arm thumb2 assembly

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rhubarbdog
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arm thumb2 assembly

Post by rhubarbdog » Mon Aug 20, 2018 4:17 am

Has any one got examples of using the arm thumb2 assembly language.
In particular i want to have a function that takes a pin and a bytearray as parameters.
in a while loop until a terminal condition is met the code is

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index=0
while not Terminal_Condition:
  x=pinX.read_digital()
  storage[index]=x
  index+=1
Any digital sensors that use a 1 wire protocol to transmit their data can't be used on the microbit, micropython just runs too slow. I've looked on github and someone has written an extension to microbit micropython to handle bit banging. It's just never been accepted.
I thought writing a bit bang function in assembler may be the answer it's just there's a lack of examples out there.

thanks

shaoziyang
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Re: arm thumb2 assembly

Post by shaoziyang » Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:47 am

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from microbit import *

display.show('S')

def get_serial_number(type=hex):
    NRF_FICR_BASE = 0x10000000
    DEVICEID_INDEX = 25 # deviceid[1]

    @micropython.asm_thumb
    def reg_read(r0):
        ldr(r0, [r0, 0])
    return type(reg_read(NRF_FICR_BASE + (DEVICEID_INDEX*4)))
    
while True:
    if button_a.was_pressed():
        display.scroll(get_serial_number())
        sleep(1000)
        display.show('S')
        
    sleep(100)

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Re: arm thumb2 assembly

Post by dhylands » Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:18 pm

I have an example here: https://github.com/dhylands/bioloid3/bl ... rt_port.py (the _write_packet routine).

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Re: arm thumb2 assembly

Post by pythoncoder » Tue Aug 21, 2018 8:51 am

Peter Hinch
Index to my micropython libraries.

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