May 14th : Yar!
Time to try and communicate with this ADS1131REF board so I can integrate it into my little group. I was looking forward to this because I could finally give my new bus pirate a go.
The designers kindly left some test points available on the reference board for the UART interface, I have highlighted these in the image below.
ADS1131REF UART SETTINGS
115200 baud
8 data bits
no parity
1 stop bit
no flow control
Once I hooked up my bus pirate it was fairly easy to get data off the board using the UART using the settings as above. The ADS1131REF accepts several simple commands to get data and.. well that is about it, it is a very basic command set..
So getting the data was not a problem, now I have to do something with it. At the moment the hexadecimal values that I am getting don't seem to make a whole lot of sense, I am sure I will figure it out soon enough.