I am playing with a SN74LV8154 counter with an Arduino Mega2560 board. After some wrangling I seem to have it happily counting. The counter chip is a 32 bit counter that outputs the 32 bits in 4 x 8 bit parts. To get the full 32 bit binary number you have to switch the 8 outputs bits between the 4 blocks of 8 bits. I believe I have this working.
To convert the 8 bit binary to decimal I have written a function that reads the output bits, calculates the decimal value and returns it to the calling routine. Within the function this is being calculated correctly.
All works well until i get to 00000001 (128)
The value that gets returned suddenly changes sign and is returned as a negative number. this is despite it being calculated correctly within the function
11111110 (127) is returned correctly as +ve.
Any value that is greater than 127 is returned as a negative value.
00000001 (128) is returned as -128
I have attached the output of the results as shown by a bunch of print statements.
The value calculated within the function is correct and +ve but the number that is returned to the calling routine interprets it as -ve if it's greater than 127.
The output is in the following order.
The next three lines are printed within the function
binary number
value of 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 digits
sum of digits calculated within the function
This is printed in the calling routine after being returned.
sum of digits returned in function
11111110
1.00
2.00
4.00
8.00
16.00
32.00
64.00
0.00
127.00
127
00000001
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
128.00
128.00
-128.00
10000001
1.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
128.00
129.00 # This is calculated within the function as the sum of all the digits It is correct
-127.00 # This return value is a value that results from the sum of 1 and -128 from10000001 ??????
Is there something that I don't understand here.
