Atmega8 microcontroller reading from bluetooth - bluetooth

I want to read a byte sent by Bluetooth to the Atmega8 to process it. I found this function online to receive a byte
uint8_t receiveByte()
{
// Wait until a byte has been received
while((UCSRA&(1<<RXC)) == 0);
// Return received data
return UDR;
}
but it doesn't work by say turning a led on if 'a' was sent, so when I changed it and enabled port c to HIGH just before the while loop, and turned it low after it, but port c never gone low - which means this loop is infinite.
so my question is how to fix it or how can I read a byte from Bluetooth module
its atmega8-16pu and I configured it as follows:
/** define the cpu clock frequency*/
#define F_CPU 8000000UL
and fuse = 0xD9C4, from this site http://www.engbedded.com/fusecalc/

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SPI linux driver

I am trying to learn how to write a basic SPI driver and below is the probe function that I wrote.
What I am trying to do here is setup the spi device for fram(datasheet) and use the spi_sync_transfer()api description to get the manufacturer's id from the chip.
When I execute this code, I can see the data on the SPI bus using logic analyzer but I am unable to read it using the rx buffer. Am I missing something here? Could someone please help me with this?
static int fram_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
{
int err;
unsigned char ch16[] = {0x9F,0x00,0x00,0x00};// 0x9F => 10011111
unsigned char rx16[] = {0x00,0x00,0x00,0x00};
printk("[FRAM DRIVER] fram_probe called \n");
spi->max_speed_hz = 1000000;
spi->bits_per_word = 8;
spi->mode = (3);
err = spi_setup(spi);
if (err < 0) {
printk("[FRAM DRIVER::fram_probe spi_setup failed!\n");
return err;
}
printk("[FRAM DRIVER] spi_setup ok, cs: %d\n", spi->chip_select);
spi_element[0].tx_buf = ch16;
spi_element[1].rx_buf = rx16;
err = spi_sync_transfer(spi, spi_element, ARRAY_SIZE(spi_element)/2);
printk("rx16=%x %x %x %x\n",rx16[0],rx16[1],rx16[2],rx16[3]);
if (err < 0) {
printk("[FRAM DRIVER]::fram_probe spi_sync_transfer failed!\n");
return err;
}
return 0;
}
spi_element is not declared in this example. You should show that and also how all elements of that are array are filled. But just from the code that's there I see a couple mistakes.
You need to set the len parameter of spi_transfer. You've assigned the TX or RX buffer to ch16 or rx16 but not set the length of the buffer in either case.
You should zero out all the fields not used in the spi_transfer.
If you set the length to four, you would not be sending the proper command according to the datasheet. RDID expects a one byte command after which will follow four bytes of output data. You are writing a four byte command in your first transfer and then reading four bytes of data. The tx_buf in the first transfer should just be one byte.
And finally the number of transfers specified as the last argument to spi_sync_transfer() is incorrect. It should be 2 in this case because you have defined two, spi_element[0] and spi_element[1]. You could use ARRAY_SIZE() if spi_element was declared for the purpose of this message and you want to sent all transfers in the array.
Consider this as a way to better fill in the spi_transfers. It will take care of zeroing out fields that are not used, defines the transfers in a easy to see way, and changing the buffer sizes or the number of transfers is automatically accounted for in remaining code.
const char ch16[] = { 0x8f };
char rx16[4];
struct spi_transfer rdid[] = {
{ .tx_buf = ch16, .len = sizeof(ch16) },
{ .rx_buf = rx16, .len = sizeof(rx16) },
};
spi_transfer(spi, rdid, ARRAY_SIZE(rdid));
Since you have a scope, be sure to check that this operation happens under a single chip select pulse. I have found more than one Linux SPI driver to have a bug that pulses chip select when it should not. In some cases switching from TX to RX (like done above) will trigger a CS pulse. In other cases a CS pulse is generated for every word (8 bits here) of data.
Another thing you should change is use dev_info(&spi->dev, "device version %d", id)' and also dev_err() to print messages. This inserts the device name in a standard way instead of your hard-coded non-standard and inconsistent "[FRAME DRIVER]::" text. And sets the level of the message as appropriate.
Also, consider supporting device tree in your driver to read device properties. Then you can do things like change the SPI bus frequency for this device without rebuilding the kernel driver.

