Connecting the TLC548 to the PICAXE

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PICAXE 18M2 test board
Fig. 1 Schematic to my home built test board minus I/O resistors.

Connecting the TLC548 to the PICAXE

by Lewis Loflin

Here we will read the analog-to-digital values from a TLC548 ADC with PICAXE and display those values on the terminal. The second program is a variation of Analog-to-Digital Conversion with the PICAXE demo except we use an external ADC and not the internal units.

PICAXE connected to TLC548 ADC.
Fig. 2

Fig. 2 shows the electrical connections between the PICAXE 18M2 and Ad5220. C.0 is electrical pin 17 and C.1 is electrical pin 18 on the PICAXE chip.

PICAXE 18M2 pinout
Fig 3 PICAXE 18M2.

Program 1


#rem  

TLC548 8-bit ADC demo

Program will read value from TLC548
and display on terminal. 

Pins on the TLC548:

1 -> Ref + -> connect to Vcc
2 -> analog in
3 -> Ref - -> connect to GND
4 -> GND

5 -> CS-NOT -> chip select active LOW
6 -> DATA OUT
7 -> CLK
8 -> Vcc

Page references pertain to PICAXE Manual 2 Basic Commands

#endrem


#picaxe 18M2 ; type chip used

#terminal 4800 ;set baud rate serial terminal and open


setfreq m4  ; set internal resonator to 4mHz p. 221

symbol Data_In = pinC.0
symbol CLK = C.1
symbol CS = C.2
; CS connected to ground.

symbol val = b0
symbol temp = b1
symbol i = b2
symbol j = b3

HIGH CS
LOW CLK


main:

LOW CS

   for i = 1 to 8
     HIGH CLK
     pause 1
     if Data_in = 1 then gosub OR1 
     if Data_in = 0 then gosub OR0
     LOW CLK
   next i

HIGH CS
; convert val to three ASCII char p. 36
bintoascii val,b6,b7,b8
; send char to terminal followed by LF-CR p. 210
sertxd(b6,b7,b8,13,10) ; 13,10 -> LF-CR

pause 200

goto main


OR1:
;bitwise OR 0x01 shift one place left
val = val | %00000001 * 2
return 

OR0:
;bitwise OR 0x00 shift one place left
val = val * 2
return

led to vcc
Connect the three LEDs as shown.

Program 2

In the code below three LEDs (with 220 ohm dropping resistors) are connected in the "sink" configuration shown above. The program examines the value returned form the ADC and lights the corresponding LED based on that number. Refer to Analog-to-Digital Conversion with the PICAXE.

symbol LED1 = C.2  ; to electrical pin 1
symbol LED2 = C.7  ; to electrical pin 16
symbol LED3 = C.6  ; to electrical pin 15


symbol Data_In = pinC.0
symbol CLK = C.1
symbol CS = C.2
; CS connected to ground.

symbol val = b0
symbol temp = b1
symbol i = b2
symbol j = b3

HIGH CS
LOW CLK
main: ; start program

LOW CS

   for i = 1 to 8
     HIGH CLK
     pause 1
     if Data_in = 1 then gosub OR1 
     if Data_in = 0 then gosub OR0
     LOW CLK
   next i

HIGH CS

   if val > 120 then top   ;  jump to label top if true
   if val > 70 AND val < 120 then middle  ; jump to label middle if true 
   if val < 70 then bottom  ; jump to label bottom if true

goto main  ;jump back to the start


top:   ; label
HIGH LED1
LOW LED2
LOW LED3
goto main ; done jump back to start 

middle:   ; label
LOW LED1
HIGH LED2
LOW LED3
goto main  ; done jump back to start

bottom:  ; label
LOW LED1
LOW LED2
HIGH LED3
goto main  ; done jump back to start


OR1:
;bitwise OR 0x01 shift one place left
val = val | %00000001 * 2
return 

OR0:
;bitwise OR 0x00 shift one place left
val = val * 2
return

Picaxe Micro-controller Projects!

The PICAXE series of micro-controllers rank as the easiest and most cost effective way to use Microchip processors. I wanted an easier and less expensive way to introduce my students to the "PIC" micro-controller. Here I hope to get those starting out past poorly written literature and lack of simple working code examples.