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== Circuit ==
== Circuit ==

[[Image:Wireless-circuit.jpg|thumb|Thumbnailed image]]


The wireless chip has 8 pins that need to be wired to the PIC:
The wireless chip has 8 pins that need to be wired to the PIC:
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The +3.3V and ground are provided by the NU32 board. The term "uC" above stands for microcontroller, which is the PIC32 in our case. GPIO stands for General Purpose Input/Output.
The +3.3V and ground are provided by the NU32 board. The term "uC" above stands for microcontroller, which is the PIC32 in our case. GPIO stands for General Purpose Input/Output.


Descriptions of the wireless chip's pins can be found in Brennan Ball's DIYembedded [http://www.diyembedded.com/tutorials/nrf24l01_0/nrf24l01_tutorial_0.pdf Tutorial 0] (written for the PIC18, but still applies in our case). The SCK, MOSI, and MISO pins interface with the SPI on the PIC32. The GPIO pins will be initialized as digital inputs or outputs in the code.
Descriptions of the wireless chip's pins can be found in Brennan Ball's DIYembedded [http://www.diyembedded.com/tutorials/nrf24l01_0/nrf24l01_tutorial_0.pdf Tutorial 0] (written for the PIC18, but still applies in our case). The SCK, MOSI, and MISO pins interface with the SPI on the PIC32. The GPIO pins will be initialized as digital inputs or outputs in the code.

[[Image:Wireless-circuit.jpg|thumb|Thumbnailed image]]


== Code ==
== Code ==

Revision as of 12:52, 15 February 2010

Original Assignment

Do not erase this section!

Your assignment is to create the circuit and code that allows two PIC32s to use wireless communication at high speeds using the Transceiver nRF24L01+ Module with Chip Antenna from Sparkfun.

Read up on the nRF24L01+ Module commands and create functions to allow a PIC32 to initialize and send and receive data.

Test your code by sending 1000 bytes of data from one PIC32 to the other and echo the data back. How long does this transmission take? How far can you separate the PIC32s before the transmission is unreliable?

Final Project Goal

Transmit a byte of data (e.g. a character) from one PIC32/nRF24L01+ board to the other board, and display the received character on a PC screen.

Overview

This wiki describes how to wire a nRF24L01+ chip ("wireless chip") to the transmitting PIC32 board ("transmitter") and receiving PIC32 board ("receiver"), and includes annotated code describing the functions that facilitate the wireless communication.

Circuit

Thumbnailed image

The wireless chip has 8 pins that need to be wired to the PIC: (1) Vcc -> +3.3 Vdc supply (2) CE -> uC pin PORTC.1, configured as GPIO/input (3) CSN -> uC pin PORTC.2, configured as GPIO/output (4) SCK -> uC pin PORTC.3/SCK, configured as SCK(SPI)/output (5) MOSI -> uC pin PORTC.5/SDO, configured as SDO(SPI)/output (6) MISO -> uC pin PORTC.4/SDI, configured as SDI(SPI)/input (7) IRQ -> uC pin PORTB.0, configured as GPIO/input (8) GND -> common digital ground

The +3.3V and ground are provided by the NU32 board. The term "uC" above stands for microcontroller, which is the PIC32 in our case. GPIO stands for General Purpose Input/Output.

Descriptions of the wireless chip's pins can be found in Brennan Ball's DIYembedded Tutorial 0 (written for the PIC18, but still applies in our case). The SCK, MOSI, and MISO pins interface with the SPI on the PIC32. The GPIO pins will be initialized as digital inputs or outputs in the code.

Code

Where possible, make it a single piece of well-commented cut-and-pastable code, or at least make each function that way, so others can easily copy it. Most comments should be in the code itself; outside the code (on the wiki) should only be explanatory comments that are too cumbersome to include in the code.