TI-RSLK MAX Module 11 - Lab video 3 – Demonstrate UART interface
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The purpose of this lab is to provide real-time debugging using a universal asynchronous receiver transmitter. For this lab, you'll just need the LaunchPad. In this particular portion of the lab, we interface the UART here through the USB cable. And that creates a communication channel between the microcontroller and the PC.
OK, let me show you how it works. Over here in Code Composer Studio is the Lab 11 solution. And you can see, it's a very simple output process.
All right, let's do a debug, which will download the code onto the LaunchPad. And then over in Texas Display, we can see the output. All right, so let's go back and run the program.
And you can see here on Texas Display, we have a real-time output from the software. In this lab, you learned about the universal asynchronous receiver transmitter, busy wait synchronization, and the decimal to ASCII conversion. The essence of debugging involves control and observability. A UART on your robot doesn't make it go faster, but it does give you a convenient way to observe what the robot is thinking. Have fun.
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The TI Robotics System Learning Kit MAX (TI-RSLK MAX) curriculm modules
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