Multi-Threading

[peterdeco1]

How would you use the ADCIN command to read the value of a pot while simultaneously doing something else?

[Bruce]

Setup a hardware peripheral like capture, hardware PWM, counter, UART, etc and enable
it. They will all run simultaneously in the background while you're sampling the A/D input.

[Security]

Hello. I am using the instant interrupt routine. I also posess a servo motor like ted,
so I wand to start a pulsout every 20ms. I did this in the tmr0-interrupt routine(tmr0
initialized by OPTION_REG = 1) I am using a 20Mhz quarz.

I think: 20 / 4 = 5Mhz. OPTION_REG means prescaler = 1:1. Means 1/(5,000,000) equals 0.2us.

TMR0 = 8Bit => 256 * 0.2us = 51.2us.

So every 51.2us there will be an interrupt. So

20,000 / 51.2 = 390.625 = 391. So as soon as the interrupt will have occurred 391 times 20ms
should have been passed. I wrote

  main:
   '...do xyz
   counter = 0
   END

  IRRoutine:
   IF counter = 391 THEN
    pulsout servo, duration
   ENDIF
   IF counter > 391 THEN
    counter = 0
   ENDIF
   IF counter < 391 THEN
    counter = counter + 1
   ENDIF
   @ INT_RETURN

But the servo is choppy. What is wrong?

[skimask]

How does this work?

  main:
   '...do xyz
   counter = 0
   END

  IRRoutine:
   IF counter => 391 THEN
    pulsout servo, duration
    counter = 0
   ELSE
    counter = counter + 1
   ENDIF
   @ INT_RETURN

[Security]

Well.

But the servo is still choppy.

I found the reason: Option_reg was wrong. I had a prescaler of 2:1.