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jackhab



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GPIO bridge
PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 11:54 am     Reply with quote
Hi,

What is the fastest way to bridge between two pins so that one pin outputs the value of other?
Currently I'm using:

#use fast_io(a)
output_bit(PIN_A1, input(PIN_A5));

Is there a better way?
Thanks.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 25, 2020 1:59 pm     Reply with quote
Piece of wire ? Confused
Hey, it's hot here....

Though really what's the purpose, unless the program has to control WHEN the output pin follows the input pin ??
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 7:24 am     Reply with quote
temtronic wrote:
Piece of wire ? Confused
Hey, it's hot here....

Though really what's the purpose, unless the program has to control WHEN the output pin follows the input pin ??


Piece of wire is exactly what I am trying to avoid to allow different hardware configurations and this is basically my question - how to "short-circuit" two PIC pins in software with best possible performance, where one pin is always input and the other is output.
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PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 7:37 am     Reply with quote
There is not a really good way.
Problem is any software solution, is only going to work, if the code is being
called. If the processor is off doing something else (delaying, or servicing
an interrupt), the code will stop working.
Even if you use an interrupt to make sure the signal is 'serviced', there
will be a long delay in the response.
Now, there are chips with hardware to do this. Chips with the CLC, allow you
to program 'logic' between specific pins. Consider switching to a chip with
this feature.
Also, if (for instance) the need is to be able to invert a signal, or feed it to
different locations, something like an external multiplexer chip could be
used with the PIC specifying the address to determine where the signal
goes, or an external XOR gate to allow the signal to be inverted.
jackhab



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 27, 2020 9:36 am     Reply with quote
Ttelmah wrote:
There is not a really good way.
Problem is any software solution, is only going to work, if the code is being
called. If the processor is off doing something else (delaying, or servicing
an interrupt), the code will stop working.


In my case this is not an issue as I'm building a special "bypass" SW version to make the PIC appear transparent. In order to keep the hardware backward compatible, we cannot bridge pins with wires.

I have no interrupts, and main() only has:
Code:

    while (1) {
        output_bit(PIN_A1, input(PIN_A5));
        output_bit(PIN_A0, input(PIN_C3));
        output_bit(PIN_B5, input(PIN_C4));
        output_bit(PIN_C5, input(PIN_B4));
    }
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