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Posted by BEXX: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 02:21 PM
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Hi guys,

I'm trying to send many data bytes at once via UART to the PC using Peter Fleurys UART Library.
The TX buffer size is about 32 Byte, but I need to transfer much more,

so I tried to check, if the TX buffer is empty and then send the next byte.

As proposed in some threads here, I used

while ( !( UCSR0A & (1<<UDRE0)) );

but that doesn't seem to work. This line freezes everything.

Can anybody please explain what's happening and how get it work?

for (uint8_t i = 1; i< 200; i++ )
{
    while ( !( UCSR0A & (1<<UDRE0)) );// Wait until buffer is empty
    uart_putc(i);
}

Many thanks!
BEXX

 
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Posted by joeymorin: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 02:27 PM
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The library handles its own ring buffer.  No need to check the hardware buffer.

 

for (uint8_t i = 1; i< 200; i++ )
{
    uart_putc(i);
}

Have you not looked at the documentation?:

http://homepage.hispeed.ch/peterfleury/doxygen/avr-gcc-libraries/group__pfleury__uart.html

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Posted by BEXX: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 05:35 PM (Reply to #2)
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...you are right!

It works quite fine using it separately ...now I'm looking for something else being wrong with my code ;-)

 

Thanks!

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Posted by BEXX: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 06:09 PM
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I've been just doing one more test.

Using it at the beginning of the code it works fine as mentioned before but using it somewhere in the middle of the code, nothing is working anymore.

But using it with only 10 byte, it is working elsewhere in the code fine also.

 

for (uint8_t i = 0; i< 10; i++ )
{
	uart_putc(i);
}

Any idea what might have been changed to get this behaviour or what I have to look for to get it working?

 

 

 
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Posted by sternst: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 06:16 PM (Reply to #4)
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Where exactly is "somewhere in the middle of the code"? Inside of an ISR by any chance?

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Posted by BEXX: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 06:22 PM (Reply to #5)
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No ISR. 

I placed it for testing in different 'normal' functions and the behaviour is always the same.

If it has more than 32 Byte for sending, it crashes...

... I checked it again: 32 bytes does not work also, it is only 31 byte sending in line working.

I then tried sending always 31 byte in a loop with a delay of 1000ms. This either doesn't work.

 

I'm totally confused.

 

(I'm using AtmelStudio 7)

 

 
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Posted by ki0bk: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 06:25 PM
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Please post a small complete program that demos the problem!

 

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Posted by ki0bk: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 06:30 PM
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BEXX wrote:
The TX buffer size is about 32 Byte

What do you mean by about 32 bytes?    PF doc says: Size of the circular transmit buffer, must be power of 2,  same for the RX buffer too.

so if it is not exactly 32, or 16 or 64.....    it will not work as expected, what value do you have for UART_TX_BUFFER_SIZE

 

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Posted by BEXX: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 06:47 PM (Reply to #8)
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Hi Jim,

the UART_TX_BUFFER_SIZE is defined 32.

I didn't change the library.

The complete code is quite large, so I will try to separate a working part tomorrow.

 

Thanks!

 
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Posted by Simonetta: Wed. Aug 29, 2018 - 11:22 PM
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You could increase the size of the TX buffer to 64 (or 128 if allowed in PF's library code). 

 

And increase the baud rate to 115200.  Your PC will have a bigger input buffer and can handle the incoming serial bytes much faster than the AVR can output them at 115200 baud.

 

Or, set up the timer to interrupt at an interval that equal to (or a tiny little longer) than the interval needed to send 32 bytes through the UART (about 2.7 milliSeconds at 115Kbaud).

At every timer interrupt, load the UART TX buffer with another 32 bytes.  Keep track of the number of bytes sent until you've sent them all, and then turn off the timer interrupt.

 

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Posted by BEXX: Thu. Aug 30, 2018 - 01:52 PM
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Now the problem is solved! :-)

 

I 've been using an ISR from a different library the wrong way and this was crashing the UART commands....

 

Many thanks to all!

BEXX

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Posted by awneil: Thu. Aug 30, 2018 - 02:59 PM (Reply to #11)
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BEXX wrote:
Now the problem is solved!

Excellent! 

 

Now please see Tip #5

 

EDIT

 

Oh, you have marked a solution (post #2) - but then you said that was not the solution!

 

(Tip #5 does show how you can change which post is marked)

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