Hi folks,
Question from a newbie!
I'd like to control volume through the DigiPot AD5291 from Analog Devices.
It's a SPI compatible device, in sum a 16-bit wide shift register, with 6 fixed start bits (from the MSB side),
The 'WRITE' command always starts with the sequence '000001' , the last LSB's are don't care.
The following the complete sequence:
15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 0
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0 0 0 0 0 1 D7 D6 D5 D4 D3 D2 D1 D0 X X
I was thinking of using a rotary encoder to control the volume.
On the Arduino playground 'rotaryEncoders' there are interesting sketches.
In sum, I will read the movement of the encoder, store in a volatile variable, something like:
volatile unsigned int encoder0Pos = 0;
Now my question:
How do I put the 8-bit value from the encoder0Pos variable into the AD5291 sequence?
I was thinking of first declaring another unsigned int variable, such as
unsigned int commVol = 0x400; // command sequence: '0b0000010000000000'
unsigned int Vol0 = 0; // whole 16-bit value to send to the AD5291
which stores the command line in the upper byte,
but how do I overwrite the encoder0Pos value (lower 8 bits, shifted 2 position left) onto this Vol0 variable
to send to the AD5291 shift register in the correct way?
I hope all's clear.
Any suggestion greatly appreciated.
TIA.