On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 1:21 AM, vasile surducan <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Joep Suijs <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Vasi,
>>
>> 2011/1/14 funlw65(Vasi) <[email protected]>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I said in the first comment:
>> >
>> > "I think I wanted to see how low can be the delay after a
>> > conversion...
>> > otherwise I can't remember... "
>> >
>>
>> I know you did. And after that you say you tried again using the
>> program from your website and it works okay. The program from your
>> website does not work for me and that might be related to the delay
>> mentioned. So i'm interested in the answer on:
>> > What is the delay in  convert_18B20() you use?
>> for the test you just did...
>>
>> I worked on the library this evening and rearranged more stuff. I get
>> a bit confused of all the different functions. Where it boils down to
>> is:
>> - you can read the temperature only (crc is not read).
>> or
>> - you can read the temperature with crc (actually the full
>> scratchpad), check if the crc is correct and retry a number of times.
>>
>> and
>> - you can get the temperature as a 'raw' value (a signed fixed point word)
>> or
>> - you can get the temperature split in two bytes and a sign
>>
>> and
>> - you can work with an id (multiple devices)
>> or
>> - you can work with a single device.
>>
>> What would you say if the number of functions is reduced, but the
>> behaviour of this functions can be controlled with constants?
>> So you will only have two read functions, one with _s_ and one without.
>> With constants you can control:
>> - if just the two tempature bytes are read, or crc is also read and
>> checked.
>> - the max nr of times the device is re-read when there is a crc error
>> - if the return value is raw or 'fixed point decimal'
>>
>> And with  decimal I mean a word in range from 1280 to -1270,
>> corresponding from 128.0 degrees to minus 127.0 degrees. This should
>> be properly handled with format.jal and a good replacement for the
>> three vars unit, digit and sign that are used now...
>>
>
> even when display on a 7 segment? and display is multiplexed...
>
> Vasile
>
>
>

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