I need help :)

Hello people!

I decided to build a simulator with microcontroller.But i have some questions.If you help me out i'll be very glad.

1.I'll communicate with rs323 (via USB adapter) and i'll use USO.Is the USO seds data itself or i need an interface plugin?
2.If i had solved comminication problem then i'll be need to know binary codes for gear etc. How can i calculate them?

Thats all what i need to know but i'll be add more questions later THANK YOU SO MUCH !

Hi,
USO send data itself but you must instruct the uso to define witch values must send using some codes like ~a01~ that is the code to send the value of the axis 1.
Yo can set the format of the serial output to be a byte , a 16 bit word etc. and define if the output must be binary or text based (numbers or hexa) and the frequency to be sent.

Is something similar to a C printf or a c# format function

Do you want to make a motion platform or a gauge panel?


Regards,

Thank you very much dhweizel!

I'm going to build a gauge panel.Maybe later i can add a motion platform but i need to learn how the x-sim works.

I need to learn C++ i think. I know assembly and basic.

First i'll make a Gear indicator with 7 seg. Led display. I'm understand that:

I'll add an axis.
Then go to math setup.Add a output and select sender input 60 (Gear)
In Output Setup, I select USO and select a comport and add to the list.
Then i select 8bit and binary output
I'll use USO so i need to fill the ''Datapacket with axis informations'' If i write only ~a01~ then USO will sent data as something like 11110101 am i right?

I don't have the x-sim software here but i think that the procedure is ok

The x-sim software scales automatically the output value to the defined size so in your example the output will be a single byte, as example the scaled value 120 will shows as a character x in a terminal(ASCII table) and not the characters 1111000 , if you need a human readable output you can choose the hex format that shows as printed hex numbers.

I don't have any experience whit the gauge system but i think that there is some dedicated interfaces o modules somewhere in the x-sim software. May be the wiki can help you more.

Regards,

In ascii table 120 shows as a character ''x'' and shows as a binary ''01111000''.
If i choose binary format from output setup, it sends as x or 01111000 ??

Sorry but im a slow learner. And thanks again. You're helping a lot. By the way. I like your simulator. It works perfect

The value 120 at 8 bits sends as x

Thanks for the compliment

So there isn't any way to send it as binary format?

You are transmitting everything in binary format. The microcontroller receives everything in binary too.

Decimal checkbox will transmit each digit separately in a byte, instead of converting a value straight into binary.

128 in binary is 10000000.
128 in decimal, transmitted as binary: 00000001, 00000010, 00001000

The ASCII code is just a character assigned to an 8bit binary value. x = 120 and so on...
It is the exact same thing to transmit 'x' or to transmit 120 in binary.

Programming the controller with a C compiler:
if(byte == 'x') will give you the same result as if(byte == 120)

Ok i get it now! Thank you Frakk!