S_IN and S_OUT ports on the Atom Pro + Bot Board

Lynxmotion Electronics & Software
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Is it possible to use these serial ports? This topic is carried over from the General Programming section of the forums.

I’ve checked the AtomPro8000 manual regarding this and it doesn’t state how to address this.

Several users have mentioned that S_IN and S_OUT is a soft-serial (bit banging). How do I initialize this port? Do I treat the initialization like other pins, and instead of setting up a serial connection on say P12, do I just substitute “S_IN” or “S_OUT” in its place?

How about baud rate? Does the S_IN and S_OUT have a fixed baudrate or is it selectable? What about the logic levels? I’m assuming that S_IN and S_OUT is already at RS232 levels since according to the mini-ABB schematic, it is going straight into the DB9 connector to interface with the RS232 port on the PC…

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Here is an example of one I am using right now to try to debug some code:

serout S_OUT, i2400, [hex fProcessingPulses," ",hex fPulseTimingsBusy, " ", hex bWkpWhich, " ", hex lLastPulse, 13,10] ;p