datasheet, Chapters 17 and 18 (pp. 173-184)
  • PIC12F1572 datasheet, Chapter 21 (pp. 160-187)
  • PIC32 Family Reference Manual (Documentation → Reference Manual)
  • PIC32 Family Reference Manual, Sect. 21 UART
  • PIC32 Family Reference Manual, Sect. 24 Inter-Integrated Circuit^TM (I²C)
• Pinkie-pie

Terms of communication

• Asynchronous Serial I/O (pp. 1-14)

• Parallel I/O vs Serial I/O
• Simplex vs half-duplex vs full-duplex
• Synchronous I/O vs Asynchronous I/O
• RS-232
• Odd parity, even parity, no parity vs parity for farmers
• Baud rate vs bits per second
• 10BASE-T vs 100BASE-T
• Buffered communication
• Bit banged communication

Troublesome terms of communication

• master/slave
• male and female or plug and socket

I²C bus

• I²C (pp. 13-14)
• IEEE SoutheastCon 2014 presentation (slides. 3, 7, 24-26. 42-53, 60-63, 68-70
• Fundamentals in I²C
• Some I²C products
  • BMP180 Digital pressure sensor
  • LSM303DLHC acceleromter and magnetometer
  • L3GD20 gyroscope
  • buggy gyroscope
  • MCP23017 I/O Expander