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Propeller 2 (P2 or P2X8C4M64P)
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Propeller 2 Live Forums
Early Adopter Series - Presentations and discussion around programming tools, languages, hardware, applications, code examples, and projects of all kinds. Learn, lurk, and ask questions.
- Next on schedule:
- Awaiting new presenters. Want to present? Simply go to this Google document page and sign up to be a presenter. Read more on the forum.
- Watch recorded sessions (listed in recent to distant order):
| FlexBASIC | MicroPython and Graphical Debug |
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| Eric R. Smith | Team Oz and Chip Gracey |
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P2 Community Newsletter
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Previous newsletters:
- Oct 27, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Python, Graphic Debug, and a Special Offer!
- Oct 7, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Propeller 2 Live Forum: TeamOz Talks Hardware + MicroPython + Discussion
- Sep 29, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum Registration - Click Objects, Graphical Debug, P2 Edge + Breakout
- Sep 16, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Open Discussion, QnA
- Sep 07, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Audio Effects Processing on the Propeller 2 with Chip Gracey
- Aug 31, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Propeller Tool for Windows + Wireless Programming
- Aug 18, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Chip Talks about Smart Pins on the P2!
- Aug 10, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Four New Presentations Scheduled!
- Aug 3, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Three New Presentations Scheduled!
- July 28, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum: Peter Jakacki Presents P2D2!
- July 21, 2020: Team Oz Presents “MicroPython with the P2”
- July 12, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum - Chip Gracey presents “Spin 2 Debug with Runtime Expression Reporting”
- July 7, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forum - Early Adopters Meeting on Wednesday + Evaluation Board Update
- June 30, 2020: Invitation to Propeller 2 Live Forum - Eric Smith’s FlexGUI, P2ES Rev C pre-order, Propeller Tool, and new Spin2 objects
- June 23, 2020: Display, GUI and Multimedia Options with the Propeller 2
- June 14, 2020: Propeller 2 Live Forums - Early Adopter Series First Zoom, Propeller Tool 2nd Alpha, and TeamOz’s MicroPython
- June 8, 2020: Propeller Tool Alpha Release for Windows Supports P2X8C4M64P (P2)
- June 3, 2020: 7,000 P2X8C4M64P-ES Revision C Chips Arrived at Parallax
- March 23, 2020: Propeller 2 Revision C (P2X8C4M64P-ES) Schedule and COVID-19
- December 30, 2019: “Chat with Chip” Webinar follow-up, survey of P2 language interests, white paper by Richard Morrison, update on P2 Evaluation Boards
- December 14, 2019: How to order trays of P2 chips, preliminary pricing, “Chat with Chip” webinar registration
- January 25, 2019: P2 evaluation board add-ons available.
Videos & Articles
- View the “Chat with Chip About P2” Webinar - 12/18/2019 - in this informal-style webinar, Chip demonstrates some P2 capabilities and answers many attendee questions along the way
- Read “Evaluating the Parallax Propeller P2 Chip” by Richard J. S. Morrison - 12/16/2019 - an exploration of the P2’s unique capabilities and extensive, powerful instruction set
- Terry’s Workbench
- Unboxing P2 Engineering Sample Rev B - Nov 2019
- P2 OLED Videos
- Unboxing P2 Engineering Sample Part 1 - Apr 2019
- Unboxing P2 Engineering Sample Part 2 - Apr 2019
- Unboxing P2 Engineering Sample Rev B - Nov 2019
P2 Forum
- View or join the discussions in the Propeller 2 Forum
P2 Object Exchange
The object exchange is a collection of community and Parallax developed source code objects for the Propeller, also known as libraries. They are free to use under the MIT license.
Want to share your objects? Here’s how to contribute. Want to create objects we’re asking the community for? See our P2 Object thread for details.
Documentation
- Rev B/C Silicon (v33 - 08/2019-LPD1941 & 06/2020-LHU2019)
- Propeller 2 Rev B/C Silicon Documentation is contained in a Google Doc with community commenting enabled
- Propeller 2 Rev B/C PASM Instructions are contained in a Google Spreadsheet
- Propeller 2 Rev B/C Spin 2 Language Documentation is contained in a Google Doc with community commenting enabled
- Propeller 2 Rev B/C Smart Pin Supplementary Documentation by Jon Titus is a Google Doc with community commenting enabled. It contains examples and further explanation (beyond the Silicon Documentation).
