ME Labs, Inc. | 1-719-520-5323 | Example Program - VBARXU.pbp

' Name        : VBARXU.pbp
' Compiler    : PICBASIC PRO Compiler 2.6
' Assembler   : MPASM
' Target PIC  : PIC18F4550 or similar type
' Hardware    : LAB-XUSB Experimenter Board
' Oscillator  : 20MHz external
' Keywords    : ADCIN, LCDOUT
' Description : PICBASIC PRO program to measure voltage (0-5VDC)
' and display on LCD with 2 decimal places. A 60 segment bargraph
' is also displayed using custom LCD characters.
'

' This program uses the */ operator to scale the ADC result from 0-1023
' to 0-500.  The */ performs a divide by 256 automatically, allowing math
' which would normally exceed the limit of a word variable.

' Connect analog input to channel-0 (RA0)

' Define LOADER_USED to allow use of the boot loader.
' This will not affect normal program operation.
Define LOADER_USED 1

' RESET_ORG can be set to move the BASIC program out of the way
' of any boot loader running from location 0, such as the
' Microchip USB boot loader
'Define RESET_ORG 800h

Define OSC 48      ' Core is running at 48MHz

' Define LCD pins
Define LCD_DREG  PORTD
Define LCD_DBIT  4
Define LCD_RSREG PORTE
Define LCD_RSBIT 0
Define LCD_EREG  PORTE
Define LCD_EBIT  1

' Define ADCIN parameters
Define  ADC_BITS     10   ' Set number of bits in result
Define  ADC_CLOCK     3   ' Set clock source (3=rc)
Define  ADC_SAMPLEUS 50   ' Set sampling time in uS

' Declare variables
adval    Var Word       ' Create adval to store result
fullbars Var Byte       ' Number of full bars at left of graph
barval   Var Byte       ' Value passed to bargraph routine
partbar  Var Byte       ' ASCII code for partial bar character
pad      Var Byte       ' Number of spaces to pad to the right of graph

   TRISA = %11111111    ' Set PORTA to all input
   ADCON1 = %00001010   ' Set PORTA analog...
   ADCON2 = %10000000   ' ...and right justify result
   ' PORTE remains digital to allow operation of the LCD
        
   Low PORTE.2          ' LCD R/W line low (W)
   Pause 500            ' Wait .5 second
        
' Load the custom characters to LCD CGRAM. The blank at $0 makes the graphing math work faster.
   LCDOut $FE, 64, REP $0\8     ' Load blank character (ascii $0)
   LCDOut $0, REP $10\6,$0      ' Load | character (ascii $1)
   LCDOut $0, REP $14\6,$0      ' Load || character (ascii $2)
   LCDOut $0, REP $15\6,$0      ' Load ||| character (ascii $3)
   LCDOut $FE, 1                ' Clear the display

mainloop:
   ADCIN 0, adval               ' Read channel 0 to adval (0-1023)
   adval = (adval */ 500) >> 2  ' equates to: (adval * 500)/1024

   LCDOut $FE, 2, "DC Volts= ", DEC (adval / 100), ".", DEC2 adval ' Display the decimal value
   barval = (adval / 9) + 1     ' Scale 0-500 to 60 segment bargraph (1-56)
   GoSub bargraph               ' Update bargraph with new barval
   GoTo mainloop                ' Do it forever

bargraph:
   fullbars = (barval MIN 60) / 3       ' Calculate number of full bars (|||). 
   
   ' partbar holds the ascii code for the partial bar character: $0=" ", $1="|", or $2="||"
   partbar = (barval MIN 60) // 3       ' Calculate ascii code for partial bar character                 
   pad = 19 - fullbars                  ' Number of spaces to fill display width.
   
   LCDOut $fe, $c0, REP $3\fullbars, partbar, REP " "\pad ' Display the bar on second line
   Return

   End

           

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