Python or C driver for SC16IS762 dual SPI UART?



  • Hi all,

    I have designed a data logger incorporating a G01 and a SC16IS762 to provide 2 external UART interfaces via SPI. I have a couple of questions regarding the approach I should take for writing the driver:

    1. Would there be any significant performance gain if the driver for the SC16IS762 was written in C as a python-loadable module, instead of pure python? The baud rates are low - 9600 and 1200, and data volume is not expected to be high (so interrupt workload is not expected to be huge).

    2. Assuming that it is worth writing a C driver: I've done some preliminary playing around writing simple loadable modules using the documentation on this forum and the Micropython docs, and it's reasonably straightforward. The tricky part is that I would like to make use of the interrupt pin on the SC16IS762 via a GPIO to call some C code in my driver module. Looking at firmware source, it seems that all the GPIO interrupts are handled by machpin_intr_process(). machpin_intr_process() in turn calls call_interrupt_handler() for each pin. call_interrupt_handler() expects a micropython pin object, so what would be the correct approach for supplying my own handler routine?

    Thanks in advance,

    Andrew



  • @Elizar I suspected as much. Thanks



  • @Andrew-Starr From the view of a G01 your low baud rate device is a very slow device. There is no much point in using a faster programming language with this.
    Just enjoy the convenient python environment:

    def PinIRQ(src):
        print("IRQ from pin #"+str(src))
    
    ...
    # IRQ initialization:
    pin.callback(Pin.IRQ_FALLING, handler=PinIRQ, arg=999)
    

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