A Versatile Temperature Data Logger using PIC12F683 and DS1820

Introduction
There are varieties of digital temperature logger projects available online based on different microcontrollers. The one I am going to talk about is based on a Microchip's 8-pin microcontroller, PIC12F683. It reads temperature values from a DS1820 digital sensor and stores in its internal EEPROM. PIC12F683 has 256 bytes of internal EEPROM and we are going to store the temperature values in 8-bit format. This means only the eight most significant bits of temperature data from DS1820 will be read and as such the temperature resolution will be of 1 degree C.

My temperature logger has following features:

• Reads temperature from a DS1820 sensor and stores in the internal EEPROM locations.
• Can store up to 254 temperature values. EEPROM location 0 is used to store the sampling interval, and location 1 is used to store the number of records.
• Three sampling interval options: 1 sec, 1 min, and 10 min. This can be selected during powering up.
• Start and Stop buttons for control operations.
• The recorded temperature values can be sent to PC through a serial port. A separate Send button is available to initiate data transfer.
• A LED to indicate various ongoing operations.
• Reset button to clear all previous records.  

Experiment No. 5: DC Motor Speed Control using Pulse Width Modulation (PWM)

Introduction

PIC12F683 has a built-in PWM module. The PWM output (CCP1 pin) is multiplexed with GPIO.2 (pin 5). So the TRISIO<2> bit must be cleared to make the CCP1 pin an output.
The objective of this experiment is to control the speed of a DC motor with an input from a potentiometer. This will be achieved in two steps:

• Read analog value (potentiometer output) through AN0 channel and generate a PWM wave at CCP1 pin (5) with duty cycle proportional to the analog value.
• Feed the PWM to motor driver transistor and observe the speed.

mikroC library routines for PWM

PWM1_Init

PWM1_Set_Duty

PWM1_Start

PWM1_Stop

Since PWM1_Set_Duty library function takes duty cycle input as an 8-bit integer, the digital value of analog signal, which is 10-bit, must be converted to 8-bit first. This will give 256 speed levels (0-255).

Experimental Setup
Connect POT2 output to pin 7 (AN0) of PIC12F683 and pin 5 (CCP1) to the input of motor driver transistor.

Experiment No. 4: External Interrupt

PIC12F683 has got one external interrupt pin (GP2, pin 5) which is edge-triggered:

• rising edge if INTEDG bit in OPTION register is SET,or 
• falling edge if INTEDG bit in OPTION register is CLEAR

In this experiment we are going to simulate an external interrupt event by a tact switch which when pressed gives a falling edge (5->0V) to external interrupt pin. When a valid edge appears on GP2/INT pin, the INTF bit (INTCON<1>) is set. This interrupt can be disabled by clearing INTE control bit (INTCON<4>). While exiting from the Interrupt Service Routine, INTF flag must be cleared to re-enable the interrupt again. ANSEL and CMCON0 must be initialized to configure GPIO as digital I/Os.

On the arrival of an interrupt, the new value of counter will increase by 1 and is displayed as no. of interrupts serviced. 

Experimental Setup:
External interrupt will be simulated by a tact switch on the board. So connect SW1 to GP2 with a jumper wire. For display purpose we will again use a hyperterminal window on a PC.

Experiment No. 3: Analog to Digital Converter with PIC12F683

As mentioned before, 4 out of 6 GPIOs in a PIC12F683 also provide analog-to-digital converter inputs with 10-bit resolution. They are GP0-GP2, and GP4. In this experiment we will feed an analog voltage to one of the ADC inputs (say AN0, which is GP0) and display the output digital value on a hyper-terminal window on PC. The analog voltage will be simulated with the potentiometer on our board.

Experimental Setup:
Connect the output of potentiometer (POT2) to AN0 (pin 7). GP5 (pin 2) will serve as TX pin for Software UART so connect it to input Tx of TTL to RS232 Level Shifter circuit. Also connect Rx (2) and Gnd (5) of a RS232 port to the board. This is similar to what we did in Experiment No. 2.

Experiment No. 1: 3-bit LED Up Counter

This is the first and the simplest project we are going to test on our PIC12F683 experiment board. We are going to make a 3-bit up counter that counts from 0 to 7. After 7, we are going to reset it to 0 and then start again, and so on. The 3-bit counter output will be displayed on 3-LEDs on the board. There will be a 1s delay between each up count.
Setup:
Connect GP0, GP1, and GP2 (pins 7, 6, and 5 of PIC12F683) to LEDs 3, 2, and 1 respectively.

 

Connect GPIO2, 1, 0 pins to LEDs 1, 2, 3 using jumper wires.