ARM CodeSourcery's GNU Toolchain Info

Saw this nice article about CodeSourcery's GNU Toolchain, used in ARM's, and thought it would be a good reference article to others !

http://dorkbotpdx.org/blog/paul/gnu_toolchain_crosscompile_challenges

Dub siren Midi Controller ( Interruptor VST) Schematic with ATMega 2560

Built and designed to interact with the VST dub siren FX from The Interruptor @ his forum .

The trigger is a button connected to D22 on arduino The rest are 12 pots, that will control the Pitch, Level and Freq of both LFO's, Vol, Time, Feedback,Hp,Lp and noise !

The LCD is connected as usual...

Schematic in PDF, NOT IN BREADBOARD FORMAT

Wicked video !!

Some rarities ( Maths Books) i found in charity shop for my collection...

Some rarities i found in charity shop for my collection...

Digital Electronics: Overflow, Overflow Detection and Underflow

This video is part of materials on modules taught by Derek Molloy

Sinewave Generator with the DAC of the ARM SAM3X -The Code

   /* Discrete Computational Methods */

    /* Generating/Sample discrete sinusoid */ 
           
/* Direct digital synthesis is a common technique for generating 
waveforms digitally. The principles of the technique are simple and 
widely applicable. You can build a DDS oscillator in hardware or in 
software.
A DDS oscillator is sometimes also known as a Numerically-Controlled 
Oscillator (NCO). Usually we use a Circular buffer or FIFO.
The NCO function contains a sine look-up tables (LUTs) that perform 
the following functions:
sin(n) = sin(2πn/N)
where:
n = Address input to the LUT
N = Number of samples in the LUT
sin(n) = Amplitude of sine wave at (2πn/N)

Incrementing n from 0 to N causes the LUT to output one complete 
cycle of amplitude values for the sine  function. The value 2πn/N 
represents a fractional phase angle between 0 and 2π. The time (t) 
required to increment n from 0 to N is the period of the sine  
waveforms produced by the NCO function.

The LUT address is incremented once each system clock cycle by an 
amount equal to the phase input. The phase angle data is accumulated 
and stored in the phase accumulator register. The output of the 
phase accumulator register is used to address the LUTs.
The frequency (f) of the system clock (fCLK) is fixed. Therefore, 
the frequency of the sine waves is:
f = 1/t = fCLK × phase/2π. */
            /*  Table Lookup */
 /*The table look-up method precomputes the unique samples of every 
 output sinusoid at the start of the simulation, and recalls the 
 samples from memory as needed. Because a table of finite length 
 can only be constructedif all output sequences repeat, the method 
 requires that the period ofevery sinusoid in the output be evenly 
 divisible by the sample period. That is, 1/(fiTs) = ki must be 
 an integer value for every channel i = 1, 2, ..., N. 
 The table that is constructed for each channel contains ki elements.
 For long output sequences, the table look-up method requires 
 far fewer floating-point operations than any of the other methods, 
 but may demand considerably more memory, especially for high 
 sample rates (long tables). This is the recommended method 
 for models that are intended to emulate or generate code for DSP 
 hardware, and that therefore need to be optimized for execution speed.*/
       /*  Differential */  
 /* The differential method uses an incremental (differential) algorithm 
rather than one based on absolute time.
This mode offers reduced computational load, but is subject to drift 
over time due to cumulative quantization error.
Because the method is not contingent on an absolute time value, 
there is no danger of discontinuity during extended operations (when 
an absolute time variable might overflow). */
        /* Trigonometric Function */    
 /*  If the period of every sinusoid in the output is evenly divisible 
 by the sample  period, meaning that
1/(fiTs) = ki is an integer for every output yi, then the sinusoidal 
output in the ith channel is a repeating sequence with a period of  
ki samples. At each sample time, the block evaluates the sine function 
at the appropriate time value within the first cycle of the sinusoid. 
By constraining trigonometric evaluations to the first cycle of each 
sinusoid, the block avoids the imprecision of computing the sine of 
very large numbers, and eliminates the possibility of discontinuity 
during extended operations (when an absolute time variable might 
overflow). This method therefore avoids the memory demands of the table
look-up method at the expense of many more floating-point operations. */
               /*  - THE CODE -  */
/*Used the proverbial timer interrupt example code, and 
the old techniques on Direct digital synthesis available at 
places like
http://interface.khm.de/index.php/lab/experiments/arduino-dds-sinewave-generator/
or 
http://rcarduino.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/arduino-due-dds-part-1-sinewaves-and.html
*/

 
// variables accessed by the interrupt 
volatile byte adc;
volatile byte out_sign;
volatile boolean l;
 
  float pi = 3.141592;
  float w ;    // ψ
  float yi ;
  float phase;
  int D = 1024;
  byte sign_samp;
  byte sin_data[1024];  // sine LUT Array 
  int icounter;
  int counter2;
  int testPin = 13;      // debugging pin digital pin 13
  int testPin2 = 12;      // debugging pin digital pin 12 
  int testPin3 = 11;      // debugging pin digital pin 11
  int testPin4 = 10;      // debugging pin digital pin 11
  float a;
  float b;

void setup()
    { 
      fill_sinewave();       // load memory with sine table
      pinMode(testPin,OUTPUT);
      pinMode(testPin2,OUTPUT);
      pinMode(testPin3,OUTPUT);
      pinMode(testPin4,OUTPUT);
      startTimer(TC1, 0, TC3_IRQn, 0x8000); //TC1 channel 0, the IRQ 
      // for that channel and the desired frequency - 32768 -see somewhere 
      // else for the reason why
      analogWrite(DAC0,0);  //Duane B// this is a cheat - enable the DAC
    }

