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nRF9160 > Count pulse on GPIO

Oleh

Dear Team,

what is the way to do it in Zephyr? 

I have a signal up-to 10kHz, what is the best way to keep the counter in the background?

Thank you and best

Oleh

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    Hi.

    You can use Zephyr's GPIO driver to configure interrupts. 

    Have a look at the documentation here.

    Best regards,

    Didrik

  • 0 in reply to Didrik Rokhaug

    Hi Didrik,

    thank you, I'm new to Zephyr so trying to map my nrf knowledge to zephyr Slight smile

    To complement and test the counter on gpio, I thought to put the second DevKit board into generation mode. Could you please point on the right track with how can the generation on-off be done in background on Zephyr?

    thanks & best

    Oleh

  • 0 in reply to Didrik Rokhaug

    aha! that was the missing part, thank you!

    I will try for the Secure board. 

    In order to use DPPI on the NonSecure, would this be sufficient:

    PERIPH("NRF_DPPI", NRF_DPPIC_NS, CONFIG_SPM_NRF_DPPIC_NS), // adding to spm.c in the periph_cfg periph[]

    And also: 

     if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPM_NRF_GPIOTE1_NS)) {
      /* Configure DPPI to be Non-Secure */
      NRF_SPU->DPPI[0].PERM = 0;
     }

    thank you!

  • 0 in reply to Oleh

    Almost.

    In addition to

    PERPIH("NRF_DPPI", NRF_DPPIC_NS, CONFIG_SPM_NRF_DPPIC_NS),
    in spm.c:304 and

    if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPM_NRF_GPIOTE1_NS)) {
    NRF_SPU->DPPI[0].PERM = 0;
}
    in spm.c:326

    I also had to add

    PERIPH("NRF_RTC0", NRF_RTC0, CONFIG_SPM_NRF_RTC0_NS),
    in spm.c:305,

    config SPM_NRF_DPPIC_NS
	bool "DPPI is Non-Secure"
	default y

config SPM_NRF_RTC0_NS
	bool "RTC0 is Non-Secure"
	default y
    in ncs/nrf/subsys/spm/Kconfig:180, and

    CONFIG_PPI_TRACE_PIN_RTC_COMPARE_EVT=10
CONFIG_PPI_TRACE_PIN_RTC_TICK_EVT=11
CONFIG_PPI_TRACE_PIN_LFCLOCK_STARTED_EVT=12
    in prj.conf

  • 0 in reply to Didrik Rokhaug

    Hi Didrik, thanks! that was to make the ppi_trace to work. 

    could you please help on wiring Counter and Timer to get it with DPPI as here: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/9036/measuring-input-gpio-pin-frequency-with-soft-device-running ?

  • 0 in reply to Oleh

    am I on the right way?

    static void timer_init()
{
 NRF_TIMER1_NS->TASKS_STOP = 1;
 NRF_TIMER1_NS->MODE = TIMER_MODE_MODE_Timer;
 NRF_TIMER1_NS->PRESCALER = 8; // Fhck / 2^8 
 NRF_TIMER1_NS->CC[0] = 62500; // 62500 - 1s
 
 NRF_TIMER1_NS->BITMODE = (TIMER_BITMODE_BITMODE_16Bit << TIMER_BITMODE_BITMODE_Pos); 
 
 NRF_TIMER1_NS->TASKS_CLEAR = 1;
 NRF_TIMER1_NS->INTENSET = (TIMER_INTENSET_COMPARE0_Enabled << TIMER_INTENSET_COMPARE0_Pos);
 
 NRF_TIMER1_NS->EVENTS_COMPARE[0] = 0;
}

static void counter_init()
{
 NRF_TIMER2_NS->TASKS_STOP = 1; 
 NRF_TIMER2_NS->MODE = TIMER_MODE_MODE_Counter;
 NRF_TIMER2_NS->BITMODE = (TIMER_BITMODE_BITMODE_24Bit << TIMER_BITMODE_BITMODE_Pos);
 NRF_TIMER2_NS->TASKS_CLEAR = 1;
 NRF_TIMER2_NS->EVENTS_COMPARE[0] = 0;
}

