Reply by Roelof Oelofsen May 24, 20022002-05-24
Good morning,

Motorola had a presentation here a month ago and this is the link that
I have received from them:
The helpline address is
I have not tried this link myself yet, so I do not know how valid the
link is. I do not know if some of the letters should be capital letters
as well.

To come back to the rest of your reply: How can I use the PWM interrupt
to read the ADC on every 4th interrupt? Can I do this by using the sync
pulse?

The learning curve on the chip is quite long, especially if you are
fairly new to DSP as well. (I am used to 8-bit PIC's). On the other
hand, to optimize a DSP is no childs play either, so you can expect the
learning curve. The purpose of the SDK (my opinion and replies from this
newsgroup) is to get you up and started relatively quickly and then
later worry about the nitty-gritty stuff like optimization, memory
allignment, etc. You do not have to be a DSP boffin as well. Take for
example the DTMF detection library. I do not have to worry about FFT's
and that stuff at this stage to detect the tones, I can just use the
DTMF_det library. I have come across a few problems lately though, but
generally I would still use the SDK later on as I get used to the chip.
I will, however, combine C and/or assembly and/or the SDK. (See the
periphMemWrite, periphMemRead, etc. commands in the SDK for direct
register access)

Regards
Roelof Oelofsen

>>> "schmighty80222" <> 05/24/02 02:43AM >>>
Hi Roelof,

I didn't realize that Motorola had a support site. Could you list its
link.

I have the EVM56807 also. As far as your PWM to ADC troubles, at
first thought, maybe you can use the PWM interrupt to read the ADC on
every 4th interrupt.

There's sort of a learning curve on this chip, isn't there? I'm
wondering what the advantage is to using the SDK for some of the
basic stuff like led workings, pwm use, etc. I'm in the current
mindset to try and activate everything in C or assembly. Can anyone
tell me why I should use the SDK for PWM for example verses
programming it up in C or assembly (not counting portablity to the
other family members)? I will appreciate the SDK when I need the
vector/matrix functions.

Schmighty

PS: Maybe the usual responders are on vacation?



Reply by Roelof Oelofsen May 23, 20022002-05-23
Where are all the DSP and Motorola experts?

"schmighty" , I would like to help you, but as you can see, I have a
lot of questions myself! Did you go to the Motorola support site and
post your question there as well?

Kind Regards
Roelof Oelofsen
Telkom Development Laboratories
Telkom SA

>>> "schmighty80222" <> 05/22/02 08:22PM >>>




Reply by schmighty80222 May 22, 20022002-05-22
Hi there,

My interrupts work in ExRam mode but are undefined in Flash mode. Any
suggestions?

schmighty