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... MHz – 20 MHz kHz – 33 kHz, respectively. Parallax, Propeller, Spin, and the Parallax and Propeller logos are trademarks of Parallax, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective holders. Copyright © Parallax Inc. Figure 1: Propeller P8X32A Block Diagram Table 1: Propeller Chip Stock Codes External ...
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... Temperature Characteristics.....................................30 10.1. Internal Oscillator Frequency as a Function of Temperature.... 30 10.2. Fastest Operating Frequency as a Function of Temperature ... 31 10.3. Current Consumption as a Function of Temperature ............... 32 11.0 Package Dimensions..................................................33 11.1. P8X32A-D40 (40-pin DIP)........................................................ 33 11.2. P8X32A-Q44 (44-pin LQFP) .................................................... 34 11.3. P8X32A-M44 (44-pin QFN)...................................................... 35 12.0 Manufacturing Information ........................................36 12.1. Reflow Peak Temperature ....................................................... 36 12.2. Green/RoHS Compliance ........................................................ 36 Page www.parallax.com Rev 1.0 11/14/2007 ...
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... Page Programming Platform Support Clip (#32200) and These boards provide o P8X32A-Q44 Propeller Chip o 24LC256-I/ST EEPROM for program storage o Replaceable 5.000 MHz crystal o 3.3 V and 5 V regulators with on/off switch o USB-to-serial interface for programming and communication o VGA and TV output o Stereo output with 16 Ω headphone amplifier ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 2.0 CONNECTION DIAGRAMS 2.1. Pin Assignments LQFP and QFN Packages 2.2. Pin Descriptions Pin Name Direction Description General purpose I/O Port A. Can source/sink 40 mA each at 3.3 VDC. CMOS level logic with threshold of ≈ ½ VDD or 1.6 VDC @ 3.3 VDC. The pins shown below have a special purpose upon power-up/reset but are general purpose I/O P0 – ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 2.3. Typical Connection Diagrams 2.3.1. Propeller Clip or Propeller Plug Connection - Recommended Note that the connections to the external oscillator and EEPROM, which are enclosed in dashed lines, are optional. Propeller Clip, Stock #32200; Propeller Plug, Stock #32201. The Propeller Clip/Plug schematic is available for download from www ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 3.0 OPERATING PROCEDURES 3.1. Boot-Up Procedure Upon power-up, or reset: 1. The Propeller chip’s internal RC oscillator begins running at 20 kHz, then after reset delay, switches to 12 MHz. Then the first processor (Cog 0) loads and runs the built-in Boot Loader program. ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 4.3. Cogs (processors) The Propeller contains eight (8) identical, independent processors, called cogs, numbered contains a Processor block, local 2 KB RAM configured as 512 longs (512 x 32 bits), two advanced counter modules with PLLs, a Video Generator, I/O Output Register, I/O Direction Register, and other registers not shown in the Block Diagram. All eight cogs are driven from the System Clock ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 4.5. I/O Pins The Propeller has 32 I/O pins which are general purpose. I/O Pins have a special purpose at boot up and are available for general purpose use afterwards; see section 2.2, page 4. After boot up, any I/O pins can be used by any cogs at any time. ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 4.8. Cog Counters Each cog has two counter modules: CTRA and CTRB. Each counter module can control or monitor up to two I/O pins and perform conditional 32-bit accumulation of its FRQ register into its PHS register on every clock cycle. Each counter module also has its own phase-locked loop (PLL) which can be used to synthesize frequencies up to 128 MHz ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet Table 6: Counter Modes (CTRMODE Field Values) CTRMODE Description %00000 Counter disabled (off) %00001 PLL internal (video mode) %00010 PLL single-ended %00011 PLL differential %00100 NCO single-ended %00101 NCO differential %00110 DUTY single-ended %00111 DUTY differential %01000 POS detector ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet The 2-bit VMode (video mode) field selects the type and orientation of video output, if any, according to Table 8. Table 8: The Video Mode Field VMode Video Mode Disabled, no video generated. 00 VGA mode; 8-bit parallel output on VPins 7:0 01 Composite Mode 1; broadcast on VPins 7:4, baseband ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet VGA mode, each 8-bit color value is written to the pins specified by the VGroup and VPins field. For VGA typically the 8 bits are grouped into 2 bits per primary color and Horizontal and Vertical Sync control lines, but this the software and application of how these bits are used ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 4.10. CLK Register The CLK register is the System Clock configuration control; it determines the source and characteristics of the System Clock. It configures the RC Oscillator, Clock PLL, Crystal Oscillator, and Clock Selector circuits (See the Block Diagram, page 1 configured at compile time by the _CLKMODE declaration and is writable at run time through the CLKSET command ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 5.0 MEMORY ORGANIZATION 5.1. Main Memory The Main Memory is a block bytes (16 K longs) that is accessible by all cogs as a mutually-exclusive resource through the Hub. It consists RAM and ROM. Main memory is byte, word and long addressable. ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet As shown in Figure 6, The character pairs are merged row-by-row such that each character's 16 horizontal pixels are spaced apart and interleaved with their neighbors' so that the even character takes bits ...30, and the odd character takes bits ...31. The leftmost pixels are in the lowest bits, while the rightmost pixels are in the highest bits ...