#define SENSE_PIN 13
static void gpiote_init(uint32_t pin)
{
 NRF_GPIOTE1_NS->CONFIG[0]  =  0x01 << 0;         // MODE: Event
 NRF_GPIOTE1_NS->CONFIG[0]  |=  SENSE_PIN << 8;       // Pin number
 NRF_GPIOTE1_NS->CONFIG[0]  |=  NRF_GPIOTE_POLARITY_LOTOHI << 16;  // Event rising edge  
}

static void ppi_timer_stop_counter_init()
{
 //NRF_DPPIC_NS->CHEN |= 1 << 0;
 //*(&(NRF_DPPIC_NS->CH0_EEP)) = (uint32_t)&NRF_TIMER1_NS->EVENTS_COMPARE[0];
 //*(&(NRF_DPPIC_NS->CH0_TEP)) = (uint32_t)&NRF_TIMER2_NS->TASKS_STOP;
 //NRF_DPPIC_NS->CHENSET |= 1 << 0;
 
 #define EVT_IX_TIMER1__COMPARE 1
 #define TSK_IX_TIMER2__STOP_COUNTER 1
    // Configure GPIOTE Index 0 to be an Event -> 
    nrf_gpiote_event_configure(EVT_IX_TIMER1__COMPARE, nrf_timer_event_address_get(NRF_TIMER1_NS, NRF_TIMER_EVENT_COMPARE_1) ...);
    // Configure GPIOTE Index 1 to be a Task -> 
    nrf_gpiote_task_configure(TSK_IX_TIMER2__STOP_COUNTER, nrf_timer_event_address_get(NRF_TIMER2_NS, NRF_TIMER_TASK_COUNT) ...);
    // Index 0 will Publish on DPPI Channel 0 
    nrf_gpiote_publish_set(NRF_GPIOTE_EVENTS_IN_0, DPPI_CHANNEL);
    // Index 1 will Subscribe on DPPI Channel 0 
    nrf_gpiote_subscribe_set(NRF_GPIOTE_TASKS_OUT_1, DPPI_CHANNEL);
    // Enable Publish and Subscribe 
    nrf_gpiote_event_enable(EVT_IX_TIMER1__COMPARE);
    nrf_gpiote_task_enable(TSK_IX_TIMER2__STOP_COUNTER);
    // Enable DPPI Channel 
    nrf_dppi_channels_enable(NRF_DPPIC, DPPI_BIT_SET(DPPI_CHANNEL));
}

static void ppi_gpiote_counter_init()
{
 NRF_DPPIC_NS->CHEN |= 1 << 1;
 *(&(NRF_DPPIC_NS->CH1_EEP)) = (uint32_t)&NRF_GPIOTE1_NS->EVENTS_IN[0];
 *(&(NRF_DPPIC_NS->CH1_TEP)) = (uint32_t)&NRF_TIMER2_NS->TASKS_COUNT;
 NRF_DPPIC_NS->CHENSET |= 1 << 1;
}

  • 0 in reply to Oleh

    Hi, and apologies for the late answer.

    I believe that most of the code you posted should work, but especially the parts concerning PPI would not work due to differences between PPI and DPPI.

    I was able to port an example written by  for another case. The sample is made to measure much higher frequencies than what you have, so you might want to edit some of the timer configurations in main().

    dppi_frequency.zip

    To make the sample compile, you must also add

    #define GPIOTE_IRQn GPIOTE0_IRQn

    in ncs/zephyr/ext/hal/nordic/nrfx_config_nrf9160.h, on line 200.

    Also, you must configure the DPPI peripheral as non-secure as done in a previous comment.

    A pre-compiled hex file is included for your convenience.

    Best regards,

    Didrik

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  • 0 in reply to Oleh

    Hi, and apologies for the late answer.

    I believe that most of the code you posted should work, but especially the parts concerning PPI would not work due to differences between PPI and DPPI.

    I was able to port an example written by  for another case. The sample is made to measure much higher frequencies than what you have, so you might want to edit some of the timer configurations in main().

    dppi_frequency.zip

    To make the sample compile, you must also add

    #define GPIOTE_IRQn GPIOTE0_IRQn

    in ncs/zephyr/ext/hal/nordic/nrfx_config_nrf9160.h, on line 200.

    Also, you must configure the DPPI peripheral as non-secure as done in a previous comment.

    A pre-compiled hex file is included for your convenience.

    Best regards,

    Didrik

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