Arduino Producer-Consumer Library

Links two arduinos together using a buffer on the producer side. One 32bit word
one byte of metadata, and one byte of checksum is transmitted in each message.

The library can be found at gitHub http://github.com/suttonr/Arduino-Producer-Consumer-Library

Producer:

Setup:

• Wire.begin(addr) should be done in calling program's setup() func
  Producer will be setup as a I2C slave with the address specified in
  Producer::Producer(int address);
• Wire.onRequest(void(*)()) must be setup in calling program's setup() to
  call a local function which references Producer::i2cRequest()
  ***TODO: FIX THIS***

Run:

• When the buffer is written one byte of metadata is attached to the data.
  Producer::writeBuffer(word data,byte meta);

Consumer:

Setup:

• Wire.begin() should be done in calling program's setup() func
• Consumer will be setup as a I2C master and read from the slave with address
  specified in Consumer::Consumer(int address);

Run:

• Consumer::readBuffer() returns the meta for the received data Special metas:

  • 0xFF - Buffer full
  • 0xFE - Checksum failed ( data lost )

• Consumer::getValue(meta) returns the most recent data for that meta

• Consumer::getUpdate() reads all avaiable data in buffer, only data for most
  recent meta is avaiable

Requirements:

• Arduino 0019 or greater

Limitations:

• Only I2C implemented
• No data handshake, if checksum failes data is lost.
• Does not tell the producer when buffer is full (dumps the buffer and 'resets' the buffer)

Install:

• To install copy the ProducerConsumer/ directory into your arduino 'libraries'
  directory ie:

cp -a ProducerConsumer [/path/to/arduino]/libraries