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... Words Reserved for Future Use • DIRB, INB, and OUTB: Reserved for future use with a possible 64 I/O pin model. When used with the P8X32A, these labels can be used to access Cog RAM at those locations for general-purpose use. • ENC, MUL, MULS, ONES: Use with the current P8X32A architecture yields indeterminate results. ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 6.2. Math and Logic Operators Operator 1 Level 2 Normal Assign Integer always -- always ++ always ~ Highest always ~~ (0) always ? never @ never @@ never + if solo - if solo ^^ 1 if solo || if solo |< if solo >| if solo ! <- <-= -> ->= << <<= 2 >> >>= ~> ~>= >< ><= 3 & & **= ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 6.3. Spin Language Summary Table Spin Command 〈 〉 Value ABORT 〈 〉 BYTE Symbol [Count] 〈 〉 〈 〉 Symbol BYTE Data [Count] 〈 〉 BYTE [BaseAddress] [Offset] 〈 〉 . Symbol BYTE [Offset Value Count) BYTEFILL (StartAddress ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet Spin Command ┆ Condition(s) IF IFNOT IfStatement(s) 〈 ELSEIF Condition(s) 〉 ElseIfStatement(s) … 〈 ELSEIFNOT Condition(s) 〉 ElseIfStatement(s) … 〈 ELSE 〉 ElseStatement(s) 〈 〉 INA [Pin(s)] LOCKCLR (ID) LOCKNEW LOCKRET (ID) LOCKSET (ID) 〈 〉 LONG Symbol [Count] 〈 〉 ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet Spin Command STRSIZE (StringAddress) TRUNC (FloatConstant) VAR ┆ 〈 〉 〈(( )) Size Symbol Size [Count] , VCFG VSCL WAITCNT (Value) WAITPEQ (State, Mask, Port) WAITPNE (State, Mask, Port) WAITVID (Colors, Pixels) 〈 〉 WORD Symbol [Count] 〈 〉 ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 6.4. Propeller Assembly Instruction Table The Propeller Assembly Instruction Table lists the instruction’s 32-bit opcode, outputs and number of clock cycles. The opcode consists of the instruction bits ( ( ), the conditional execution bits ( zcri Z and C flags, if any, is shown in the ( ) shows the instruction’s default behavior for writing (1) or not writing (0) the instruction’s result value. The R shows the number of clocks the instruction requires for execution ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet iiiiii zcri cccc ddddddddd sssssssss 010111 0011 1111 ????????? sssssssss 010111 0001 1111 --------- --------- 011000 000i 1111 ddddddddd sssssssss 011001 000i 1111 ddddddddd sssssssss 011000 001i 1111 ddddddddd sssssssss 011001 001i 1111 ddddddddd sssssssss 011010 001i 1111 ddddddddd sssssssss ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 6.4.1. Assembly Conditions Condition Instruction Executes always IF_ALWAYS never IF_NEVER if equal (Z) IF_E if not equal (!Z) IF_NE if above (!C & !Z) IF_A if below (C) IF_B if above/equal (!C) IF_AE if below/equal ( IF_BE if C set IF_C if C clear IF_NC if Z set IF_Z if Z clear IF_NZ if C equal to Z ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 7.0 PROPELLER DEMO BOARD SCHEMATIC The Propeller Demo Board (Stock #32100) provides convenient connections to 32K EEPROM, replaceable 5 MHz crystal and 5 V regulators, USB-to-serial programming/communication interface, VGA and NTSC video output, stereo output with 16 Ω headphone amplifier, microphone input, two PS2 mouse and keyboard jacks, eight LEDs, eight free I/O pins brought to a header for breadboard for prototyping, and a ground post for an oscilloscope probe. Overall PCB size: 3" ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 8.0 ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS 8.1. Absolute Maximum Ratings Stresses in excess of the absolute maximum ratings can cause permanent damage to the device. These are absolute stress ratings only. Functional operation of the device is not implied at these or any other conditions in excess of those given in the remainder of