Accessing Maxim DS18B20 temperature sensors

I have several of the Maxim 1-wire DS18B20 temperature sensors on a wire and want to know what library to use to write a program to read and display the temperatures.

Any sample code would be greatly appreciated. I am fairly familiar with Delphi 7 coding and am now using the RAD Delphi 11 setup.

Many thanks, Brian

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You have the wrong Delphi; this is Chief Delphi, a forum mostly for the FIRST Robotics Competition, a high school sport; this is not a forum about Delphi, the programming language.

However, we do have a lot of folks here familiar with interfacing with sensors (outside of the Delphi platform). The DS18B20 looks like it uses a custom protocol; the datasheet references Application Note 126 for a software implementation, but note this implementation is in C for a microcontroller that can maintain tight timing.

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Thanks Peter for your reply. I will look at the application note and see if it will help men. Brian