Reverse engineering the R6NT power meter

[Daniel Wee]

Okay, we have managed to get the graphics primitives working and written in ARM assembly for speed. This is producing decent image with acceptable speeds.

[Daniel Wee]

Things to do:-

1. Write up the ADC DMA code and oversample at least 4 or 16-times.
- useful info:-
https://stm32duinoforum.com/forum/viewt ... _4229.html
https://www.stm32duino.com/viewtopic.php?t=515
https://www.stm32duino.com/viewtopic.php?t=312
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/612 ... mpled-data

2. Convert readings to scale of meter

3. Calibration of the ADC
- some useful video info here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMqs-al73zA

4. Colour scheme
https://www.colorspire.com/rgb-color-wheel/

[Daniel Wee]

The STM32 comes with a fast 12-bit ADC but we probably need a bit more resolution which we will get by way of over-sampling the ADC 64-times, yielding an increase of 3-bits for a 15-bit approximated resolution.

[Daniel Wee]

The key to getting the DMA interrupt working is to define a function to override the default handler. This has to be declared as an extern for it to work.

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extern "C" void DMA1_Channel1_IRQHandler(void) {
	HAL_NVIC_ClearPendingIRQ(DMA1_Channel1_IRQn);
	HAL_DMA_IRQHandler(&hDMA1_Channel1);
}

There is NO NEED to register the callback handlers other than to include it in the channel definition.

[Daniel Wee]

What we appear to have now is a PEP metering system

Here are some useful articles that discuss the differences between PEP and Pavg.
https://dl.cdn-anritsu.com/en-us/test-m ... 00929A.pdf

There seem to be some schematics where and AD8310 (logarithmic amplifier) is used to give the power reading.
https://www.lazure.net/Electronic-Proje ... atics.html