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author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Sat, 03 Jul 2021 19:53:22 +0000 |
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The Calypso chip has a PWM light output called LT/PWL - a digital output pin that can be configured as either LT or PWL. The documentation we got from TI is not exhaustively complete in describing the exact behaviour and output waveforms of these two modes, thus I (Mother Mychaela) did a little bit of lab experimentation to complete the picture. All experimental observations were made with an oscilloscope probe placed on the LT/PWL signal on a FreeCalypso Caramel2 board. LT mode ======= LT functionality of the LT/PWL output is implemented in the ARMIO block, together with GPIO and keypad functions. LT output stays at constant low level (zero light) only when the LIGHT bit in BUZZ_LIGHT_REG (FFFE:480E) is cleared; if the LIGHT bit is set, then a small amount of light will be emitted even if LIGHT_LEVEL_REG is set to 0, contrary to CAL207 document saying "no light" in this case. Light levels 0 through 63 as written into LIGHT_LEVEL_REG really correspond to 1/64 through 64/64 in terms of the actual emitted PWM duty cycles. If the register is written with the maximum light level of 63, then LT output is a continuous high level, with no o'scope-observable PWM activity. If the register is written with any other value, then PWM activity becomes visible on an oscilloscope, with each full cycle period equal to 64 periods of CLK13M, i.e., PWM frequency equals 203.125 kHz, the master 13 MHz clock divided by 64. The shape of this PWM output is totally straightforward: if LIGHT_LEVEL_REG is set to 0, LT output is high for one CLK13M period and low for 63 periods, then repeat; if LIGHT_LEVEL_REG is set to 1, LT output is high for 2 CLK13M periods and low for 62 periods, and so forth, with LIGHT_LEVEL_REG set to 63 resulting in LT being high in all 64 slots, i.e., continuous high output with no visible PWM activity. PWL mode ======== The description of PWL in the CAL207 document is reasonably good; only a few additional notes need to be made: * By the fundamental principles of how all LFSRs work, an LFSR of N bits CANNOT have a period of 2**N, instead the greatest period that can be achieved with careful choice of polynomial is 2**N-1. Calypso PWL block features an 8-bit LFSR, TI's choice of polynomial (hard-wired in the silicon) is a proper one, thus the period is 255. * Two alternate hw implementations are possible: XOR implementation would produce an LFSR with valid values [1,255], whereas XNOR implementation would produce an LFSR with valid values [0,254]. Obviously we have no way to look inside Calypso silicon, but the visible behaviour with different comparator values suggests that the internal LFSR runs in the [1,255] range. There must be some reset logic in the hw that prevents a stuck value of 0. * The visible output on the PWL pin repeats every 255 cycles of CLK32K, and the average light intensity ranges from 0/255 to 254/255 in 1/255 steps. If PWL_LEVEL_REG is set to either 0 or 1, PWL output is continuous low; if the register is set to 2, PWL output is 1/255 (on for just one CLK32K cycle out of 255), and if the register is set to maximum of 255, PWL output is NOT continuous high as CAL207 claims, but instead it is 254/255, i.e., on for 254 out of every 255 CLK32K periods. Deep sleep interaction ====================== LT mode uses CLK13M, thus it is incompatible with deep sleep. PWL uses CLK32K instead, thus deep sleep is perfectly OK with this light on.