incomplete reading data serial port

I want to read 6 data sensors from arduino to VC++ with "handshaking" methods, I send "1" to arduino then this device will send the data to PC.
My data format is:
&data0,data1,data2,data3,data4,data5%
But when I read it with VC++ data always incomplete, even thought the size of buffer is enough for all the data
here is the snapshot of my vC++ program, I put it on timer event
DWORD nbytes;
char buffer[24];
//Read Sensors
if(!WriteFile( hnd_serial, "1", 1, &nbytes, NULL )){KillTimer(cTimer1);MessageBox(L"Write Com Port fail!");return;}
Sleep(5);
if(!ReadFile( hnd_serial, buffer, 23, &nbytes, NULL )){KillTimer(cTimer1);MessageBox(L"Read Com Port fail!");return;}
Sleep(50);
I have changed the baud rate but the result still the same.
but If I reduce one data such as data5 (become 5 sensors), data is complete.
Have I do something wrong with my program?
You can put your ReadFile() function inside a do-while loop.
do{
if(!ReadFile( hnd_serial, buffer, 23, &nbytes, NULL )){
//Process error
break;
}
if (nbytes>= 6)
{
//Put your flag - or process here
break;
}
}while(nbytes);
The ReadFile() only returns the current buffer status, it will not wait for receiving full of your expected data
You don't say what baud rate you're working with.
You also don't say what, if any, receive timeouts have been set.
Lets assume it's 9600 that means the port transfers 960 bytes per second. So just over 1 millisecond per byte.
If your sleep(5) is supposed to wait for the "1" to be sent AND for the the data to come back then you ought to wait long enough for all of your bytes to be transferred. Assuming timeouts are set so that the ReadFile returns immediately with whatever bytes are in the RX buffer then there's a chance you're reading too quickly.
Try a bigger delay.

UART takes some "kicking" to start receiving data

I am using a UART on a single board computer (Olimex A13) and I am trying to send and receive data through the UART. On the send side I have no problems. The Olimex board sends data to the serial buss and it is received on an external PC that is running putty terminal.
When I try to go in the other direction (PC sends data to be received by the Olimex board) I am running into a weird problem. When I start to send data, initially no data shows up on the Olimex board (I have tried 2 methods... cat /dev/ttyS0 and setting up a receive C program. Both exhibit the same results).
If I send data for a while (seems to vary from less than 10 characters to something over 20) at some point the uart seems to "wake up" and now data appears on the Olimex board. Once the data transfer starts it will keep going as long as I want and at fast or slow data rates. If I break out of the receive program or end the cat /dev/ttyS0 process and try to start receiving again, I need to go through the same process of "kicking" the uart until it decides it wants to receive again.
I have put an oscilloscope on the RX pin leading into the UART. The data coming in is at good levels and the data appears here from the very first send so the data is not being blocked initially and then arriving at the RX pin at some time later. So I am currently assuming that the issue is with a UART setting of some kind. Does anyone know of a UART setting that could possibly explain this behavior?
Below is the receive program that I am running. I don't think that there is an issue with it because I see the same behavior when I do a cat /dev/ttyS0. Any help here would be appreciated.
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <termios.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#define BAUDRATE B115200
#define MODEMDEVICE "/dev/ttyS0"
#define _POSIX_SOURCE 1 /* POSIX compliant source */
#define FALSE 0
#define TRUE 1
volatile int STOP=FALSE;
main()
{
int fd,c, res;
struct termios oldtio,newtio;
char buf[255];
fd = open(MODEMDEVICE, O_RDWR | O_NOCTTY );
if (fd <0) {perror(MODEMDEVICE); return(-1); }
tcgetattr(fd,&oldtio); /* save current port settings */
bzero(&newtio, sizeof(newtio));
newtio.c_cflag = BAUDRATE | CRTSCTS | CS8 | CLOCAL | CREAD;
newtio.c_iflag = IGNPAR;
newtio.c_oflag = 0;
/* set input mode (non-canonical, no echo,...) */
newtio.c_lflag = 0;
newtio.c_cc[VTIME] = 0; /* inter-character timer unused */
newtio.c_cc[VMIN] = 1; /* blocking read until 5 chars received */
tcflush(fd, TCIFLUSH);
tcsetattr(fd,TCSANOW,&newtio);
while (STOP==FALSE) { /* loop for input */
res = read(fd,buf,255); /* returns after 5 chars have been input */
buf[res]=0; /* so we can printf... */
printf("String:%s - Character Count:%d\n", buf, res);
if (buf[0]=='z') STOP=TRUE;
}
tcsetattr(fd,TCSANOW,&oldtio);
}
Sawdust made these comments....
"sends data to the serial buss" -- RS232 is not a "buss". "When I
start to send data" -- Your writing style is confusing. What kind of
data is sent to the Olimex? For the cat /dev/ttyS0 test, how did you
set up the serial port, or was it in an unknown mode? bzero(&newtio,
sizeof(newtio)); -- That is a dangerous way to setup the termios
structure. newtio.c_cflag = BAUDRATE... That is not the proper way to
set the baud rate; you need to use the cfset[io]speed() functions. You
write of a "kick", yet you don't mention doing anything explicit
ok, RS232 is not a buss, I misspoke....
The data I am sending is a stream of characters that are typed on Putty terminal.
For the /dev/ttyS0 test the settings are the same as are set in the c program. I verified this using stty.
I copied this code from another post. I was not sure what bzero did. If you could expand on "dangerous" that would be great. Or better if you have a better way to do what bzero does?
I will update the way to set baud rate.. but send is working perfectly and I verified using stty that baudrate was indeed 115200.
As far as "kicking" I mean that I need to send a number of bytes of data to the uart before any appear on the console. Others have mentioned a FIFO that may be an issue here but the first characters that are sent are lost. For example if I were to send the string of characters abcdefg.... I could type up until k and then l would appear on the console, and then any future characters after l would also appear in the console. If I were to go through the same process again after starting the receive program (or cat /dev/ttyS0) the point where the receive starts appearing could be in a different place (i.e. at h or n).

