I am writing to see if someone can give me a hand with the ADC on my LPC4337
I’m doing a practice in which I have to sample two signals at 200Hz.
I need to sample at least 500 points for each cycle.
Since I know that the LPC4337 ADC have a sampling frequency of 400 KHz I assumed that is possible.
However the maximum speed that achievement, sampling with DMA, ADC0 Channel 2 and ADC1 channel 2, is 33,8kHz. which represents approximately 169 samples per cycle.
(To reach that number, (33,8KHz) I turn on and turn off a exit pin, when finished reading the 2 ADC and I measure it with an oscilloscope)
If I only activated one channel and one ADC, the actual sample frequency is 79.9 KHz. (Which also remains poorly)
all those test was with BURST Mode disabled. If I configurate the ADC in interruption mode instead of DMA, it is slower yet.
Finally I tryed enabling Burst Mode, and remove the DMA and interrupts.
I made a loop and I kept waiting for the data inside a while (1), Channel 2 and Channel 3 ADC0.
/* Waiting for A/D conversion complete */
while (Chip_ADC_ReadStatus(LPC_ADC0, ADC_CH_SEN, ADC_DR_DONE_STAT) != SET) {}
/* Read ADC value */
Chip_ADC_ReadValue(LPC_ADC0, ADC_CH_SEN, &dataADC0);
Now the frequency is 100KHz approx. almost exactly 500 points per cycle . But as I start to make something, this consume cycles and the frecuency falls, obviously I do not get the amount of points I need.
The ADC is configured with a 400KHz sampling frequency and with 10-bit resolution.
the test were without interfering with the reading of the ADC.
Questions:
What is the best and fastest way to read the two signals with the ADC?
Is it possible to sample faster than 100KHz?
Is this a limitation?
Are there some extra settings I should do?
I also need to read the two signals simultaneously.
Is this possible?
if I use the Channel 2 on ADC0 and the channel 2 on ADC1,
Are the readings simultaneous ? or sampled first one and then the other.
Any help you can give me I would appreciate it. Sorry for my english.
Thank you so much.
Natalia