Program Help

[Timmymna]

I am trying to write a program for a project which includes a PIC connected to a DS1307 real time clock and 24LC64 serial EEPROM but I can't find anything on writing a Basic program for these. Both will be using I2C and will connected seperately to simplify the program plus I have enough free ports for this. If anyone knows any tutorials or could give me a simple program I would be very greatful

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I am trying to write a program for a project which includes a PIC connected to a DS1307 real time clock and 24LC64 serial EEPROM but I can't find anything on writing a Basic program for these. Both will be using I2C and will connected seperately to simplify the program plus I have enough free ports for this. If anyone knows any tutorials or could give me a simple program I would be very greatful

I can't help you with BASIC code, but there are I2C routines in my tutorials. Also connecting them separately won't simplify things, it will make it more complicated - I2C is designed (and intended) to connect all devices on a single bus. If you connected them separately you would access them exactly the same as you would on the same bus, but have to do it twice.

 

[Timmymna]

Thanks for the reply, I've worked it out now
I have another question though.
I am reading the value for the month from the real time clock but its as a number such as 0 - jan, 1 - feb, 2 - mar etc, and wanted to write some code so I could display the month name rather than the number. Could I do this with a lookup table or would I have to do something like
if month = 0 then monthname = "jan"
if month = 2 then monthname = "feb"

Any help is much appreciated

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Thanks for the reply, I've worked it out now
I have another question though.
I am reading the value for the month from the real time clock but its as a number such as 0 - jan, 1 - feb, 2 - mar etc, and wanted to write some code so I could display the month name rather than the number. Could I do this with a lookup table or would I have to do something like
if month = 0 then monthname = "jan"
if month = 2 then monthname = "feb"

Any help is much appreciated

The classic way would be a string array, but I don't know if your BASIC allows them. Lookup tables generally only return a single byte.
Does your compiler allow Case/End Case statements, you could use that, if not your If/Then solution looks favourite.