waspinator 
Hi,
I'm just starting out playing around with AVR and need some help with the basics. I have a DB101 and would like to be able to do some simple input/output on it. I've been looking around but couldn't find any guides specific to the DB101. I did find a gcc port of the stuff already on there (http://www.siwawi.arubi.uni-kl.d...) and loaded that on to it.
Is there a tutorial on how to make a blinky application for the DB101?
Thanks,
Waspinator
Koshchi Exactly what do you want to blink? The DB101 doesn't have an LED. If you want that, you will have to connect an LED to one of the unused outputs. Once that it done, then any blinky program for any AVR will work, you just have to adjust it to use the output that you have the LED connected to.
If you want to blink something on the LCD, then you'll have to look at what functions in the example code are available to send stuff to the LCD.
waspinator Sorry about not being more clear. An external LED is what I want to blink, connected to some unused ports.
I just don't know how to access the ports in software, and would need some help figuring out where they are physically.
I found this. could I just use this without modification? Where is port 6? Is avr/io.h part of the standard library or do I have to write that myself?
(http://www.ladyada.net/learn/pro...)
00001 // this is the header file that tells the compiler what pins and ports, etc. 00002 // are available on this chip. 00003 #include00004 00005 // define what pins the LEDs are connected to. 00006 // in reality, PD6 is really just '6' 00007 #define LED PD6 00008 00009 // Some macros that make the code more readable 00010 #define output_low(port,pin) port &= ~(1<<pin) 00011 #define output_high(port,pin) port |= (1<<pin) 00012 #define set_input(portdir,pin) portdir &= ~(1<<pin) 00013 #define set_output(portdir,pin) portdir |= (1<<pin) 00014 00015 // this is just a program that 'kills time' in a calibrated method 00016 void delay_ms(uint8_t ms) { 00017 uint16_t delay_count = F_CPU / 17500; 00018 volatile uint16_t i; 00019 00020 while (ms != 0) { 00021 for (i=0; i != delay_count; i++); 00022 ms--; 00023 } 00024 } 00025 00026 int main(void) { 00027 // initialize the direction of PORTD #6 to be an output 00028 set_output(DDRD, LED); 00029 00030 while (1) { 00031 // turn on the LED for 200ms 00032 output_high(PORTD, LED); 00033 delay_ms(200); 00034 // now turn off the LED for another 200ms 00035 output_low(PORTD, LED); 00036 delay_ms(200); 00037 // now start over 00038 } 00039 }
Koshchi That should work. According to the hardware documentation PortD bit 6 is free on one of the connectors at the bottom. I'm not sure which one, but it say J107. But in looking at the docs I remembered that the DB101 does indeed have LEDs since it has a backlight for the LCD. You could use that, but I don't know offhand what port it is attached to. My DB101 doesn't have a backlight (it was a pre-production model).
Is avr/io.h part of the standard library
waspinator I can't seem to figure out which connection it is.
I have tried to look at the hardware manual but can't find J103-J108.
Here is what I looked at and failed.
http://img200.yfrog.com/img200/7...
I'm going to try to run the program and just stick in an LED into every port and see which one lights up. I hope that this won't break anything though.
Thanks for your help and please let me know if you have any more ideas.
Waspinator
Koshchi Looking at the front, D5,D6 and D7 are to the left (just above the U|SART pins), and B5, B6, C2 and F3 are to the right (under the joystick). What confused us is that they are clearly marked :D
waspinator Ah Thanks,
What confused me was hardware manual saying something about PCB connections which weren't the ones that actually appear on the PCB.
Is there some place I can find a tutorial / guide / more sample code using the libraries and drivers provided with the DB101? Are these libraries and drivers used for anything other than the DB101?
Thanks again,
Waspinator
If you search on the atmel site for teh DB101 you should be able to get all the documentation you want. I think even the original application that is on it. ON this forum search for teh DB101 should give a link to the source code changed for the WinAVR environment as the original app is for IAR....
school project?
a lot of DB101 questions in an instance where this evaluation board is already around for quite a while....
regards
waspinator Thanks meslomp.
I actually already have all that documentation
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/Product...
and the gcc version of the included code
http://www.siwawi.arubi.uni-kl.d...
but I was wondering if there was anything else.
Some beginner guides to AVR focusing on what's available on the DB101 or some more sample code for the DB101 making use of the drivers and libraries provided.
Thanks,
Waspinator
I have never found them.
I also have a DB101. But shortly after became a proud owner of an STK500, so the DB101 is put aside infavour of the STK wich gave me a lot more freedom to do whatever I want with my processor.
There are 3 application notes though. I thought one of them gave a breef overview of the software and how to use it.
regards
