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Lei Sun
Lei Sun
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November 27, 2017
Question

In UART RS485 transmission the last byte always missing in HTERM (STM8S003F3)

  • November 27, 2017
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Posted on November 27, 2017 at 23:57

Hi all, I am using currently STM8S003F3 for my work and I want to send an array of bytes to the HTERM on my PC using UART RS485. But I always miss the last byte in the array (I can't see the last byte in HTERM). Here is a shot code snippet:

_UART_TX_ON; //switch to UART485 transmission mode

for ( bn=0; bn<17; bn++) {

   UART1->DR = bSPIRxBuf[bn]; //UART1_SendData8(bSPIRxBuf[bn]);

   while ( (UART1->SR & 0x80) == 0x00); //while (UART1_GetFlagStatus(UART1_FLAG_TXE) == RESET);

}

_UART_RX_ON; //switch to UART485 reception mode

The array bSPIRxBuf[0-16] has already some predefined content. But in Hterm I can only observe 16 bytes, which means the last byte is always not received by HTERM. I don't know why and could not explain. I think that I have waited enough time for each transmit byte before switching to reception mode using the while function. Anyone has some ideas? Many thanks!

Regards,

Bo

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    Tesla DeLorean
    Tesla DeLorean
    Guru
    November 27, 2017
    Posted on November 28, 2017 at 00:25

    Doesn't TXE flag when the first bit hits the wire? Do you have TC (Transmit Complete) ? That would be a better to test as to when the last bit has left.

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    Lei Sun
    Lei SunAuthor
    Associate II
    November 28, 2017
    Posted on November 28, 2017 at 08:43

    I used the TXE flag in the while loop for the check. But I didn't use the TC flag.

    Actually this code works fine with RS232, where

    _UART_TX_ON

     and

    _UART_RX_ON

     are not necessary due to full duplex of RS232.

    I've also tried to add a delay function after the for loop and before 

    _UART_RX_ON

    and this does not help.
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