Serial Independent Read write

[ATE-EGNE]

I'm writing a vi for communicating to a device that occasionally sends an update command to the computer. I've created a similar vi for debugging purposes to share (for advice/input below).

The requirements are as such:

1) After being initialized, the computer must listen to the device unless it is writing. (So that it can hear "!UPDATE!\n" [part 3])

2) The user interface will send commands to the device and wait for the device to send back a set of data with "!PRINT!\n" at the end. After "!PRINT!\n" is received, the center loop processes the data, and either writes a new request to the device or sends the data to the front panel.

3) Occasionally, the device will print "!UPDATE!\n" to verify that there is still a connection. If the computer receives "!UPDATE!\n," it needs to print back "!UPDATE!\n."

[RTSLVU]

WOW you sure over complicated that. What are all the Semaphores doing? None of this makes sense.

Unless I am misunderstanding something I would:

1. Initialize the serial port
2. VISA Read in a loop until timeout or data received
3. Process the data received and Write a response back to the instrument if needed
4. Also break out of the Read loop to send a command.

This sounds like a State Machine to me not a Producer Consumer architecture.

[ATE-EGNE]

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@RTSLVU wrote:

WOW you sure over complicated that. What are all the Semaphores doing? None of this makes sense.

Unless I am misunderstanding something I would:

1. Initialize the serial port
2. VISA Read in a loop until timeout or data received
3. Process the data received and Write a response back to the instrument if needed
4. Also break out of the Read loop to send a command.

This sounds like a State Machine to me not a Producer Consumer architecture.

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Duah! Thank you, I am dumb