Detailed notes of research

Notes on uC

Microcontrolers and chips

Microcontrolers

ID Name Chip Comments ADC Price COmments
1 WiFiMCU EMW3165 - STM32F411CE Cortex-M4 core at 100MHz 1_12-bit, 2.4 MSPS A/D converter: up to 16 channels 8$ Has wifi
2 Espruino Pico STM32F401CDU6 ARM Cortex M4, 384kb flash, 96kb RAM 1_12-bit, 2.4 MSPS A/D converter 24$ (Adafruit) No wifi, smart USB plug, DSP instructions
3 Feather Wiced STM32F205RG 120MHz ARM Cortex M3 MCU + BCM43362 (avec un M3) 3 x 12-bit, 0.5us ADCs with up to 24 channels and up to 6 MSPS in triple interleaved mode 34$ Has wifi, support for battery
4 STM32L471QE STM32L471QE NoP 3_ 12-bit ADC 5 Msps, up to 16-bit with hardware oversampling ?? ??
5 STM32L476 STM32L476VGT6 NOP 3_ 12-bit ADC 5 Msps, up to 16-bit with hardware oversampling 19$ dev-kit Cheap, powerfull, nowifi
6 ESP32 ?? NoP ?? ?? ??
7 ESP8277 Tensilica Xtensa LX106 NoP 80 MHz // 64 KiB of instruction RAM, 96 KiB of data RAM 3$ Has WiFi
8 Arduino Otto STM32F469BIT6 NoP 3×12-bit, 2.4 MSPS ADC: up to 24 channels and 7.2 MSPS in triple interleaved mode ?? FAAAAT. Has Wifi through a ESP8266
9 NanoPi m3 Cortex-A53 S5P6818 SoC ts dynamic frequency scales from 400M up to 1.4GHz. ?? ?? Has WiFi
10 BBC Microbit ?? NoP Not really a uC for us... ?? ??
11 Nucleo F401RE STM32F401RE ?? Joris working with this one ?? ??
12 stm32f3 ?? NoP 12-bit ADC 5 MSPS 5-10$ Analog and DSP with FPU ARM Cortex-M4 MCU with 64 Kbytes Flash, 72 MHz CPU, CCM, 12-bit ADC 5 MSPS
13 PIC32MZ PIC32MZ NoP 12-bit, 28MSPS, 48-channel ADC module 5$ 200MHz/330 DMIPS, M-Class Core, DSP-enhanced core, 12-bit, 28MSPS, 48-channel ADC module

Studying chips

ID Name Details Comments
1 STM32F411CE
2 STM32F401CDU6
3 stm32f407 Recommended for data processing by Dmitry (GeekTimesRu)

Other stuff

ID Name Chip Comments ADC Price COmments
X BBC MicroBit A voir NoP ?? ?? ??

Notes on feather_WICED

Feather WICED

Facts

General
Specs:
  • STM32F205

Setup ?

Getting more on the ADC.

For getting more on the ADCs:

Notes on RPi0

RPi0 Oscilloscope

Ressources

Working ... with an external ADC. We need to test beforehands.

General
hacking camera CSI bus
Hat for SoC
SPI
Resources pages
DIP ADC

Notes on ESP32

ESP32

Details ?

ESP-WROOM-32 is a powerful, generic WiFi-BT-BLE MCU module that targets a wide variety of applications ranging from low power sensor networks to the most demanding tasks such as voice encoding, music streaming and MP3 decoding.

At the core of this module is the ESP32 chip, which is designed to be scalable and adaptive. There are 2 CPU cores that can be individually controlled or powered, and the clock frequency is adjustable from 80 MHz to 240 MHz. The user may also power off the CPU and make use of the low power coprocessor to constantly monitor the peripherals for changes or crossing of thresholds. ESP32 integrates a rich set of peripherals, ranging from capacitive touch sensors, Hall sensors, low noise sense amplifiers, SD card interface, Ethernet, high speed SDIO/SPI, UART, I2S and I2C.

