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    A/D Converter For Robots: Tilo Gockel

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    The TLC549 analogue to digital converter from Texas Instruments is well-suited for robotics applications using 8051 microcontrollers. It is readily available, low-cost, and easy to use. The data sheet shows the timing waveforms for the I/O clock, data out, and chip select signals. A simple test circuit was built with a variable resistor to test the converter. A short C function is provided to read the serial data from the converter and return the value. As an example, two converters could be used with a microcontroller to measure light levels from two light dependent resistors.

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    The TLC549 analogue to digital converter from Texas Instruments is well-suited for robotics applications using 8051 microcontrollers. It is readily available, low-cost, and easy to use. The data sheet shows the timing waveforms for the I/O clock, data out, and chip select signals. A simple test circuit was built with a variable resistor to test the converter. A short C function is provided to read the serial data from the converter and return the value. As an example, two converters could be used with a microcontroller to measure light levels from two light dependent resistors.

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    The TLC549 analogue to digital converter from Texas Instruments is well-suited for robotics applications using 8051 microcontrollers. It is readily available, low-cost, and easy to use. The data sheet shows the timing waveforms for the I/O clock, data out, and chip select signals. A simple test circuit was built with a variable resistor to test the converter. A short C function is provided to read the serial data from the converter and return the value. As an example, two converters could be used with a microcontroller to measure light levels from two light dependent resistors.

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    A/D Converter For Robots: Tilo Gockel

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    The TLC549 analogue to digital converter from Texas Instruments is well-suited for robotics applications using 8051 microcontrollers. It is readily available, low-cost, and easy to use. The data sheet shows the timing waveforms for the I/O clock, data out, and chip select signals. A simple test circuit was built with a variable resistor to test the converter. A short C function is provided to read the serial data from the converter and return the value. As an example, two converters could be used with a microcontroller to measure light levels from two light dependent resistors.

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    A/D Converter for Robots

    Tilo Gockel
    operating sequence
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
    The TLC549CP analogue to digital con- Don’t Care
    I/O
    verter (A/D) from Texas Instruments is a CLOCK
    Access Access Sample
    tconv
    good choice for applications in the field of tsu(CS)
    Cycle B Sample
    Cycle B (see Note A)
    Cycle C Cycle C
    tsu(CS)
    robotics (especially those using 8051-com-
    patible microcontrollers). These particular CS

    converters are readily available, low-cost twH(CS)


    Hi-Z State
    and easy to use. DATA A7 A6 A5 A4 A3 A2 A1 A0
    Hi-Z State
    B7 B6 B5 B4 B3 B2 B1 B0
    OUT
    A quick look at the TLC549data sheet A7 B7
    indicates the timing waveforms for the I/ MSB
    Previous Conversion Data A
    LSB MSB
    Conversion Data B
    MSB LSB MSB
    O Clock, DATA OUT and CS signals (Fig- (see Note B) ten
    ten
    ure 1). A circuit to test the converter was
    NOTES: A. The conversion cycle, which requires 36 internal system clock periods (17 µs maximum), is initiated with the eighth I/O clock pulse
    quickly constructed using a variable resis- trailing edge after CS goes low for the channel whose address exists in memory at the time.
    tor as a potential divider. Figure 2 shows B. The most significant bit (A7) is automatically placed on the DATA OUT bus after CS is brought low. The remaining seven bits (A6–A0)
    are clocked out on the first seven I/O clock falling edges. B7–B0 follows in the same manner.
    the simple interface between a TLC549CP
    and a 8051-compatible microcontroller.
    A short function which reads the serial
    data from the TLC549 and returns the +5VDC
    value addat is given below. Tests with an µC51
    AT89S8252 Controller-Board (the Elektor
    Electronics December 2005 Flash Micro
    Board) indicated that the _wait() can be
    1 8
    omitted because the controller runs slowly REF+ VCC

    enough not to need it (faster processors TLC549


    7
    may require it but it has been ‘commented I/O CLOCK Px.x

    out’ in this listing). The actual function DATA OUT


    6
    A7 A6 A5 A4 A3 A2 A1 A0 Px.x
    2
    written in C is: ANALOG 5
    Px.x
    10k
    unsigned char ReadADC1() { 3 4
    REF- GND
    unsigned char count;
    unsigned char addat = 0;
    P1_B2 = 0; // clk 070134 - 12
    P3_B0 = 0; // Chip Select
    P3_B0 = 1; //
    //_wait(); // > 20 usek (50kHz)
    P3_B0 = 0; P1_B2 = 0;
    } measure the amount of light falling onto
    for(count = 0; count
    return addat; two Light Dependant Resistors (LDR). This
    < 8; count++){
    addat = addat << 1; } application will require two of the inter-
    if (P1_B3 == 1) ++addat; face connections shown in Figure 2. Con-
    P1_B2 = 1; As an example two TLC549 A/D convert- nect the LDR either in place of the variable
    //_wait(); ers can be wired to a microcontroller to resistor or in parallel to it.
    (070134-I)

     elektor electronics - 7-8/2007

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