Unclear logic behind pl011_tx_chars() in amba-pl011 Linux kernel module

I'm trying to understand how Linux driver for AMBA serial port (amba-pl011.c) sends characters in non-DMA mode. For port operations, this driver registers only following callbacks:
static struct uart_ops amba_pl011_pops = {
.tx_empty = pl011_tx_empty,
.set_mctrl = pl011_set_mctrl,
.get_mctrl = pl011_get_mctrl,
.stop_tx = pl011_stop_tx,
.start_tx = pl011_start_tx,
.stop_rx = pl011_stop_rx,
.enable_ms = pl011_enable_ms,
.break_ctl = pl011_break_ctl,
.startup = pl011_startup,
.shutdown = pl011_shutdown,
.flush_buffer = pl011_dma_flush_buffer,
.set_termios = pl011_set_termios,
.type = pl011_type,
.release_port = pl011_release_port,
.request_port = pl011_request_port,
.config_port = pl011_config_port,
.verify_port = pl011_verify_port,
.poll_init = pl011_hwinit,
.poll_get_char = pl011_get_poll_char,
.poll_put_char = pl011_put_poll_char };
As you can see, there's no character sending operation among them, namely, pl011_tx_chars() function is not listed there. Since pl011_tx_chars() is declared static, it is not exposed outside the module. I found that within the module it is called only from pl011_int() function which is an interrupt handler. It is called whenever UART011_TXIS occurs:
if (status & UART011_TXIS) pl011_tx_chars(uap);
The function pl011_tx_chars() itself writes characters from circular buffer to UART01x_DR port until the fifo queue size is reached (function returns then so more data will be written at the next interrupt) or until circular buffer is empty (pl011_stop_tx() is called then). As we can see, pl011_start_tx() and pl011_stop_tx() are listed in AMBA port operations (so they can be called as callbacks despite their local static declaration). Seems reasonable, thing is, these two function do something very simple:
static void pl011_stop_tx(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct uart_amba_port *uap = (struct uart_amba_port *)port;
uap->im &= ~UART011_TXIM;
writew(uap->im, uap->port.membase + UART011_IMSC);
pl011_dma_tx_stop(uap);
}
static void pl011_start_tx(struct uart_port *port)
{
struct uart_amba_port *uap = (struct uart_amba_port *)port;
if (!pl011_dma_tx_start(uap)) {
uap->im |= UART011_TXIM;
writew(uap->im, uap->port.membase + UART011_IMSC);
}
}
Since I don't have CONFIG_DMA_ENGINE set, pl011_dma_tx_start() and pl011_dma_tx_stop() are just stubs:
static inline void pl011_dma_tx_stop(struct uart_amba_port *uap)
{
}
static inline bool pl011_dma_tx_start(struct uart_amba_port *uap)
{
return false;
}
Seems like the only thing that pl011_start_tx() does is to arm UART011_TXIM interrupt while the only thing that pl011_stop_tx() does is to disarm it. Nothing initiates the transmission!
I looked at serial_core.c - it's the only file where start_tx operation is invoked, in four places (by the registered callback). The most promissing place is uart_write() function. It fills circular buffer with data and calls local static uart_start() function which is very simple:
static void __uart_start(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
struct uart_state *state = tty->driver_data;
struct uart_port *port = state->uart_port;
if (!uart_circ_empty(&state->xmit) && state->xmit.buf &&
!tty->stopped && !tty->hw_stopped)
port->ops->start_tx(port);
}
static void uart_start(struct tty_struct *tty)
{
struct uart_state *state = tty->driver_data;
struct uart_port *port = state->uart_port;
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
__uart_start(tty);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
}
As you can see, no one sends initial characters to the UART port, circular buffer is filled and everything is waiting for UART011_TXIS interrupt.
Is it possible that arming UART011_TXIM interrupt instantly emits UART011_TXIS? I looked into DDI0183.pdf (PrimeCell® UART (PL011) Technical Referecne Manual), Chapter 3: Programmers Model, section 3.4: Interrupts, subsection 3.4.3 UARTTXINTR. What it says is:
....
The transmit interrupt changes state when one of the following events occurs:
• If the FIFOs are enabled and the transmit FIFO reaches the programmed trigger
level. When this happens, the transmit interrupt is asserted HIGH. The transmit
interrupt is cleared by writing data to the transmit FIFO until it becomes greater
than the trigger level, or by clearing the interrupt.
• If the FIFOs are disabled (have a depth of one location) and there is no data
present in the transmitters single location, the transmit interrupt is asserted HIGH.
It is cleared by performing a single write to the transmit FIFO, or by clearing the
interrupt.
....
The note below is even more interesting:
....
The transmit interrupt is based on a transition through a level, rather than on the level
itself. When the interrupt and the UART is enabled before any data is written to the
transmit FIFO the interrupt is not set. The interrupt is only set once written data leaves
the single location of the transmit FIFO and it becomes empty.
....
The emphasis above is mine. I don't know if my English is not sufficient, but from the words above I can't find where it states that unlocking transmit interrupt can be used for triggering transmit routine. What am I missing?
The ARM docs say that the PL011 is a "16550-ish" UART. This sort of gets them off the hook for fully specifying its behavior and instead sends you to the 16550 docs, which state in the "FIFO interrupt mode operation" section...
When the XMIT FIFO and transmitter interrupts are enabled (FCR0e1,
IER1e1), XMIT interrupts will occur as follows: A. The transmitter
holding register interrupt (02) occurs when the XMIT FIFO is empty; it
is cleared as soon as the transmitter holding register is written to
(1 to 16 characters may be written to the XMIT FIFO while servicing
this interrupt) or the IIR is read.
So, it appears that if the FIFO and TX holding register are empty and you enable TX interrupts, you should immediately see a TX interrupt that kickstarts the sending process and fills the holding register and then the FIFO. Once those drain back down below the FIFO trigger, then another interrupt will be generated to keep the process going for as long as there is more buffered data to be sent.

