help with program structure
Hi,
I'm pretty new to C# and I have a problem finding a good way to
structure my program.
I'm reading bytes from the COM port, and each bit in the bytes can
represent some parameter that I want to print to a string.
So far I have managed to extract the meaning of the different bits for a
single byte but there are up to 100 bytes with different parameters, so
I want to structure my program correctly from the beginning.
This is my code so far, its only purpose is to look at bits 5 & 6
and print which meaning they represent.
class PMBus
{
const byte CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED_100kHz = 0X00; //none of
bits 5 & 6 are set
const byte CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED_400kHz = 0X20; //bit 5 is
set
const byte CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED_RESERVED0 = 0X40; //bits 6
is set
const byte CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED_RESERVED1 = 0X60; //bits
5-6 are both set
const byte CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED = 0X60; //bit 5 and bit 6
define bus speed
const byte CAPABILITY_SMBALERT = 0X10;
const byte CAPABILITY_RESERVED = 0X08;
public void GetCapabilityBusSpeed(byte _byte)
{
byte result = (byte)(_byte & CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED);
switch(result)
{
case CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED_100kHz:
{
Console.WriteLine("Max bus speed=100kHz");
break;
}
case CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED_400kHz:
{
Console.WriteLine("Max bus speed=400kHz");
break;
}
case CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED_RESERVED0:
{
Console.WriteLine("Reserved 0");
break;
}
case CAPABILITY_MAX_BUS_SPEED_RESERVED1:
{
Console.WriteLine("Reserved 1");
break;
}
}
}
}
With many bytes and different bit meanings I would like some ideas or
proposals of how to structure the program in a better way.
Could I make a struct for each byte that could hold the bit addresses
and output strings?
Thanks in advance :)
Jacob