Difference between device.write and lib.i2c_write

Hi ,

From base/microblaze/microblaze_python_libraries.ipynb, we can see that:

device.write(0x50, buf, 1)
device.read(0x50, buf, 2)

‘device’ is defined by device = lib.i2c_open(lib.PMOD_G4_B, lib.PMOD_G4_A).
If dir(device), we can see the available functions:
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However, these are slightly different from the definition as the screenshot below, as well as in PYNQ/i2c.c at master · Xilinx/PYNQ · GitHub.
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They start with i2c. For example the code above “device.write(0x50, buf, 1)” should be “lib.i2c_write(0x50, buf, 1)”.

The same is true for gpio and spi.

So questions are:

  1. are they equivalent, e.g. device.write vs lib.i2c_write ? the testing result is. Just want to confirm.
  2. any more specific documentation about it? would be good to read some references.
    any input will be much appreciated.

Colin

device.write is a wrapper around lib.i2c_write with the first argument passed implicitly. This is a common pattern across across all of the Microblaze drivers and is done automatically by the C->Python communication layer. The rule is that a any function of the form T {type}_func({type}, ...) becomes a method on {type} with the signature T instance.func(...).

This is documented in general terms in the Microblaze programming notebook under the “Class-like objects” section.

Peter

Thank you Peter. Appreciate it.