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9 years, 6 months ago.
The LPC812MAX and the PCF8591 I2C ADC
Hi All - newbie question here...
I have an LPC812MAX board, which I've got hooked up to LPCXpresso. I've got to the flashing LEDs stage reasonably easily.
Seeing the PCF8591 on the board, I thought I had an easy route to making a battery monitor application with this thing.
I'm not finding anything on NXP's website about this ADC chip or any decent support for theboard, other than a reference in the board's sales literature. The NXP weblinks to the board's details are broken.
So - I have found Wim Huiskamp's PCF8591 C++ library on this site, which looks just the thing.
I think my question boils down to....
Is it going to be easier to
a) try and port Wim's library to compile within LPCXpresso (assuming that's a sensible question)
or
b) start again with what I assume would be the mbed toolchain
It seems to me the big advantage of LPCXpresso is that I can just plug in a USB cable and get on with it, whereas I've only just discovered this mbed site and suspect there may be yet another learning curve :-(
Any thoughts gratefully received - I'm swimming in acronyms at the moment, and could do with some help.
Jeff
1 Answer
9 years, 6 months ago.
Hi,
you can use the online IDE for your development, or export any program/library to the offline tools. Or the third one, look at mbed github repository https://github.com/mbedmicro/mbed, where you can get mbed SDK and do everything offline.
Regards,
0xc0170
Aha! I see - I've just found the online compiler - that was easy - genius!
posted by Jeff Adams 23 Oct 2014