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[ts-7000] Baffled by MAX197 A/D converter on TS-7250

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Subject: [ts-7000] Baffled by MAX197 A/D converter on TS-7250
From: "randomyellowbits" <>
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:40:35 -0000
I'm trying to understand the MAX197 A/D converter on my TS-7250, but its 
behavior differs wildly from my expectations.  I hope someone here can tell me 
what I'm missing.

For starters, after writing a control byte to 0x10c00000, I typically have to 
poll 0x10800000 a couple million times before the INT* line (0x80) goes low.  
This doesn't seem consistent with a conversion time on the order of 10 
microseconds.

Secondly, according to my reading of the MAX197 specs, the act of reading the 
result sends INT* high again; but it typically takes a couple million passes 
through the polling loop before it goes high.

If I don't wait for INT* to go high before initiating another conversion, it 
will still be low after I write the control byte, which looks as if the 
conversion is completed, but if I optimistically read the result, the low-order 
byte of the result is identical to the control byte I just wrote.

Being new here, I'm not sure how much code I'm welcome to post, so here are the 
bare essentials:

#define MMAP(x) mmap(0,getpagesize(),PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED,fd,x);

static volatile unsigned char *initiate;
static volatile unsigned short *adresult;
static volatile unsigned char *installed;
static volatile unsigned char *complete;

initiate =  (unsigned char *) MMAP(0x10c00000);
complete = (unsigned char *) MMAP(0x10800000);
installed = (unsigned char *) MMAP(0x22400000);
adresult = (unsigned short *) initiate;

Thanks in advance for informative comments, or even illuminating insults.




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