UART received value conversion to float

[kasun_duminda92]

Posted on December 30, 2012 at 21:28

I have been working on a program to directly transmit any character or set of characters that I transmit from the PC via UART, back to the PC immediately. This is just the first step in my project.

Code (this works):

    while(1) {

        int8_t buffer[20];         scanf(''%s'', buffer);         printf(''%s\n'', buffer);         STM_EVAL_LEDToggle(LED4);     } Next I want use the value I receive from the PC for some mathematical operations in 'float' data type. Can anyone please tell me how to covert the value received 'buffer' to a float value? 'Thank You' in advance. #tags-are-pointless #stm32f0-usart #lacks-specificity #connect-uart-to-pc

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on December 30, 2012 at 21:36

Presuming you have a decent tool chain with libraries that support floating point, and more specifically floating point support in scanf/printf

float flt; sscanf(buffer,''%f'',&flt); Or double dbl; dbl = atof(buffer); Or you could do some decimal math and parse it yourself.

[kasun_duminda92]

Posted on December 30, 2012 at 21:44

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on December 30, 2012 at 23:21

Both of these methods give errors. I am going to try parsing.

Perhaps some specificity to the error, and the tool chain, might help arrive at a solution. atof() is usually part of stdlib.h, at least on Keil. I'd probably be including math.h and stdlib.h, along with stdio.h A quick Google would probably bring up source code for something like atof(), or a lightweight equivalent thereof.

http://code.google.com/p/unladen-swallow/source/browse/branches/release-2009Q1-maint/Python/atof.c

[kasun_duminda92]

Posted on December 31, 2012 at 09:58