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JBM
Joined: 12 May 2004
Posts: 54
Location: edinburgh, Scotland
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| MAX6675 driver |
 Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 4:33 pm |
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Below is my driver for the MAX6675, a chip which interfaces to a K-type thermocouple over a simple SPI bus.
The driver implements a software SPI port, so there is no need for dedicateed hardware- any 3 GPIO pins can be used.
Notice I am releasing this under the GPL, so make sure you understand what rights and responsibilites this gives you before including it in your own projects. It is free software (as in freedom), just make sure you abide by the terms of the lisence.
-JBM
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/**************************************************************************************
* max6675.c - communicates with a MAX6675 thermcouple interface chip *
* Copyright Jimbob's Ma 2006 *
* *
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or *
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License *
* as published by the Free Software Foundation version 2 *
* of the License. *
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* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, *
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of *
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the *
* GNU General Public License for more details. *
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License *
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software *
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. *
**************************************************************************************/
/*
This is a diver for the MAX6675 K-type thermocouple interface chip. It implements an SPI
bus without the need for dedicated hardware (aka a bit-banged interface). The result from
toFloat_TC() is the temperature in degrees celcius of the thermocouple tip. The rest should
be self-evident. Have a look at the end of the file for example usage.
*/
#ifndef TC_CLK
#define TC_CLK PIN_B1 //edit these pins as necessary
#endif
#ifndef TC_CS
#define TC_CS PIN_B2
#endif
#ifndef TC_DATA
#define TC_DATA PIN_B3
#endif
int1 thermocouple_error; //a handy dandy global error flag to tell you if a thermocouple is connected or not
void init_TC(void)
{
output_low(TC_CLK);
output_low(TC_DATA);
output_high(TC_CS); //if we idle high, the chip keeps doing conversions. Change this if you like
}
int16 read_TC(void) //It takes 200ms (ish) for the MAX6675 to perform a conversion
{
int8 i;
int16 data;
output_low(TC_CS); //stop any conversion processes
delay_us(1); //and give it some time to power up (not very much, admittedly)
for (i=0;i<16;i++){
shift_left(&data,2,input(TC_DATA)); //reads in 2 bytes to data from the pin TC_DATA
output_high(TC_CLK);
output_low(TC_CLK);
}
thermocouple_error=bit_test(data,2); //this is the thermocouple status bit
output_high(TC_CS);
return(data);
}
int16 sortout(int16 raw)
{
return(0x0FFF & (raw>>3)); //returns only the bits converning temperature
}
float toFloat_TC(int16 tmp)
{
return((float)tmp/4.0); //adjusts data to floating point format, and accounts for the decimal point
}
float do_everything(void)
{
init_TC();
delay_ms(200); //200ms is a long time to be doing nothing. use a timer interrupt to avoid wasting time here
return(toFloat_TC(sortout(read_TC())));
}
/*
//example program
#define TC_CLK PIN_B2
#define TC_CS PIN_B2
#define TC_DATA PIN_B1
#include "max6675.c"
void main()
{
char msg[32];
delay_ms(50); //allow oscillator to stabilise
while(1){
delay_ms(800);
sprintf(msg,"%01.2f%cC\r\n",do_everything(),0xB0);
if(thermocouple_error)
printf("Thermocouple not connected\r\n");
else
printf("%s",msg);
}
}
*/
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deniska_gus
Joined: 11 Jul 2006
Posts: 42
Location: Minden, Germany
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:48 am |
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Hello! I have just one question. I need to connect this max6675 with rs232. I use pic16f877 and i have no idea, how i can do it. Could you please help me?
Regards. Dennis |
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kender
Joined: 09 Aug 2004
Posts: 768
Location: Silicon Valley
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| Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2006 2:13 pm |
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| deniska_gus wrote: | | I need to connect this max6675 with rs232. I use pic16f877 and i have no idea, how i can do it. Could you please help me? ** |
If all you need to do is to connect MAX6675 to a computer, you can do it via parallel port with minimum hardware and without microcontroller. The approach is shown in this app note by maxim http://www.maxim-ic.com/appnotes.cfm/appnote_number/980
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