From:  Nhan Nguyen <[email protected]>
Reply-To:  <[email protected]>
Date:  Saturday, February 22, 2014 at 5:40 PM
To:  <[email protected]>
Subject:  Re: [beagleboard] PRUSS and accessing ADC registers on Beaglebone
Black

> Hi Charles,
> 
> Thank you very much for your answer. I manage to access it after enable ADC
> using 'echo BB-ADC > /sys/devices/bone.capemgr.*/slots' . Though I could only
> do it in kernel 3.8, later kernel (3.12) gives an error saying symbol ocp
> could not be found. I do not really know how to change the .dts to get it
> working . Anyhow, I will work with 3.8 for now.
There is no cape manager in V3.12

Regards,
John
> 
> Sincere,
> Nhan Nguyen
> 
> On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:57:31 PM UTC+1, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
>> On 2/19/2014 7:43 AM, Nhan Nguyen wrote:
>>> > Hi everyone, 
>>> > 
>>> > I have been trying to use PRU to read multiple ADC inputs. Unfornately, I
>>> > am stuck at accessing to the ADC registers (chapter 12 on AM335x technical
>>> > reference manual). I set the OCP registers, checked the PMAO registers on
>>> > PRU to ensure access to external host. For example, I read the ADC
>>> REVISION 
>>> > as below: (tried to write to STEPCONFIG and STEPENABLE, etc.)
>>> > 
>>> >    MOV r13, 0x44E0D000 //ADC REVISION
>>> >    LBBO r5, r13, 0, 4
>>> >    SBCO r5, C28, 4, 4  //store REVISION to shared memory to show with C
>>> > program 
>>> > 
>>> > .. but everything returns 0.
>>> > 
>>> > I install Ubuntu 13.04 on Beaglebone Black, tried kernels 3.8, 3.12. PRU
>>> > worked with shared memory accessing, and GPIO1 registers (I am not sure
>>> > what to try next) . I haven't tried it on the official Angstrom image,
>>> > because I still couldn't get PRU to work right away on it.
>> 
>> I suggest you remove the PRU from the setup temporarily and try directly
>> reading the memory from C.  This will be a lot easier to debug, and the
>> PRU has no chance of reading ADC values if you can't read them from the ARM.
>> 
>> As a guess, I suspect you don't have the ADC hardware setup properly and
>> are getting bus faults when reading.  This will show up as an error if
>> you try to read the memory location from the ARM (making it easier to
>> debug).  Make sure you have loaded a device tree overlay that enables
>> the TSC hardware (Touch Screen Controller = ADC) and populates an
>> appropriate state-machine instruction table to digitize the values you
>> are interested in.  Unlike simpler microcontrollers, each major
>> subsystem in the AM335x can be powered up or shut down, and by default
>> most systems (ADC, PWM, etc) are powered down with their clocks disabled
>> until you explicitly enable them.
>> 
>> Once you can properly read the values from a raw memory location using
>> the ARM, the PRU should be able to read them as well.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Charles Steinkuehler
>> [email protected] <javascript:>
> 
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