Joep Suijs wrote: > 2009/2/21 Wayne Topa <[email protected]>: >> My opinion is not going to make me any friends > Maybe. But my guess is you won't loose any either on this list by > giving your opinion.
Hi Joep I sure hope you are right! > > My conclusion is that mimic the K107 maybi is not the best way to go > (even appart from the IP issue you describe). > > There is a lot of nice code around and our main task would be to merge > them without duplicating code (and remove quirks if any). > > For this, it is important to create the right API for the first > implementation and use this API for all successive implementations, > like Richard did by implementing the HD44780 interface for his dogm > lib. > Our current hd44780 interface is clear but limited - the controller > has much more features that are not supported directly via the API > (although Richard's hd44780 lib does). From your post I think I may have mistakenly sent most of the K107 information and links to Seb, and not Cc'ed the list. My apologies to the list. The K107 is a LCD Controller Board that provides a serial interface to a standard LCD display. It is based upon a controller chip (PIC 16f628/16f648) and circuit designed by Professor Peter Anderson (www.phanderson.com) at Morgan State University. He sells these chips and the K107 PCB makers use them on their boards. The K107 does not use any of the HD44780 LDC routines. The controller has a one serial input to control the LCD and only requires the serial_software.jal library. As the controller has numerous commands to accomplish this control, I would refer you the the manual for the Board/Software. It also does more then just control the LCD as the board has 4 General Purpose outputs that are controlled via the same serial interface. You can download the manual from <http://www/wulfden.org/downloads/manuals/k107manual.pdf> > The only 'library' I was planning on was for the commands. There are so many I thought it would be a help when programming to have them in a form that would be easier to read (remember). On second thought, it would be better if I just put them in the Docs section, with examples. Again, I apologize to the group for my omission. Regards Wayne --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jallib" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jallib?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