Section 7 ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 9.0 CURRENT CONSUMPTION CHARACTERISTICS 9.1. Typical Current Consumption of 8 Cogs This figure shows the typical current consumption of the Propeller under various operating conditions duplicated across all cogs. Brown out circuitry and the Phase-Locked Loop were disabled for the duration of the test. Current consumption is substantially constant over the operational temperature range. Copyright © ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 9.2. Typical Current of a Cog vs. Operating Frequency This graph shows a cog’s typical current consumption under various conditions, in isolation of other sources of current within the Propeller chip. Typical Current of a Cog vs. Operating Frequency (Vdd = 3 25° Spin Loop (REPEAT) ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 9.4. Typical Crystal Drive Current This graph shows the current consumption of the crystal driver over a range of crystal frequencies and crystal settings, all data points above 25 MHz were obtained by using a resonator since the driver does not perform 3 driving required for crystals over 25 MHz. ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 9.6. Current Profile at Various Startup Conditions The diagrams below show the current profile for various startup conditions of the Propeller chip dependent upon the presence of an EEPROM and PC. Figure 7 Boot Sequence Current Profile for no PC and no EEPROM (P31 held low and P29 not connected (same as held low)) ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 10.0 TEMPERATURE CHARACTERISTICS 10.1. Internal Oscillator Frequency as a Function of Temperature While the internal oscillator frequency is variable due to process variation, the rate of change as a function of temperature when normalized provides a chip invariant ratio which can be used to calculate the oscillation frequency when the ambient temperature is other than 25 ° ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 10.2. Fastest Operating Frequency as a Function of Temperature The following graph represents a small sample average of a Propeller chip’s fastest operating range. The test was performed in a forced air chamber using code run on all eight cogs, multiple video generators, and counter modules. A frequency was considered successful if the demo ran without fault for one minute. The curves represent an aggressive testing procedure (averaged, forced air, one minute time limit) ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 10.3. Current Consumption as a Function of Temperature The following graph demonstrates the current consumption of the Propeller as a function of temperature clear from the graph that current consumption is nearly independent of temperature over the entire military temperature range. Current Consumption vs Temperature ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 11.0 PACKAGE DIMENSIONS 11.1. P8X32A-D40 (40-pin DIP) Copyright © Parallax Inc. Page www.parallax.com Rev 1.0 11/14/2007 ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 11.2. P8X32A-Q44 (44-pin LQFP) Copyright © Parallax Inc. Page www.parallax.com Rev 1.0 11/14/2007 ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 11.3. P8X32A-M44 (44-pin QFN) Copyright © Parallax Inc. Page www.parallax.com Rev 1.0 11/14/2007 ...
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... Propeller™ P8X32A Datasheet 12.0 MANUFACTURING INFORMATION 12.1. Reflow Peak Temperature Package Type Reflow Peak Temp. DIP LQFP QFN Parallax Sales and Tech Support Contact Information For the latest information on Propeller chips and programming tools, development boards, instructional materials, and application examples, please visit www.parallax.com/propeller. ...