Презентация на тему Serial Communications

for programming and to talk with computers
Talking to other

devices uses the “Serial” commands
TX – sending to PC
RX – receiving from PC

“Serial Monitor” button to see output

USB
It really is “serial”, like old RS-232 serial
All microcontrollers

can do serial
Not many can do USB
Serial is easy, USB is hard

serial terminal from the old days

bits, each sent one after the other down a

single wire.
The single ASCII character ‘B’ is sent as:

Toggle a pin to send data, just like blinking an LED
You could implement sending serial data with digitalWrite() and delay()
A single data wire needed to send data. One other to receive.

hardware serial port
But serial communication is also possible using

software libraries to emulate additional ports

USB adapter
Arduino Mini

ports
Only one of these has a USB adapter built

in

but it makes things easier
Original Arduino boards were RS-232

serial, not USB
All programs that talk to Arduino (even the Arduino IDE) think that they’re talking via a serial port

and not USB, Interfacing to things like USB flash

drives, USB hard disks, USB webcams, etc. is not possible
Also, USB is a host/peripheral protocol. Being a USB “host” means needing a lot of processing power and software, not something for a tiny 8kB microcontroller. It can be a peripheral. In fact, there is an open project called “AVR-USB” that allows AVR chips like used in Arduino to be proper USB peripherals

must agree how information is organized in the message

(communications protocol)
Header - one or more special characters that identify the start of message
Footer - one or more special characters that identify the end of message

sketch prints sequential numbers on the Serial Monitor:
void setup(){

Serial.begin(9600); // send and receive at 9600 baud
}
int number = 0;
void loop(){
Serial.print("The number is ");
Serial.println(number); // print the number
delay(500); // delay half second between numbers
number++; // to the next number
}

The number is 0
The number is 1
The number is 2

Output is:

parameter: the desired communication speed (baud).

You must use the

same speed for the sending side and the receiving side.

baud is a measure of the number of bits transmitted per second

Serial.println() function
println() – prints the data followed by a

carriage return character and a newline character
These commands can take many forms
Numbers are printed using an ASCII character for each digit
Floats are similarly printed as ASCII digits, defaulting to two decimal places
Bytes are sent as a single character
Characters and strings are sent as is

//provides thenumber of characters) in the string
message.concat(anotherMessage) //appends the

contents of anotheMessage to message (also + operator)
message.substring(s, e); //returns a substring starting from s till e
You can use the indexOf and lastIndexOf functions to find an instance of a particular character in a string
char message[8] = "Arduino"; //C type string
int length = strlen(message); // return the number of characters in the string
strcpy(destination, source); // copy string source to destination
strcat(destination, source); // append source string to the end of the destination string
if(strcmp(str, "Arduino") == 0) // do something if the variable str is equal to "Arduino"

character of the String
concat(parameter) or + - Appends the

parameter to a String
endsWith(string2) - Tests whether or not a String ends with string2
equals(string2) or == - Compares two strings for equality (case sensitive)
indexOf(val, [strt]) – locates val in a String by searching forward starting from strt index. To search backward use lastIndexOf(val,[strt])
length() - Returns the length of the String, in characters
remove(index,[count]) – remove all characters (or count caracters if given) from a String starting from index
replace(substring1, substring2) – Replace all instances of substring1 in a String to substring2
setCharAt(index, c) - Sets a character to c at index of the String
startsWith(string2) - Tests whether or not a String starts with the string2
substring(from, [to]) - Get a substring of a String, from - inclusive, to – exclusive
toInt() or toFloat() - Converts a valid String to an integer or float
toLowerCase() or toUpperCase() - Get a lower-case or upper-case version of a String
trim() - Get a version of the String with any leading and trailing whitespace removed

type. This is the type of value to be

returned by the function such as 'int' for an integer type function. If no value is to be returned the function type would be void. After type, declare the name given to the function and in parenthesis any parameters being passed to the function.

type functionName(parameters)
{
statements;
}

int delayVal()
{
int v; // create temporary variable 'v'
v = analogRead(pot); // read potentiometer value
v /= 4; // converts 0-1023 to 0-255
return v; // return final value
}

number of bytes (characters) available for reading from the

serial port.
This is data that's already arrived and stored in the serial receive buffer (which holds 64 bytes)
Serial.read() - Reads incoming serial data
Serial.readBytes(buffer, length) - reads characters from the serial port into a buffer. The function terminates if the determined length has been read, or it times out

a pin for LED
int val = 0;

// variable to store the data received via Serial port
void setup() {
pinMode(ledPin,OUTPUT); // make ledPin an output
Serial.begin(9600); // initialize the Serial port
}
void loop () {
// Serial.available() – is a method to see whether something is
// received or not via Serial port without pausing the main program
if( Serial.available() ) {
val = Serial.read(); // read the value received via Serial port
if( val == 'H' ) { // if ‘H’, then blink
digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH);
delay(1000);
digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW);
}
}
}

space between them and output to serial monitor
Find a

number of spaces in a given text
Given a string “Name Surname Age”, divide it to 3 strings
Convert a String containing a number to a number
Write function that compares 2 numbers and returns -1 if ab
Write function that returns minimum number from an array of integers

integers
Read the number N from Serial port and make

LED blink N times
Read numbers N and M and return N to the power of M