topic Re: Switching between channels on an ADC in Kinetis Microcontrollers

Switching between channels on an ADC

umlengineer — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:31:30 GMT

I am sampling data on channels ADC0_SE4A and ADC0_SE0 and I am able to sample on the channels independently everything works great, but when I sample one channel and then another the second channel always returns incorrect values, usually 65XXX or something like 4. I thought that I had read somewhere that this is caused by an issue with switching between channels, so the fix was to sample only the same channel type. I want to make sure this is the case before I do a board respin. The microcontroller I am using is: MKL17Z64VDA4

Thanks in advance for your help!

Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

diego_charles — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 23:00:26 GMT

Hello, Evan

I'm working on your question, as soon as I have useful information I'll let you know.

Have a great day,
Diego

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Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

umlengineer — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:28:37 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for the help. Is this related to muxing the ADCs at all? I know you have to select A or B, but I am unsure on an unlabeled one.

Thanks again!

Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

diego_charles — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 22:10:05 GMT

Hello Evan,

The muxing of ADC channels have to be done by the user, so maybe you are facing a problem with your channel muxing technique, without taking a look at it to me is difficult to tell where the error is.

Your statement on channels of set A and B is correct, there is a bit called MUXSEL from ADCx_CFG2 register. that allows selecting between alternate sets of ADC channels.

About the unlabeled channels, I´ll refer to Marek Neuzil's answer in the thread

kl25z ADC muxing problem. You must select unlabeled channels with one set (set A or set B).

For example, select:
ADC0_SE0
ADC0_SE4a
ADC0_SE7a
ADC0_SE6a
or
ADC0_SE0
ADC0_SE4b
ADC0_SE7b
ADC0_SE6b

Have a great day,
Diego

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Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

umlengineer — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:11:54 GMT

Hi,

So I think I have the muxing set, and I am still seeing the issue. I am sure I am missing something, I am jsut not sure what.

Thanks for all the help, and please see below.

The documentation says that setting it to 0 selects A:

And when I look at the MuxSel register value I see that it is 0.

My ADC init code is as follows:

uint8_t InitializeADC(spi_transfer_t *xfer)
{
adc16_config_t adc16ConfigStruct;
ADC16_GetDefaultConfig(&adc16ConfigStruct);

#ifdef BOARD_ADC_USE_ALT_VREF
   adc16ConfigStruct.referenceVoltageSource = kADC16_ReferenceVoltageSourceValt;
#endif
   ADC16_Init(ADC16_BASE, &adc16ConfigStruct);
   ADC16_EnableHardwareTrigger(ADC16_BASE, false); // Make sure the software trigger is used.

   #if defined(FSL_FEATURE_ADC16_HAS_CALIBRATION) && FSL_FEATURE_ADC16_HAS_CALIBRATION
       if (kStatus_Success != ADC16_DoAutoCalibration(ADC16_BASE))
       {
           return ADC_AUTO_CAL_FAILURE;
       }
   #endif /* FSL_FEATURE_ADC16_HAS_CALIBRATION */

ADC16_SetChannelMuxMode(ADC16_BASE, kADC16_ChannelMuxA);

return 0;
}

And my ADC read code is:

Helpful Defines:

#define ADC16_BASE ADC0
#define ADC16_CHANNEL_GROUP 0U
#define ADC16_CHANNEL_TOP 4U
#define ADC16_CHANNEL_BOTTOM 0U

Channel 4a:

                adc16ChannelConfigStruct.channelNumber = ADC16_CHANNEL_TOP;
               ADC16_SetChannelConfig(ADC16_BASE, ADC16_CHANNEL_GROUP, &adc16ChannelConfigStruct);
               while (0U == (kADC16_ChannelConversionDoneFlag & ADC16_GetChannelStatusFlags(ADC16_BASE,                         ADC16_CHANNEL_GROUP)))
               {}
               counts = ADC16_GetChannelConversionValue(ADC16_BASE, ADC16_CHANNEL_GROUP);

Channel 0:

            adc16ChannelConfigStruct.channelNumber = ADC16_CHANNEL_BOTTOM;
               ADC16_SetChannelConfig(ADC16_BASE, ADC16_CHANNEL_GROUP, &adc16ChannelConfigStruct);
               while (0U == (kADC16_ChannelConversionDoneFlag & ADC16_GetChannelStatusFlags(ADC16_BASE,                         ADC16_CHANNEL_GROUP)))
               {}
               counts = ADC16_GetChannelConversionValue(ADC16_BASE, ADC16_CHANNEL_GROUP);

Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

diego_charles — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 23:51:48 GMT

Hello, Evan

After taking a look at your code, even though I don´t know the order of your procedures, I could not find something wrong with your configuration parameters. Thanks for showing me your code and the MUXSEL selection bit also I´ve noticed that you even used the function ADC16_SetChannelMuxMode().

I did a test by my side and I was able to sample successfully with both channels ADC_SE0 and ADC_SE4B.

I´ll contact you by email to provide you my main application code for your personal test in order to help you further.

Have a great day,
Diego

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Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

mjbcswitzerland — Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:21:39 GMT

Hi Evan

See appendix D of the following for a discussion of ADC muxing details that sometimes catch people out>
https://www.utasker.com/docs/uTasker/uTaskerADC.pdf

Regards

Mark
[uTasker project developer for Kinetis and i.MX RT]

Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

umlengineer — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:30:20 GMT

Hi,

I have received the code, and will read it and run it Monday.

Thanks for the code and the help!

Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

umlengineer — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 02:34:46 GMT

Thanks for this, I will take a peak tomorrow, 22 pages is not a lot, but it can be at 930pm on a Sunday.

Thanks for the document!

Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

diego_charles — Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:11:04 GMT

Hello, Evan

Thank you, after that please let us know your results!

Have a great day,
Diego

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Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

umlengineer — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:52:16 GMT

Hey,

I think I found the issues. My guess is multiplexing was part of the issue, but the main thing I found, was that I had incorrectly scoped the ADC_config variable. I made an init function that I called at the top, but the ADC_config was scoped to the function. In someways its interesting it worked at all. Once I correctly scoped the variable, put in the muxing code and explicitly set some channel settings to be sure, it looked like everything was working. I will have to stress it a bit but it looks good.

Thanks to you and Mark for your time, it was super helpful.

Re: Switching between channels on an ADC

diego_charles — Tue, 11 Feb 2020 21:20:08 GMT

Hello, umlengineer

I´m glad that you found out about the issue. It's a pleasure to help. Now I suggest you to marc the question as assumed if you don't have further issues.

Best regards Diego.