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Ports on a standard Arduino

In AVR, Software on Mar 1, 2009 at 00:01

The Ports library described in recent posts works fine with any type of Arduino, Freeduino, etc – not just JeeNodes. It merely uses some conventions for the “DIO” and “AIO” pins of each of the 4 ports.

Here is an example using a HM55B compass module from Parallax, using an Arduino Duemilanove with a Proto Shield from AdaFruit:

Ports on a standard Arduino

There are actually two sensors in the above setup – the bigger sensor is a Parallax H48C 3-axis accelerometer (more on that below). Both need +5V to operate, so they won’t work with simple 4-pin ports on a JeeNode.

Ports are mapped to the Arduino pins as follows:

  • Port 1 DIO = Arduino digital pin 4 (PD4)
  • Port 1 AIO = Arduino analog pin 0 (PC0)
  • Port 2 DIO = Arduino digital pin 5 (PD5)
  • Port 2 AIO = Arduino analog pin 1 (PC1)
  • Port 3 DIO = Arduino digital pin 6 (PD6)
  • Port 3 AIO = Arduino analog pin 2 (PC2)
  • Port 4 DIO = Arduino digital pin 7 (PD7)
  • Port 4 AIO = Arduino analog pin 3 (PC3)

The ATmega register bits are listed in parentheses.

Here is the full code of the HM55B driver plus demo:

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Sample output:

Ports on a standard Arduino

The H48C 3-axis accelerometer demo is very similar, source code can be found here. Sample output:

Ports on a standard Arduino

These two hookups both use some new utility code in the Ports library to shift a specified number of bits in and out of the DIO line while clocking the AIO line. Note also that these sensors needs two ports each, since they both use 3 IO lines for their SPI-like interface.