Spartan® Family FPGAs

[simon.b]

Hello

I'm working on a project on my Spartan3E starter kit, using MicroBlaze.

I'm trying got get a timer working in capture mode, but without luck yet. I have a PWM signal input (2nd from the top on the J2 port, LOC B6), which I want my timer to trig on (low-true), and I want to measure the time between 2 falling edges.

Here is the info I think is relevant but please ask for more if you need it:

.UCF:

Net timer_CaptureTrig0_pin LOC=B6 | IOSTANDARD = LVCMOS33;

.MHS:

PORT timer_CaptureTrig0_pin = timer_CaptureTrig0, DIR = I

BEGIN xps_timer

PARAMETER INSTANCE = timer

PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.00.a

PARAMETER C_ONE_TIMER_ONLY = 1

PARAMETER C_TRIG0_ASSERT = 0

PARAMETER C_BASEADDR = 0x83c00000

PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR = 0x83c0ffff

BUS_INTERFACE SPLB = mb_plb

PORT SPLB_Clk = sys_clk_s

PORT CaptureTrig0 = timer_CaptureTrig0

END

.C:

#include "xparameters.h"

#include "xgpio.h"

#include "xutil.h"

#include "xtmrctr.h"

int main (void)

{

  xil_printf("\n\r Entering main");  

  int counterReg = 0;

  int tDevId = XPAR_TIMER_DEVICE_ID;

  XTmrCtr timer; TmrCtr_Initialize(&timer ,tDevId);

  XTmrCtr_mSetControlStatusReg(&timer, tDevId, XTC_CSR_EXT_CAPTURE_MASK | XTC_CSR_CAPTURE_MODE_MASK | XTC_CSR_AUTO_RELOAD_MASK |     XTC_CSR_ENABLE_ALL_MASK);

  while (1)

  {

    counterReg = XTmrCtr_mGetTimerCounterReg(&timer, tDevId);

    if(XTmrCtr_mHasEventOccurred(&timer, tDevId))

    {

      xil_printf("\n\r mHasEventOccurred");

    }

    if(counterReg > 0)

    {

      xil_printf("\n\r CounterReg > 0");

      xil_printf("\n\r TimerCounterReg is: %d",counterReg);

    }

  }

}

The only output I get on my hyperterminal is:

Entering main

I think my problem lies within the TCSR (Timer Control Status Register), and I tried a couple of different MASK setups but nothing works. I also tried the XTmrCtr_SetOptions() instead of XTmrCtr_mSetControlStatusReg() with different setups. I can’t figure out what the difference is between XTmrCtr_SetOptions() and XTmrCtr_mSetControlStatusReg. But I have tried some debugging and have come to the conclusion that XTmrCtr_SetOptions() does not affect the TCSR, which is the one I think I need to setup the right way. The only thing I can get running is, if I start the timer manually with XTmrCtr_Start() and then use XTmrCtr_GetValue() function to get the current value of the counter, the counter just counts up until it reaches the end at 32bit and then stop (it’s about 1½min.). So I know that something is working.

So again I can’t get the CaptureTrig0 working. Hope someone out there can help me.

EDIT: I guess this post should have been in "EDK and Platform Studio" sorry about that.

Message Edited by simon.b on 03-15-2009 11:43 AM

Message Edited by simon.b on 03-15-2009 11:55 AM