void loop()
    {
      counter2++;           // 
      if (counter2 >= 0x400)
        {   
          digitalWrite(13, l = !l); // toggle debugging pin on pin 13   
          counter2=0;
          fill_sinewave();
        }
      adc=analogRead (0);  // get the adc 
      b=analogRead(1);     // get the adc 2
         if(b<=511)
          {  
            b=b*pi/128;
          }
      else if (b>=512)
          { 
            b=b/16;
          }
      if (adc<=249)
          {
            a=2;
          }
      if (adc>=250 && adc<=511)
          {
          a=4;
          }
      if (adc>=512 && adc<=750)
          {
            a=6;
          }
      if (adc>=851 && adc<=1024)
          {
            a=8;
          }          
      digitalWrite(12, l = !l);     // toggle debugging pin on pin 12 
    }
    /*
* Here is the table of parameters: *
  ISR/IRQ TC      Channel Due   pins
  TC0 TC0 0 2,      13
  TC1 TC0 1 60,     61
  TC2 TC0 2 58
  TC3 TC1 0 none  <- this line in the example above
  TC4 TC1 1 none
  TC5 TC1 2 none
  TC6 TC2 0 4, 5
  TC7 TC2 1 3, 10
  TC8 TC2 2 11, 12
*/

void startTimer(Tc *tc, uint32_t channel, IRQn_Type irq, uint32_t frequency) {
  pmc_set_writeprotect(false);
  pmc_enable_periph_clk((uint32_t)irq);
  TC_Configure(tc, channel, TC_CMR_WAVE | TC_CMR_WAVSEL_UP_RC | TC_CMR_TCCLKS_TIMER_CLOCK1);
  uint32_t rc = VARIANT_MCK/8/frequency; //8 because we selected TIMER_CLOCK1 above
  TC_SetRA(tc, channel, rc/2); //50% high, 50% low
  TC_SetRC(tc, channel, rc);
  TC_Start(tc, channel);
  tc->TC_CHANNEL[channel].TC_IER=TC_IER_CPCS;
  tc->TC_CHANNEL[channel].TC_IDR=~TC_IER_CPCS;
  NVIC_EnableIRQ(irq);
}
// TC1 ch 0  
void TC3_Handler()
    {
      digitalWrite(10, l = !l);    // toggle debugging pin on pin 10 
      TC_GetStatus(TC1, 0);
      icounter++;                  // increment index
      //icounter=icounter + b;         // Variable frequency with potentiometer
      icounter = icounter & 0x3ff;         // limit index 0..1023
      if( icounter==0x400)
        {
          icounter=0;
        }
      out_sign=sin_data[icounter]; 
      dacc_write_conversion_data(DACC_INTERFACE, out_sign);  
    }
   
       /*  Plotting Complex Sinusoids as Circular Motion  */
             /*             */
/* Euler's relation graphically as it applies to sinusoids. A point 
traveling with uniform velocity around a circle with radius 1 may 
be represented by  */ 
       /* eiφ = cos(φ) + i*sin(φ) */
            /*   eψt=eψft    */
/* in the complex plane, where: 
  t is time and  is the number of revolutions per second.           
  e is Euler's number, the base of natural logarithms,
  i is the imaginary unit, which satisfies i2 = −1, and
  π is pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound
(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_frequency
(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sine_wave
(4) https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/Welcome.html
(5) http://lionel.cordesses.free.fr/gpages/DDS1.pdf
*/
void fill_sinewave()
    {
      digitalWrite(11, l = !l);  // toggle debugging pin on pin 11 
      w= a*pi;
      w= w/512;  // sine LUT Array D= ox8000(fs)@32Hz. at  use 512 

   //The shape of the stored waveform is 64Hz

  // arbitrary, and can be a sinusoid, a square, sawtooth, etc
      // fill the 1024 byte circular ring buffer array
      for (D = 0; D <= 0x3ff; D++)
        {
          yi= 0x7f*sin(phase);   // try yi= 0x7f*sin(phase)-(2*cos(phase)); 
//  increase to 3 ? yi= A*sin(phase)- cos(phase)- cos(phase)- cos(phase);
          phase=phase+w;         // 0 to 2xpi - 1/1024 increments
          sign_samp=0x7f+yi;     // dc offset
          sign_samp+= b;         // Add adc value; Keep it at zero for pure sine
          sin_data[D]=sign_samp; // write value into array
      /*
      */      
        }
      digitalWrite(11, l = !l);  // toggle debugging pin on pin 11 
    }










Chec my related post with a slightly refined code template 


http://dubworks.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/simple-sine-wave-generator-template-in-c.html


http://dubworks.blogspot.co.uk/p/blog-page.html

Shive Wave Machine : Similiarities of Wave Behavior

In the past i remember this being the best explanation to some of the basics to understand sound waves better !!

"Shive's role at Bell Labs was more than just a great lecturer: he worked on early transistor technology, inventing the phototransistor in 1950, and the machine he uses in the film is his invention, now called the Shive Wave Machine in college classrooms.

Dr. J.N. Shive of Bell Labs demonstrates and discusses the following aspects of wave behavior:

Reflection of waves from free and clamped ends
Superposition
Standing waves and resonance
Energy loss by impedance mismatching
Reduction of energy loss by quarter-wave and tapered-section transformers
Original audience: college students

Produced at Bell Labs

Footage courtesy of AT&T Archives and History Center, Warren, NJ "