Problem with CLKFREQ when using uOLED-96-PROP and serial input
DiverBob
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I ran across an difficult problem a few days ago and haven't been able to figure out what is happening. I hoped someone else can see what I'm missing. The display being used is the uOLED 96PROP using a slightly modified version of the Brilldea driver.
The archive attachment has the test files I have been working with. Basically there is a serial interface to the display at 2400 baud from a seperate PIC processor. All the PIC does is continuously send 3 ADC values preceeded by a 1 (used to identify the start of the data stream). The ADC values are sent as ASCII text seperated by returns (#13). The OLED recieves the ADC data, converts the data to Floating Point values, performs some·simple math·and displays the results. There is a delay timer on the main display loop of 1 second that also blinks a yellow rectangle to show that the loop is repeating.
What happens is that so long as the ADC values coming from the PIC are <100 the display works correctly. But just as soon as any ADC value goes to 100 or greater the repeat loop freezes up solid (the blinking rectangle does not change) until I reduce the input ADC values to less than 100 again. When the ADC values are reduced to under 100,·the CLKFREQ which had been showing a value of 50331648 on the display goes to 0, the blinking rectangle starts blinking very fast and now I can increase the ADC value any value including to > 100 and the loop works correctly but at a much higher·frequency.
It looks like somehow the clock frequency is being reset somehow but I can't figure out how or why this happens or if this is the problem or just another symptom?·Maybe someone else can see what I'm missing...
Thanks for any help!
Bob Sweeney
The archive attachment has the test files I have been working with. Basically there is a serial interface to the display at 2400 baud from a seperate PIC processor. All the PIC does is continuously send 3 ADC values preceeded by a 1 (used to identify the start of the data stream). The ADC values are sent as ASCII text seperated by returns (#13). The OLED recieves the ADC data, converts the data to Floating Point values, performs some·simple math·and displays the results. There is a delay timer on the main display loop of 1 second that also blinks a yellow rectangle to show that the loop is repeating.
What happens is that so long as the ADC values coming from the PIC are <100 the display works correctly. But just as soon as any ADC value goes to 100 or greater the repeat loop freezes up solid (the blinking rectangle does not change) until I reduce the input ADC values to less than 100 again. When the ADC values are reduced to under 100,·the CLKFREQ which had been showing a value of 50331648 on the display goes to 0, the blinking rectangle starts blinking very fast and now I can increase the ADC value any value including to > 100 and the loop works correctly but at a much higher·frequency.
It looks like somehow the clock frequency is being reset somehow but I can't figure out how or why this happens or if this is the problem or just another symptom?·Maybe someone else can see what I'm missing...
Thanks for any help!
Bob Sweeney
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Is there a better method of using the FullDuplexSerial object for my purposes? I use GetDec read and convert the ADC values now, I need to read 3 integer values ranging from 0 to 1023 from the ADC.
Thanks,
Bob Sweeney