The integration of Bluetooth, Bluetooth LE and Wi-Fi ensures that a wide range of applications can be targeted, and that it is future proof: using Wi-Fi allows a large physical range and direct connection to the internet through a Wi-Fi router, while using Bluetooth allows the user to conveniently connect to the phone or broadcast low energy beacons for its detection. The sleep current of the ESP32 chip is less than 5uA, making it suitable for battery powered and wearable electronics applications. ESP-WROOM-32 supports data rates up to 150 Mbps, and 22 dBm output power at the PA to ensure the widest physical range. As such the chip does offer industry leading specifications and the best optimized performance for electronic integration, range and power consumption, and connectivity.

ESP-WROOM-32 has Espressif’s long term support — ESP32 will be covered under Espressif’s longevity program and be available for the next 12 years. The design of ESP-WROOM-32 will be open-source when it has been fully optimized. Feedbacks about the module, chip, API or firmware can be sent to [email protected].

Notes on ESP8266

ESP8266

Factss

Other versions

Some comments from Timothy

  • Well, I have looked into that and figured out that the ESP8266 has 2 SPI interfaces (SPI and HSPI), the Flash memory uses the SPI interface, so we can attach the ADC to the HSPI interface and configure the SPI clock to between 1MHz to 80MHz depending on what we need. Therefore, it turns out it is possible to use an ADC with SPI interface, though it will involve some changes to the SPI registers but it can be done.
  • The HSPI is definitely better than a software SPI. However, without the DMA (the HSPI isn't connected to it) the CPU will be distracted every time when a word is received via the HSPI. This means that the 2M words/sec stream will interrupt the 80 MHz CPU of the module on every 40-th cycle. Depending on the wifi software of the module, this may be a quite long delay for the system. Fortunatelly, we can try to speed up the module to 160 MHz in case of insufficient performance.

Some comments from Igor

  • According to the PDF for ESP8266 it supports up to 40 MHz SPI clock (with default core clock) that is enough for our purpose. However, it doesn't have a DMA for the SPI master, so reading of the data from the ADC will be partially software based. This means that we can definitly pass the data through the SPI, but success of the further operations depends on the free CPU resources.

Fun piratebox

Notes on EMW3165

Fun about EMW3165

Notes on STM32F205_ref_manual

Notes on the STM32F205 Reference manual

Discussions are taking place to use the max speed on the Feather WICED:

ADC

  • Configurable DMA data storage in Dual/Triple ADC mode
  • Configurable delay between conversions in Dual/Triple interleaved mode
  • ADC conversion time: 0.5 μs with APB2 at 60 MHz
  • ADC supply requirements: 2.4 V to 3.6 V at full speed and down to 1.8 V at slower speed
  • ADC input range: V REF– ≤ V IN ≤ V REF+
  • DMA request generation during regular channel conversion
Fast conversion mode

It is possible to perform faster conversion by reducing the ADC resolution. The RES bits are used to select the number of bits available in the data register. The minimum conversion time for each resolution is then as follows:

  • 12 bits: 3 + 12 = 15 ADCCLK cycles
  • 10 bits: 3 + 10 = 13 ADCCLK cycles
  • 8 bits: 3 + 8 = 11 ADCCLK cycles
  • 6 bits: 3 + 6 = 9 ADCCLK cycles

Calibration

Using the feather WICED to produce a waveform:

Versions of code so far

Compared to the waveform detailed above, gives the following acquisition:

ADC common control register (ADC_CCR)

When the DMA mode is enabled (DMA bit set to 1 in the ADC_CR2 register), after each conversion of a regular channel, a DMA request is generated. This allows the transfer of the converted data from the ADC_DR register to the destination location selected by the software

  • MULTI[4:0]: Multi ADC mode selection
  • 10001 to 11001: Triple mode: ADC1, 2 and 3 working together
  • 10111: interleaved mode only
Comment on the code
Initialization of the ADC
  // We configure the ADC1 and ADC2
  // Setting max sampling rate
  rcc_set_prescaler(RCC_PRESCALER_ADC, RCC_ADCPRE_PCLK_DIV_2);
  adc_set_sample_rate(ADC1, ADC_SMPR_1_5);
  adc_set_sample_rate(ADC2, ADC_SMPR_1_5);
  //  adc_set_sample_rate(ADC2, ADC_SMPR_3);

