Register Read

Getting this bit too work took a bit longer than expected. The code below works but isn’t super efficient. I must be reading the SX1276 SPI timing diagram wrong or I need to read the .NetMF SPI implementation code some more.

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namespace devMobile.NetMF.Rfm9X.RegisterRead
{
   using System;
   using System.Threading;
   using Microsoft.SPOT;
   using Microsoft.SPOT.Hardware;
   using SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware;
   using SecretLabs.NETMF.Hardware.Netduino;

   public class Program
   {

      public static void Main()
      {
         //OutputPort reset = new OutputPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_D9, true);
         OutputPort chipSelect = null;
         //chipSelect = new OutputPort(Pins.GPIO_PIN_D10, true);
         //SPI spiPort = new SPI(new SPI.Configuration(Pins.GPIO_NONE, false, 0, 0, true, true, 500, SPI.SPI_module.SPI1));
         SPI spiPort = new SPI(new SPI.Configuration(Pins.GPIO_PIN_D10, false, 0, 0, false, true, 500, SPI.SPI_module.SPI1));

         Thread.Sleep(100);

         while (true)
         {
            //byte[] writeBuffer = new byte[] { 0x42 }; // RegVersion exptecing 0x12
            byte[] writeBuffer = new byte[] { 0x06 }; // RegFreqMsb expecting 0x6C
            //byte[] writeBuffer = new byte[] { 0x07 }; // RegFreqMid expecting 0x80
            //byte[] writeBuffer = new byte[] { 0x08 }; // RegFreqLsb expecting 0x00
            byte[] readBuffer = new byte[1];

            if (chipSelect != null)
            {
               chipSelect.Write(false);
            }
            spiPort.WriteRead(writeBuffer, readBuffer, 1);
            if (chipSelect != null)
            {
               chipSelect.Write(true);
            }

            Debug.Print("Value = 0x" + BytesToHexString(readBuffer));

            Thread.Sleep(1000);
         }
      }

      private static string BytesToHexString(byte[] bytes)
      {
         string hexString = string.Empty;

         // Create a character array for hexidecimal conversion.
         const string hexChars = "0123456789ABCDEF";

         // Loop through the bytes.
         for (byte b = 0; b  0)
               hexString += "-";

            // Grab the top 4 bits and append the hex equivalent to the return string.
            hexString += hexChars[bytes[b] >> 4];

            // Mask off the upper 4 bits to get the rest of it.
            hexString += hexChars[bytes[b] & 0x0F];
         }

         return hexString;
      }
   }
}

The output indicated that I could success fully read the middle byte (of three) of the transmit frequency and it matched the default. There seems to be something odd about the chip select line/ sequencing

The thread '' (0x2) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Value = 0xE4
Value = 0xE4
Value = 0xE4
Value = 0xE4
Value = 0xE4
Value = 0xE4

It’s late, so the next step will be scanning the SX1276 registers and starting to build out the register manager code to read+write byte values, word values and arrays.

Also noticed that setup seems to work a bit better on a Netduino3 device, have noticed this before with higher power consumption shields.