- Spin2 SEND command short tutorial by Jon Titus
- Rev A Silicon (v32 - 09/2018 - LWB1843)
- Propeller 2 Rev A Documentation and Rev A PASM Instructions
- TAQOZ ROM-resident Interactive Prompt documentation, by Peter Jakacki
Hardware
Propeller 2 early adopters may experiment with two options: 1) limited-edition boards and silicon engineering samples (below) or, 2) design emulation on supported FPGAs (following).
Parallax Boards and Silicon
On the following product pages, expand the Downloads and Additional Resources tabs for documentation, schematics, and more.
- Propeller 2 Products - All P2-related products
- P2-ES Eval Board - For experimentation with the P2 engineering samples (2nd release, Rev B silicon)
- HyperRAM - Limited edition, 16 MB HyperRAM + 32 MB HyperFlash add-on board for P2-ES
- Protoboard - Prototyping board for P2-ES to create custom circuitry with the Propeller 2 microcontroller
- P2-ES Accessory Set - Eight accessory boards in one kit - for the P2-ES board
- (a) Control - four pushbuttons and four LEDs
- (b) Serial Host - twin USB type A sockets
- (c) LED Matrix - a 8x7 grid of green LEDs for Charlieplexing
- (d) Digital Video Out - HDMI-type connector
- (e) Mini Prototyping - 8x12 grid of plated thru-holes with labled power and I/O
- (f) Serial Device - two microUSB type sockets with individual activity LEDs
- (g) Goertzel - a set of non-contact position sensing pads
- (h) A/V Breakout - 3.5mm Audio in/out, four RCA audio/video, VGA
FPGA emulation
- Propeller 2 Version 33k Verilog File - For P2 Rev B emulation on an FPGA board
- Propeller 2 Version 32i Verilog File - For P2 Rev A emulation on an FPGA board
- Detailed information is on the forum
- P2 FPGA Emulation discussion
Software
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IDEs
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Spin2 & PASM2
- Propeller Tool - Parallax P1 & P2 IDE (built for Windows)
- PNut - Parallax P2 IDE (built for Windows- can be used with wine on Linux and MacOS)
- PNut v34zb - (signed) for P2 Rev B/C (2nd/3rd ES silicon) [3rd is slated as production version] as used on the Rev C P2 Eval boards. DEBUG displays added and enhanced, lot of DEBUG examples. Now supports all three text-file formats: PC (CR+LF), Linux (LF-only), and Mac (CR-only). Format preserved on save. See P2 Spin2 Launguage documentation’s DEBUG details
- PNut v32i - for P2 Rev A (1st -ES silicon, as used on the Rev A P2 Eval boards)
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Spin, PASM, BASIC, and C
- FlexProp (formerly FlexGUI and Spin2gui) - IDE for P1 and P2 Spin,
BASIC and
C by Eric R. Smith
- See FlexProp source readme for documentation
- SpinEdit - IDE for P1 and P2 Spin, Spin2, and FastBasic by Rayman
- See SpinEdit forum post for more information
- FlexProp (formerly FlexGUI and Spin2gui) - IDE for P1 and P2 Spin,
BASIC and
C by Eric R. Smith
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Language Tools (Compiler & Interpreter)
- fastspin - P1 and P2 Spin, PASM, BASIC, and C compiler by Eric R. Smith
- P2gcc, p2asm & loadp2 - P2 C compiler/assembler/linker/loader by Dave Hein
- Catalina - P1 and P2 C Compiler/linker by Ross Higson
- riscvp2 - Use RISC-V tools to build Parallax Propeller P2 binaries by Eric R. Smith. Forum thread.