  //6=0110 for dual regular simultaneous mode
  // FOR STM32F1 -- DUALMOD[3:0]: Dual mode selection is on ADC control register 1 (ADC_CR1) - has to be changed
  // Bits 19:16 DUALMOD[3:0]: Dual mode selection
  // 7 is for interleaved mode.
  ADC1->regs->CR1 |= 7 << 16;

  //only one input in the sequence for both ADC: the channel 1

  adc_set_reg_seqlen(ADC1, 1);
  adc_set_reg_seqlen(ADC2, 1);
  adc_set_reg_seqlen(ADC3, 1);
  // Aiming at Interleaved mode on 1 channel in continuous conversion mode: triple ADC mode
  //channel 1 (PA1) on ADC1
  ADC1->regs->SQR1 |= 0;
  ADC1->regs->SQR2 = 0;
  ADC1->regs->SQR3 = 1; //00000.00000.00001
  //channel 1 (PA1) on ADC2
  ADC2->regs->SQR1 |= 0;
  ADC2->regs->SQR2 = 0; //00000.00000.00000
  ADC2->regs->SQR3 = 1; //00000.00000.00010
  //channel 1 (PA1) on ADC3
  ADC3->regs->SQR1 |= 0;
  ADC3->regs->SQR2 = 0; //00000.00000.00000
  ADC3->regs->SQR3 = 1; //00000.00000.00010
Acquisition

Acquisition takes place in a loop, where 2*BUFFERSIZE data is acquired. Values from ADC1 and ADC2 go into val1 and val2.

    while (i < BUFFERSIZE) {
      // ADC : page 212 to 254 in the reference manual

      //start conversion
      ADC1->regs->CR2 |= ADC_CR2_SWSTART;
      ADC2->regs->CR2 |= ADC_CR2_SWSTART;

      // Wait the end of the conversion
      while (!(ADC1->regs->SR & ADC_SR_EOC)) ;
      while (!(ADC2->regs->SR & ADC_SR_EOC)) ;

      // Get the values converted from the two ADCs.
      // They are sharing the same channel, in interleaved mode
      val1[i] = (int16)(ADC1->regs->DR & ADC_DR_DATA);
      val2[i] = (int16)(ADC2->regs->DR & ADC_DR_DATA);
      i++;
   }

Notes on R2R_DAC

Playing with a R2R resistor ladder, AKA the quick DAC.

Playing with a 22kO R ladder

An R–2R Ladder is a simple and inexpensive way to perform digital-to-analog conversion, using repetitive arrangements of precise resistor networks in a ladder-like configuration. A string resistor ladder implements the non-repetitive reference network.

Let's try to see if we can do some signal with it!

Playing with it

What does it look like?

Playing with the variant 2 of the code below (increase, bit by bit, over 6 bits)

Limitations

With the variant 2, the quickest signal is at ~5MHz

But when feeding the ladder, it slows... see characteristic time below

Conclusions

Let's try something with the variant 1, feeding the Arduino a translation of one image! It has 28K of flash, let' remove 2k for code, 26kb, using 6-bit accuracy, is 64, leaves 4k points.

Trinket pro codes

Variant 1

The quickest so far

void setup()
 {
  DDRC = 255; // set PORTD (Pins 0-7) to outputs
  PORTC = 0;  // Set all pins LOW
 }

void loop() {
   PORTC = B0000000;   
   PORTC = B0000001;   
   PORTC = B0000010;   
   PORTC = B0000011;   
   PORTC = B0000100;   
   PORTC = B0000101;   
   PORTC = B0000110;   
   PORTC = B0000111;
   PORTC = B0001000;   
   PORTC = B0001001;   
   PORTC = B0001010;   
   PORTC = B0001011;   
   PORTC = B0001100;   
   PORTC = B0001101;   
   PORTC = B0001110;   
   PORTC = B0001111;
}

Variant 2

Using autoincrement of PORTC:

void setup()
{
  DDRC = 255; // set PORTD (Pins 0-7) to outputs
  PORTC = 0;  // Set all pins LOW
}

void loop() {
   PORTC++;
}

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