Re: [Mspgcc-users] TIMERA timing

[Steve Underwood]

Robert Seczkowski wrote:

How is possible, that period when ' ' apears on usart0 is 10 times longer, than calculated period ( 8MHz/8=SMCLK,

SMCLK/2 =500KHz;period=1/500*65535=~0.125sec)
interrupt (TIMERA_VECTOR)TAISR(void);
static i = 0;

interrupt (TIMERA_VECTOR)TAISR(void){
i =1;
}
int main(){
TACTL = ID_1|TASSEL_2|TACLR             //SMCLK/2
TACCTL0 = CCIE;
        for(;;){
                if (i==1){
                i=0;
                while(!(U0IFG & UTXIFG)) U0TXBUF=' ';
                }
        }
}

How the USART behave when you do something very wrong, like
   while(!(U0IFG & UTXIFG)) U0TXBUF=' ';
I wonder :-)

Regards,
Steve