- P2 LLVM - LLVM-based compiler for P2 by Nikita (n_ermosh). Forum thread
- P1 Spin interpreter for P2 - by cluso99
- P1 Spin interpreter for P2 - by Dave Hein
- MicroPython - P2 microPython implementation by Eric R. Smith
- pyLoader - P2 binary loader written in python by ozpropdev
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More Software and Examples
Firmware
- boot rom P2 v33k - Boot ROM for P2 Rev B as available on P2-ES Rev B
- boot rom P2 v32i - Boot ROM for P2 Rev A as available on P2-ES Rev A board
- TAQOZ discussion - treasure trove of information on TAQOZ by Peter Jakacki
Other
- P2 example source code and articles
Recent Activity
Full details here.
- Added Greg LaPolla’s P2 MAX7219 Dot Matrix Master object
- Updated Greg LaPolla’s P2 ILI9341 object
- Added Bill Tuss’s Stepper Motor Driver
- Updated Greg LaPolla’s P2 ILI9341 object
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s DHTxx Temperature/Humidity object
- Added object from Greg LaPolla’s
- P1 ADS1118 C
- P1 ADS1118 Spin
- P2 ADS1118
- P2 ILI9341
- Added Dennis Gately’s (and BR’s) DS1302 Full object.
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s Quiic Twist object
- Added Objects from Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen
- Added Stephen Moraco’s ISP Hub75 Matrix object
- Added Objects
- Accessory Buttons - Bryan Thomas
- FT813 EVE2 Driver - Chris Gadd
- LPD8806 “Smart” Pixel Driver - Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen
- Soft Timer - Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s objects
- Added latest P2 Live Forum
- Added latest newsletter and P2 Live Forum
- Added latest newsletter
- Added P2 Live Forum ad
- Added latest P2 Live Forum
- Added latest newsletter
- Added latest two P2 Live Forums
- Added latest newsletters
- Updated LED Matrix test code for PNut and Propeller Tool
- Added Riley August’s object ESP32
- Updated Audio Effects P2 Live Forum link to better the viewing experience
- Added latest P2 Live Forum
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s objects
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s object EZ SPI
- Added latest newsletter about upcoming P2 Live Forums.
- Renamed resources/P2-ES folder to resources/P2 Eval Examples and included all current source files from PNut v34xb.
- Updated PNut to v34xb
- Added latest P2 Live Forum - Tao of Spin2 Programming.
- Added Aug 19th’s P2 Live Forum.
- Updated PNut to v34wb
- Added Jon Titus’ Smart Pin documentation
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s object Full Duplex Serial
- Added latest newsletter about upcoming P2 Live Forums.
- Added Eric R Smith’s objects
- Added Aug 12th’s P2 Live Forum.
- Updated PNut to v34vb
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s object APA102C Smart Pixel Driver
- Added latest newsletter about upcoming P2 Live Forums and Chat Log for recent forum.
- Added Larry McGrew’s 433 MHz Tx object
- Added RISC V P2 and P2LLVM compilers
- Updated PNut to v34ue
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s object rgbx pixel driver
- Updated PNut to v34uc
- Updated PNut to v34ub
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s object sircs tx (Sony SIRCS protocol transmitter)
- Included July 21st’s newsletter
- Added PNut v34ua.
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s objects
- Added PNut v34ta.
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s object pwm (pulse-width modulation generator)
- Included July 7th’s newsletter
- Added Nicolas Benezan’s Simple SPI Flash object (Simple SPI Flash)
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s objects
- Included P2 Object request thread in the Object Exchange section.
- Added P2 Forum #3 recorded session and slides: Multi-language Development with fastspin/flexgui
- Added Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s object
- max7219_ez (8-digit, 7-segment LED controller)
- lcd_pcf8574 (LCD control via I2C)
- i2c (I2C protocol)
- servo (Servo control)
- ez_analog (Analog Input)
- ez_sound (Create tones and musical notes)
- quadrature (Quadrature Encoder)
- ez_button (I/O configuring for a button or switch)
- Added P2ES Rev C documentation.
- Added Terry’s Workbench videos
- Replaced/Updated Jon “JonnyMac” McPhalen’s objects
- prng (Pseudo-Random and Random Number Generator)
- serial (True-most, unbuffered serial coms using smart pins
- p2es_matrix (P2ES Matrix accessory persistent display)
- p2es_control (P2ES Control accessory)
- Added Rayman’s SpinEdit IDE
- Added Johannes Ahle’s reSound audio driver
- Updated references to Park Transformation object