PCBScodingHelpDemo-10

You will need to observe CMOS handling procedures to prevent static electricity damage during testing.
You will need the completed MC-1 CPU board, the MC-1 Programmer and power supply.
If you have a sixteen pin Auxiliary Port you will need to attach the ground fly lead from the MC-1 Programmer to the ground pad in any corner of the MC-1 CPU.
You will need to connect the Serial ribbon cable between the 'Serial-0' port of the MC-1 CPU and your computer (Refer to Demo-9).
You will be needing 'Sudo' rights at different stages.
You must have just completed Demo-9 successfully!
No cable should be plugged into the Serial-1 Port on the MC-1 CPU board during programming at any time!

Step-1: Open the Hello Project.

As a first step, connect up all the cables as used in Practical-9 and switch the computer on and then switch the power supply on. Your computer should be still operating normally!

Set your preferences to the Serial port you have used, either '0' for the first serial port or '1' for the second with 'Preferences>IDE>Basic>ComPort'

Bring up the side4linux IDE on your computer and open the test project's 'hello.prf' file, /SIDE/PRODUCTS/MC1/AVRA/Hello/hello.prf using 'Project>Open Project' from the Main Menu as follows,

Fig-1 Open Hello Project Dialog

OK, now that you have programmed your MC-1 CPU with the 'Hello' program ( Demo-9 ) you can now open the 'b2term' program to communicate with your AVR chip!

Launch the serial graphical communication program as 'Tools>AVRA>AVR MONITOR', you should be greeted by 'sudo's' password dialog similar to the graphic below,

Fig-2 Sudo Dialog Box.

After using your normal password that you signed on with and on clicking the Continue' button you should now have the 'b2term' screen up on your display. If you cannot sign on then perhaps you need to re-read this section on setting Linux user permissions.

Now to set up access to your serial port, click on the 'SetSerial' button and you should be greeted with the message as follows,

Fig-3 b2term sign on screen.

Notice that there are three windows,

Input messages from the MC-1 CPU.
Output messages from the 'b2term' program.
User command entry box for special commands to send to the MC-1 CPU

Notice also that there are three buttons at the bottom,

Send command currently in the entry box ( Window-3 ).
Clear the entry box.
Send the 'reset' command to the MC-1 CPU.

Step-2: Reset 'b2term' to look for the 'sign-on message'.

Click on the 'Reset' button with the left button of your mouse. You should see a 'MC-1 Ver 7.0 - Hello World!' message from the MC-1 CPU each time you do this as you are toggling the 'Reset' line via the MC-1 Programmer pcb.

Do not try sending the commands listed via the entry box because you will not get an answer! This will need to wait until we put a 'real' program on-board the MC-1 CPU to reply!