An attempt to provide a Real Time Clock for the nRF51-DK. This code provides rtc.time and rtc.set_time replacements for the similarly named C standard methods (unimplemented for nRF51-DK last I checked). Not very well tested, but it seems to work for simple applications.
Dependents: nRF51_rtc_example LoRa_PIR BLE_Lightning_sensor BLE_AlarmWatch ... more
nrf51_rtc.cpp
- Committer:
- fxschumacher
- Date:
- 2015-02-08
- Revision:
- 0:3677a016109b
File content as of revision 0:3677a016109b:
#include "nrf51_rtc.h" int nrf51_rtc::set_time(time_t rawtime) { // set the current time from a parameter time_base = rawtime; rtc_previous = int (NRF_RTC1->COUNTER) / ticks_per_second; return 0; } time_t nrf51_rtc::time() { // get the current time... and update the underlying variables for tracking time // ...this routine must be called regularly, before the 24b RTC register can wrap around: // t < size of register / (LFCLK_FREQUENCY / (NRF_RTC1->PRESCALER + 1)) // size of register = 2^24 ticks // LFCLK_FREQUENCY = 2^15 cycles/sec // NRF_RTC1->PRESCALER = 0 -- as (currently) set by mbed library! // = (2^24)/(2^15/1) = 2^9 seconds = 512 seconds, ~ 8.5 minutes unsigned int rtc_now = (NRF_RTC1->COUNTER) / ticks_per_second; unsigned int delta_seconds = ((rtc_now + counter_size_in_seconds) - rtc_previous) % counter_size_in_seconds; time_base = time_base + (time_t) delta_seconds; rtc_previous = rtc_now; return time_base; } void nrf51_rtc::update_rtc() { // for use as interrupt routine, same as "time" but doesn't return a value (as req'd for interrupt) // ...but this is useless since the compiler seems to be unable to correctly attach a member function to the ticker interrupt // ...the exact same interrupt routine attached to a ticker works fine when declared outside the method nrf51_rtc::time(); } nrf51_rtc::nrf51_rtc() { rtc_previous=0; time_base=0; #define LFCLK_FREQUENCY 0x8000 #define RTC_COUNTER_SIZE 0x1000000 ticks_per_second = LFCLK_FREQUENCY / (NRF_RTC1->PRESCALER + 1); counter_size_in_seconds = RTC_COUNTER_SIZE / ticks_per_second; // Ticker inside the method doesn't work: the interrupt attachment to the ticker messes up the world (code goes to the weeds) // ... not needed if "rtc.time()" is called frequently enough (once per 512 seconds) // ... this scheme (ticker+interrupt routine to update rtc) works correctly when implemented at the next level up //Ticker rtc_ticker; //#define RTC_UPDATE 1 //rtc_ticker.attach(this,&nrf51_rtc::update_rtc, RTC_UPDATE); // update the time regularly (must be < duration of 24b timer) }