How to read from a Linux serial port

I am working on robot which has to control using wireless serial communication. The robot is running on a microcontroller (by burning a .hex file). I want to control it using my Linux (Ubuntu) PC. I am new to serial port programming. I am able to send the data, but I am not able to read data.
A few piece of code which is running over at the microcontroller:
Function to send data:
void TxData(unsigned char tx_data)
{
SBUF = tx_data; // Transmit data that is passed to this function
while(TI == 0) // Wait while data is being transmitted
;
}
I am sending data through an array of characters data_array[i]:
for (i=4; i<=6; i++)
{
TxData(data_array[i]);
RI = 0; // Clear receive interrupt. Must be cleared by the user.
TI = 0; // Clear transmit interrupt. Must be cleared by the user.
}
Now the piece of code from the C program running on Linux...
while (flag == 0) {
int res = read(fd, buf, 255);
buf[res] = 0; /* Set end of string, so we can printf */
printf(":%s:%d\n", buf, res);
if (buf[0] == '\0')
flag = 1;
}
It prints out value of res = 0.
Actually I want to read data character-by-character to perform calculations and take further decision. Is there another way of doing this?
Note: Is there good study material (code) for serial port programming on Linux?
How can I read from the Linux serial port...
This is a good guide: Serial Programming Guide for POSIX Operating Systems
The read call may return with no data and errno set to EAGAIN. You need to check the return value and loop around to read again if you're expecting data to arrive.
First, take a look at /proc/tty/driver/serial to see that everything is set up correctly (i.e., you see the signals you should see). Then, have a look at the manual page for termios(3), you may be interested in the VMIN and VTIME explanation.

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