Reading linear sensor array, TSL201R-LF: ADC with interrupt routine and DMA?

Hardware Arduino Due
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Are there any resources or open source projects that use the Arduino Due Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU’s ADC with an interrupt routine to read a photodiode array IC, or any kind of external IC with a PWM output array?

Specifically, I am using the TSL201R-LF linear sensor array, which requires three things:

  • An input clock between 5 - 5000 kHz always running
  • A serial input that pulses once at the clock rate to start/stop data transfer from the IC (64 bits) to the receiver
  • An analog input pin on the receiver, where the TSL201R-LF sends 64 clock pulses of data

For the Arduino UNO Atmega, there exists a project doing exactly this , and even a library, however the architecture is very different between the two CPUs, and code that depends on the AVR library does not compile with LibSAM.

I have tried hardcoding a software clock with the Due with delays as previously done here and here, however the sensor outputs either a maximum 1023 value or nonsensical numbers: testing the voltage on the output pin does not produce the required 2-3.4V as specified in the data sheet. Furthermore, using the ADC with an interrupt routine would allow for multiple TSL201R-LF’s to be used with a single Arduino Due.

This short tutorial uses a ADC with DMA for temporary data storage, but I could not configure the correct trigger input pulse for the serial input pin. To reiterate: are there any existing projects or code snippets that use the Arduino Due ADC with interrupts and DMA for storage of PWM data arrays?

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See this thread for ADC sampling programming (reply #1), then add a PDC DMA to log data:

https://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=487989.0

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ard_newbie, thanks for the reply. Is it possible to generate a single clock high pulse every n-th clock pulse outside of the loop() function? This is required to trigger the photodiode chip to begin reading out values. Also, how would I buffer the output? Instead of a single value, the chip streams an array of 64 values sequentially for 64 pulses following the trigger pulse.

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yosyp:
Is it possible to generate a single clock high pulse every n-th clock pulse outside of the loop() function?

You can do this with a interrupt triggered by a timer counter.

yosyp:
how would I buffer the output? Instead of a single value, the chip streams an array of 64 values sequentially for 64 pulses following the trigger pulse.

You can store 64 samples in a 64 uint16_t buffer with a DMA.

You will find examples sketches in the DUE forum.