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Capture Error
Posted: Thu Feb 13, 2014 9:35 pm
by danlee58
I am trying to measure the Period of a pulse train with a SuperPro using Timer1 to count PCLK between Interrupts on Pin18. If I have 200 pps on pin 18, I expect to read 125000 with PCLK = 25Mhz. I seem to get 1/100 of that or 1250 PCLK Transitions in the 5msec time between transitions. I have the PR set to 0.
Re: Capture Error
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:04 am
by danlee58
I think that the problem might be due to this code.
printf("%d\n"), Timer Count;
The Timer Count is a 32 bit value, and might overflow a 16 bit function(65535).
Re: Capture Error
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2014 8:22 am
by basicchip
I think you are talking about C, and that should have produced a compile error, in which case new code was never loaded.
If it's BASIC, you should also get an error.
printf("%d\n",TIMER); //TIMER is a #define in C, not sure what your reference to Counter is and would error on the space between them
In C the a variable defined as short is limited to 65K, but type int is 32 bits
Re: Capture Error
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 7:16 pm
by danlee58
Yes, it is C.
The actual code is:
printf("%d\n"), Timer_Count;
Timer_Count is a long unsigned int.
I get no Compiler Errors or Warnings.
Re: Capture Error
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:16 am
by basicchip
This is cut nd paste from some code I used to measure a 1KHz incoming clock based on the IRC and capture0 of the timer. This was done on an 1800 series part, so the pin setup won't exactly be the same
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void setupTIMER0 (void) {
LPC_CGU->BASE_M3_CLK = (1<<11) + (1<<24); // IRC
LPC_CCU1->CLK_M3_TIMER0_CFG = 1;
LPC_CCU1->CLK_M3_BUS_CFG = 1;
LPC_CCU1->CLK_M3_SCU_CFG =1;
LPC_SCU->SFSP0_8 = (1<<6) + 2; // TIMER0 CAP0 input
LPC_GIMA->CAP0_0_IN = (2<<4);
LPC_TIMER0->TCR = 1; // enable TIMER0
LPC_TIMER0->PR = 0; // no prescale, count on every PCLK
LPC_TIMER0->PC = 0; // no prescale, count on every PCLK
LPC_TIMER0->CCR = 5; // on CAP0 rise capture TC and set interrupt
LPC_TIMER0->CTCR = 0; // timer mode
LPC_TIMER0->IR = 0xff; // clear all interrupts
}
void main(void) {
setupTIMER0();
while(1)
if (LPC_TIMER0->IR & (1<<4)) { // capture event
KHZsamples[KHZindex++] = LPC_TIMER0->CR[0];
LPC_TIMER0->IR = 0xff; // clear all interrupts
KHZindex &= MAXsample; // wrap on MAXsample samples
}
}
}
Re: Capture Error
Posted: Mon Feb 17, 2014 10:22 am
by basicchip
some code comments--
For 32 bit unsigned register values, I use unsigned int, I'd have to lookup what you get when you make it long, and I try to keep my code simple
printf("%d\n",x); // is what you want to use
while
printf("%d\n"),X; //may be almost legal, it won't do what you want
because, you want to pass the value of x to printf, which is done within the ()
expression,expression; //is legal in C, with both printf and x being expression, but it is unlikely what you want to do. I don't think I've ever used , between expression except in function calls. Remember I KISSS, 3rd S for software
The only expression; I normally use is
i++:
Re: Capture Error
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 9:21 pm
by danlee58
I did a data log of the output from the printf("%d\n",x); statement. The printf function is working correctly. However the data shows ~1000 counts per interrupt. It should be 125000 to 150000 counts between interrupts. The interesting part of the data is that once-in-a-while, I get a sample that is in the right ballpark. I thought that this data was an error, since most data shows lower counts, but it is in fact the lower count data that's wrong.
I need to go over my input circuit to find out where the extra pulses are being generated.