idea to meaure wide range of input frequency?

hg-chen · ‎2004-09-08

Posted on September 09, 2004 at 03:37

hg-chen · ‎2004-09-07

Posted on September 08, 2004 at 03:05

input frequency range widely from 0.01Hz to 5KHz,

timer overflow will happen, and input capture is used,

but both interrupt share the same vector ,

this may lead to critical condition that overflow counting is not correct,

how to avoid this problem?

or any better method to measure wide range of input frequency?

chander · ‎2004-09-07

Posted on September 08, 2004 at 03:36

In the interrupt routine, you can check the Input Capture status register to confirm that whether the interrupt occured due to Input Capture or Counter overflow.

hg-chen · ‎2004-09-08

Posted on September 08, 2004 at 09:35

1, input capture and timer overflow ,which gets the higer priority?

2,any sample code to measure events go beyond the timer range (FFFCH)

using TOF with interrupt?

chander · ‎2004-09-08

Posted on September 09, 2004 at 03:37

1> Both have the same priority,

2> I don't have the sample code , but the algorithm can be as follows:

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MAIN: enable the Input Capture interupt.

a=0;

INTERRPT ROUTINE:

If (interrupt is due to input capture)

First time: Start the counter

Second time: Stop the counter and read the value.

Else (//means the interrupt is due to counter overflow)

a++;

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In this way, you can measure the total time taken between two Rising edges of the signal at the input capture pin. And from this you can easily calculate the frequency.

[ This message was edited by: chander on 09-09-2004 07:08 ]