From: Jim Brain (brain_at_jbrain.com)
Date: 2007-04-11 02:10:48
Hársfalvi Levente wrote:
> -- On the PIC, one instruction cycle is 4 clock cycles. A 4 Mhz PIC is
> effectively an 1Mhz MCU (see
> http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/39582b.pdf, page 159
> ... I wonder why they don't put more emphasizing on this fact ;-))) ).
> An Atmel AVR, clocked at 4Mhz is a 4Mhz MCU.
Yeah, I skipped this portion, for brevity, and because I didn't want to
offend the PIC folks. Some PICs come in 40MHz variants, which means
10MHz effective, though I believe you have to use a Xtal for that.
> You can probably take Jim's sources that he has published... I haven't
> tried his code, but if he tested it and it could do 3...255
> proportionally / without jitter, then it should be well useable. (BTW,
> as I suspect not even the original Commodore paddles would
My solution to prevent jitter was to use the internal oscillator
function in AVRs (some PICs have this as well, just to be fair). I set
the oscillator up for 8MHz (fastest), and then start watching the POT
line. When I see a zero-clamping of the POT line, I check the timer and
reset it. If the number is != 8*512, then I trim the oscillator using
the OSCCAL register to speed up or slow down the oscillator. I use a
threshold factor for the trigger (4096+-16 or so) to prevent constant
"hunting" for the right speed and to deal with the limited resolution of
the OSCCAL. As a result, you see the interface "hunt" for a few periods
at the beginning. If the number is way off (the 4066 selects the other
paddles, and then switches back, the code ignores and continues.
But, I won't guarantee the code is great. It's good enough. Perfection
is a luxury not enjoyed much anymore. It's not half bad C at that, but
it's by no means innovative. In short, standard disclaimer about my
code not being truly "hacker" worthy applies.
The only issue I have is if both paddles are exactly at the same
position. Since both are running on their own timer, and I use the
output compare IRQ, both then fight to be triggered first, and one
loses, delaying by 1uS or so (in reality, if you turn one paddle to 27,
and then turn the other one from 80 to 25, it'll go 29,28,26,25).
Changing the code to run one compare when both values are equal could be
done, but the resulting code got heavy and hard to debug, and I decided
I didn't need that level of perfection.
Begging forgiveness for my ignorance, is it Mr. Levente, or Mr.
Hársfalvi? (ie, which is first name, and which is surname?) Are there
some general rules someone less cultured like I can use to denote which
is which?
Jim
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