initializing output pin values at start of routine?

[albireo13]

A newbie question.
I am writing a basic routine to control a stepper driver chip using my Teensy 2.0.
I have several outputs which I want to initialize to a specific value (High or Low)
just once at the beginning of my routine. I don't want to write the values each time I go through the main loop.
It's not clear to me how best to do this.
Is there a way to do this in the setup section?

Below is my sketch so far.
For example, I want to set MS1, MS2 outputs to be Low, Low for starters.
Can I insert digitalWrite() commands in the setup() section to do this? I am not sure if this is allowed.

Thx.

//  RA stepper drive for Vixen GP mount
//  Uses MP6500 stepper driver chip to drive the Vixen MT-1 motors
//  in bipolar mode.
//  Desired step period is 103.8822 ms (103882 usec) for full step
//
//  Inputs needed:
//         
//  Outputs needed:
//    MS1,MS2     Micro-stepping control (full, half, quarter, eighth)
//    STEP        Pulse to step the driver, 1usec min time
//    DIR         Direction of rotation
//***********************************************************************
//  Pin assignments for Teensy 2.0:
//
int STEPpin = 13;     // pin 13 for STEP pulse to stepper driver
int LEDpin = 11;  //  pin 11 used for LED drive
int DIR = 16;   // pin 16 for DIR output
int MS2 = 14;   // pin 14 for MS2 output
int MS1 = 15;   // pin 15 for MS1 output
int PADdly = 782;  //  Pad delay in usec to loop to make Sidereal rate. This may be tweaked later.
//
void setup()
{
  pinMode(LEDpin, OUTPUT);  //  LED drive.  Not sure I will use LED.
  pinMode(STEPpin, OUTPUT);      //  STEP output signal
  pinMode(MS2, OUTPUT);   
  pinMode(MS1, OUTPUT);   
  pinMode(DIR, OUTPUT);   
}

void loop()
{
  digitalWrite(STEPpin, HIGH);  // 100 usec STEP pulse
  delayMicroseconds(100);     
  digitalWrite(STEPpin, LOW);
  delay(103);   //  103 ms delay
  delayMicroseconds(PADdly);    //  delay pad to make 103882 usec loop period
}

 

[PaulS]

Is there a way to do this in the setup section?

Sure, like so:

void setup()
{
  pinMode(LEDpin, OUTPUT);  //  LED drive.  Not sure I will use LED.
  pinMode(STEPpin, OUTPUT);      //  STEP output signal
  pinMode(MS2, OUTPUT);   
  pinMode(MS1, OUTPUT);   
  pinMode(DIR, OUTPUT);  

  digitalWrite(STEPpin, LOW);
}

Paul

 

[albireo13]

Awesome. Thanks. I wasn't sure if that was ok.