Are you still going for Sidereal time? If so that is floating point The ARM processor unlike the Arduino does not have fixed pin assignment. Typically there are many UARTS, I2C interfaces, ADC units and so on more than there are physical pins. Within some limits you assign functions to pins in software. Some you don't need to make a special board at OSHPark with three serial ports. You can move the serial function to the pins you like.
That said, moving functions to pins is an "advanced" software art. So to make it easy for normal people the development environment will have some easy way to do this and some limits too. You can program most ARM M boards using Arduino but that IDE while day to use is limited. The next step up is "mbed" which is much more capable and lets you move some functions to some pins the IDE is web based so there is no software to install. (OK you can work locally if you like. There are several ways to do that. This is my favorite under $2 boards now http://www.ebay.com/itm/STM32F103C8T6 <http://www.ebay.com/itm/STM32F103C8T6-ARM-STM32-Minimum-System-Development-Board-Module-For-Arduino-/192181979870?hash=item2cbef04ade:g:pBgAAOSwvihY8r-0> The specs are literally an order of magnitude over Arduino and at under $2 shipped thrice is right. These are Arm Cortex M3 in the size of a large 1970's vintage DIP chip. Google the P/N for loads of information This parts works on bed and arduino IDEs as well as simply using the gcc arm compiler. The other one I use is Nucleo F401RE These are $13 each and unlike the above have loads of 1st rate documentations written by a US company ST Micro. https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/ST-Nucleo-F401RE/ Yes you can snap off the programmer and reconnect it with jumpers or leave it on. Even if you leave it on you can use it to program the STM32F103. Saves you from having to buy an Chinese clone ST-Link dongle. TheF401RE is the "classic" part that most example programs have beed tested on but I'd buy the F446RE for $1 more. It's twice as fast and has more RAM. The mbed IDE lets you use most C source code you can find and it runs a real time OS. Arduino is still hands down the easiest environment to learn and it runs at 5 volts. I keep one for testing 5V hardware. All the arm stuff is 3v3 Most any ARM board can run with the Arduino IDE it some one wrote a boot loader for it. The mbed boards don't use bootloders. They "look" like a flash drive to your PC so all you do is drag and drop the BIN file to the flash drive and the board then runs whatever case to dropped there. One more bit of advice. Buy a logic analyzer. I was using one today and mad it save a LOT of time debugging when you can see what data is on the pins. Logic analyzers used to be expensive but one god enough for this kind of work is now under $10 for a Saleae clone http://www.ebay.com/itm/24MHz-8CH-USB-Logic-Analyzer-24MHz-8-Channel-Compatible-to-Saleae <http://www.ebay.com/itm/24MHz-8CH-USB-Logic-Analyzer-24MHz-8-Channel-Compatible-to-Saleae-ARM-FPGA-M100-/272337085235?hash=item3f688e2333:g:RNcAAOSwPCVYBD2b> They work like a scope for digital and can do protocol decoding show the data going over a cable. On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 2:16 PM, Ben Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chris and list, > > My original goal was to duplicate, more or less, what the PackRat guys did > to get the TruePosition boards up and functional as described here: > > <http://www.packratvhf.com/A%20Packrat%20GPS%20Receiver%20Project.pdf> > > I did get in touch with them and they forwarded the HEX files. I haven't > tried them yet, but another list member did try them without success. > > I figured, as a learning exercise, I'd program up my own interface. The > boards do not talk NMEA...but output their own format of message. One > message contains GPS time in seconds...plus the number of leap seconds that > have elapsed, so my goal there was to convert the GPS time from the unit > into normal UTC date and time. > > On 5/14/2017 12:38 PM, Chris Albertson wrote: > >> Unless this is an educational exercise I'd move to a different processor. >> One of those $3 Arm M3 units has enough memory AND a more standard >> development environment that you could use a standard library function to >> do what you need. >> > > It is an educational exercise...but I'm still going to look into this. > Another list member suggested a different Arduino board that had two real > serial ports, as right now the Uno board I'm using only has one hardware > serial port with a second duplicated in software. (one port talks to the > TruePosition board...the other is debugging output port) > > I did happen to recall that I included a Teensy-LC board (Cortex M0) in a > recent OSHPark PCB order...and it appears to have three hardware serial > ports...so this may be the way I go eventually. > > One of the reasons I liked the Uno was due to all the tutorials and > example code floating around...plus the nice selection of libraries...as > I'm not a programmer. My code would probably make a real programmer lose > his or her lunch. :( > > thanks much, > ben > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/m > ailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Chris Albertson Redondo Beach, California _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
