serial receive on attiny84

Using Arduino Microcontrollers
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Hi All,
I've been using (and loving) the arduino-tiny core: Google Code Archive - Long-term storage for Google Code Project Hosting.
with an ATtiny84 and Arduino IDE v.22 (my project uses too many third-party libraries at the moment to make the switch to 1.0 right now).
I was struggling to get serial communication to work with it. There's a debug_serial library but I need bidirectional communication.
I came across this thread that said NewSoftSerial does the trick, http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1285218245/all
so I downloaded NewSoftSerial10c from NewSoftSerial | Arduiniana
Sure enough transmitting works fine, but reception not at all.
Digging into NewSoftSerial.cpp you can see that the necessary pin change interrupts are only defined for ATmega168 and 328.
I added references for ATtiny84, and it seems to be working fine so far. I've only tested it on pin D10 as receive, so it might not work on every pin. Of course, use at your own risk...
Nick

// Abstractions for maximum portability between processors
// These are macros to associate pins to pin change interrupts
#if !defined(digitalPinToPCICR) // Courtesy Paul Stoffregen
#if defined(__AVR_ATmega168__) || defined(__AVR_ATmega328P__)
#define digitalPinToPCICR(p)    (((p) >= 0 && (p) <= 21) ? (&PCICR) : ((uint8_t *)NULL))
#define digitalPinToPCICRbit(p) (((p) <= 7) ? 2 : (((p) <= 13) ? 0 : 1))
#define digitalPinToPCMSK(p)    (((p) <= 7) ? (&PCMSK2) : (((p) <= 13) ? (&PCMSK0) : (((p) <= 21) ? (&PCMSK1) : ((uint8_t *)NULL))))
#define digitalPinToPCMSKbit(p) (((p) <= 7) ? (p) : (((p) <= 13) ? ((p) - 8) : ((p) - 14)))
#elif defined(__AVR_ATtiny84__)
#define digitalPinToPCICR(p)    (((p) >= 0 && (p) <= 10) ? (&GIMSK) : ((uint8_t *)NULL))
#define digitalPinToPCICRbit(p) (((p) <= 2) ? 5 : 4)
#define digitalPinToPCMSK(p)    (((p) <= 2) ? (&PCMSK1) : (((p) <= 10) ? (&PCMSK0) : ((uint8_t *)NULL)))
#define digitalPinToPCMSKbit(p) (((p) <= 2) ? (p) : (((p) - 10) * -1))
#else
#define digitalPinToPCICR(p)    ((uint8_t *)NULL)
#define digitalPinToPCICRbit(p) 0
#define digitalPinToPCMSK(p)    ((uint8_t *)NULL)
#define digitalPinToPCMSKbit(p) 0
#endif
#endif
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Thank you for the follow-up and code.

3

Very interesting. I think I will use it on a ATtiny85...

4

Thank your for your solution. That was a problem that I discovered a couple of months ago too.

5

Cool indeed. Thanks!

Mikal

6

For those is interested in, here is the code for Attinyx5 too:

#elif defined(__AVR_ATtiny25__) || defined(__AVR_ATtiny45__) || (__AVR_ATtiny85__)
#define digitalPinToPCICR(p)    (((p) >= 0 && (p) <= 5) ? (&GIMSK) : ((uint8_t *)NULL))
#define digitalPinToPCICRbit(p) 5
#define digitalPinToPCMSK(p)    (((p) >= 0 && (p) <= 5) ? (&PCMSK) : ((uint8_t *)NULL))
#define digitalPinToPCMSKbit(p) (p)

Not completely tested but should work

7

NewSoftwareSerial replace SoftwareSerial for AtTiny85
Great!! it worket at 4800 and 9600 for attiny85!!

just download NewSoftSerial10c from NewSoftSerial | Arduiniana
add as before:

#elif defined(AVR_ATtiny84) //mymodif here
#define digitalPinToPCICR(p) (((p) >= 0 && (p) <= 10) ? (&GIMSK) : ((uint8_t *)NULL))
#define digitalPinToPCICRbit(p) (((p) <= 2) ? 5 : 4)
#define digitalPinToPCMSK(p) (((p) <= 2) ? (&PCMSK1) : (((p) <= 10) ? (&PCMSK0) : ((uint8_t *)NULL)))
#define digitalPinToPCMSKbit(p) (((p) <= 2) ? (p) : (((p) - 10) * -1))

#elif defined(AVR_ATtiny25) || defined(AVR_ATtiny45) || (AVR_ATtiny85) //mymodif here
#define digitalPinToPCICR(p) (((p) >= 0 && (p) <= 5) ? (&GIMSK) : ((uint8_t *)NULL))
#define digitalPinToPCICRbit(p) 5
#define digitalPinToPCMSK(p) (((p) >= 0 && (p) <= 5) ? (&PCMSK) : ((uint8_t *)NULL))
#define digitalPinToPCMSKbit(p) (p)

and add

void NewSoftSerial::enable_timer0(bool enable)
{
if (enable)
#if defined(AVR_ATmega8) || (AVR_ATtiny85) //mymodif here
sbi(TIMSK, TOIE0);
#else
sbi(TIMSK0, TOIE0);
#endif
else
#if defined(AVR_ATmega8) || (AVR_ATtiny85) //mymodif here
cbi(TIMSK, TOIE0);
#else
cbi(TIMSK0, TOIE0);
#endif
}

best regards, pescadito!