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| matherp Guru  Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 9122 |
As the title says. I'm looking for volunteers to test a new release of the MMX firmware. A new release would have lots of the Pico functionality, escape sequences, regular expressions, jpg decoding, Performance improvements, + new displays e.g. the 800x480 IPS displays like the ARMMITEF407. I would also try and incorporate as much of the advanced CMM2 functionality as possible. In terms of performance, the MMX beats everything except the ArmmiteH7/CMM2 including a Pico clocked at 378MHz and has lots of memory (>300K variable memory/program size) Let me know if interested For reference compatible PIC32MZ are in stock at Farnell UK at prices from about GBP11.80 and I have previously posted a number of PCB designs for these chips, 64-pin, 100-pin and 144-pin Edited 2023-08-24 20:36 by matherp |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 6100 |
I do have a MMX in the cupboard so I could do some testing for you. I don't have much of a range of displays etc but plenty of other peripheral modules. Jim VK7JH MMedit MMBasic Help |
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CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2075 |
I have a couple, the standard "red" board and the lovely "Navigation" issue. both are in (almost) daily use here, the red one is in my workshop assistant GP machine... I don't have specific needs as everything is covered but who knows what will happen when the opportunity is there  Don't go to any trouble unless you get more support. cheers h |
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disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 897 |
I have one. If you are implementing the usual suspects, CMDLINE$ ,EXECUTE, CALL sub and CALL function I can run some of the automated tests I have been using. These use a modified versions of Tom's unit test frame work from the SDCard. Gerry Edited 2023-08-24 22:59 by disco4now Latest F4 Latest H7 |
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| circuit Senior Member  Joined: 10/01/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 245 |
WOW, YES please! As you say, this is chip is the best; absolutely my favourite. |
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| CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2075 |
just occurred to me, would the update include Gerry Allardice (disco4now)'s recent work? I use LIBRARY a lot |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 9122 |
Not sure what you mean. MMX already has library command |
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| CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2075 |
with all the updates that occurred recently, I thought the LIBRARY command had gone west(?) and Gerry had recently restored it in his F4 version of the FW. Maybe I am getting confused... easy done |
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| circuit Senior Member Joined: 10/01/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 245 |
MM Extreme is the business! Hook up an SSD1963 screen and wire in a USB socket, put in a dongle for a wireless keyboard ...and simply what other MicroMite is so stunning? It works with a mouse ...and even a camera. 144 pins for comprehensive expansion. It really is simply the best! Come on, folks, dig out the MM Extremes - or build a new one now that the chips are available once again. |
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| athlon1900 Regular Member  Joined: 10/10/2019 Location: AustriaPosts: 48 |
Waiting so long for an MMX update. Yes please ! Thanks peter  PS: Maybe with a free SPI-port choice for the display , like with the SD card. That would be great.  Edited 2023-08-25 07:08 by athlon1900 |
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panky Guru Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1101 |
Yes please Peter, I have a 144 pin 'red' board with 7" SSD1963 and a 'black' 100 pin navigator board with 4.5" SSD1963 I can assist with. Also, if you would like assistance with the manual, I would be happy to take that on (like the MMB4W manual). Doug. ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 9122 |
Thanks for the support. I'll put some work in and post a beta on a new thread. panky: your offer on the manual is greatly appreciated. Send me a PM with your email address and I'll send you the current version. You may want to get the Armmite source off Gerry for some large-scale cut-and-paste |
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| CaptainBoing Guru Joined: 07/09/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 2075 |
dangerous territory, but if you are open to wish-lists for basic language enhancements; an SPI READ X$,len would be a nice touch. Good counterpoint to the WRITE jus' sayin' Edited 2023-08-25 18:07 by CaptainBoing |
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| disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 897 |
+ CHOICE Latest F4 Latest H7 |
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Bryan1 Guru Joined: 22/02/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1344 |
Well this afternoon at work I finally got to have a chat with the IT guy who has been trying for 12 months to get this custom machine working. Ok it's a hopper based appliance that takes photo's of single parts as it they travel thru the setup, so 3 camera's and a blower system for ejecting the defect parts. I said to the guy how is all setup and are what embedded board are you using where I got a blank face  When I got a look at the screen and saw it had windows on it my comment of it's taken you 12 months to get nowhere that is your problem where a micromite would be a perfect job. Now would the MMX output to a VGA/TFT monitor so a big screen can be used. For an embedded solution to make a machine work and the youth of today thinking windows can solve everything a huge reset is due and I did him to take a look at this forum and just learn  Cheers Bryan |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 9122 |
Here is a little taster of the performance improvements in my working beta vs V5.04.09 both running at 252MHz test 5.04.09 5.07.01b0 Solar eclipse (secs) 68.452 20.187 Grainbench (grains/30s) 4729 5886 Lines/sec test 95673 178028 TA empty loop (msec) 5898 2254 TA file read (msec) 177305 167246 TA file write (msec) 114392 119952 TA parse (msec) 51871 34622 TA extract (msec) 27571 19853 BM1 (sec) 0.007 0.004 BM2 (sec) 0.046 0.026 BM3 (sec) 0.068 0.043 BM4 (sec) 0.076 0.039 BM5 (sec) 0.127 0.077 BM6 (sec) 0.192 0.112 BM7 (sec) 0.277 0.165 BM8 (sec) 0.127 0.060 BM9 (sec) Note in particular the huge gain in a more complex program with a larger number of variables (solar eclipse) PCB designs here and here and here Edited 2023-08-25 21:26 by matherp |
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| Volhout Guru Joined: 05/03/2018 Location: NetherlandsPosts: 4243 |
And the graphics improved dramatically (2x). Volhout PicomiteVGA PETSCII ROBOTS |
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palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1873 |
I resurrected my 144 board, I can't remember how far I got with it. I can't get the RTC to work. Using Option RTC 15,16 I get RTC not responding. Is the fact that the module has 4.7k pullups and the board also has 10k pullups a problem. I've tried 3 RTC modules and checked the battery. Edit... I removed the pullups from the RTC module and still have the problem. Edited 2023-08-26 16:16 by palcal "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" |
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| panky Guru Joined: 02/10/2012 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1101 |
@palcal Have a look at this link Extreme Update - there are a number of explanatory notes including a reference to the rtc. panky ... almost all of the Maximites, the MicromMites, the MM Extremes, the ArmMites, the PicoMite and loving it! |
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| palcal Guru Joined: 12/10/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1873 |
@ Panky, I think WW put pins each end for support they just duplicate the connections. I have checked the SDA and SCL connections back to the chip and all OK. I will try putting the RTC on I2C 2 and see if that works. Edit.....All good, my bad, pin 16 was not making contact, resoldered. A bit hard at my age soldering a 144 pin chip. Edited 2023-08-27 08:45 by palcal "It is better to be ignorant and ask a stupid question than to be plain Stupid and not ask at all" |
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