MSP430F2013: ACLK DIV not working when LPM3???

Steve Wenner

Part Number: MSP430F2013

Hello all...

Using an EZ430-2013 dev board with the following small app code .....

I am finding that if I port out the ACLK (the code below has this line removed P1SEL |= BIT0; as I was just using the LED on the dev board) and remove LPM3_bits below the divisor works just fine but when I put LPM3_bits back into the code the ACLK (which is assigned the VLO clk) never changes its' frequency....Can someone tell me why?

int main(void)
{
    BCSCTL1 |= DIVA_3;                        // ACLK/2
    BCSCTL3 |= LFXT1S_2;                      // ACLK = VLO
    WDTCTL = WDT_ADLY_1000;                   // Interval timer
    IE1 |= WDTIE;                             // Enable WDT interrupt

    P1DIR |= 0x01;                            // Set P1.0 to output direction

    __bis_SR_register(LPM3_bits + GIE);       // Enter LPM3 w/interrupt
}

#pragma vector=WDT_VECTOR
__interrupt void watchdog_timer(void)
{
    P1OUT ^= 0x01;                            // Toggle P1.0 using exclusive-OR
}

over 4 years ago

0 Evan Lew over 4 years ago

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Hi Steve,

Please help me understand what you mean by:

Steve Wenner said:
ACLK (which is assigned the VLO clk) never changes its' frequency

Also, if I understand correctly you are trying to run the watchdog from ACLK. However, you must set WDTCTL.WDTSSEL = 1 to make this happen. This may explain why entering LPM3 is affecting the behavior: LPM3 disables SMCLK which is currently clocking the watchdog.

Regards,

Evan

0 Steve Wenner over 4 years ago in reply to Evan Lew

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Hi Evan...

Referring to the code above....BCSCTL3 assignment sets the ACLK output to VLO (see userguide for this). the WDTSSEL gets set via macro WDT_ADLY_1000 (supplied by TI in their msp430 files. i am not using SMCLK here using ACLK. Basically I ported ACLK out and it is working as expected when I get rid of LPM3 (meaning divisor BCSCTL1 setting works)....Add LPM3 into the mix and it no longer works)

Thanks

0 Evan Lew over 4 years ago in reply to Steve Wenner

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Steve,

Thanks for the info. I think that the macro you are using is probably setting WDTCTL.WDTSSEL = 0 based on what I've seen in the msp header files I've looked through. Please confirm in your environment.

#define WDT_ADLY_1000 (WDTPW+WDTTMSEL+WDTCNTCL+WDTIS2+WDTSSEL0)

Even though you aren't using SMCLK for anything else I think the watchdog is defaulting to SMCLK as the clock source (see image below). As I noted above, SMCLK isn't available in LPM3.

Please try setting WDTCTL.WDTSSEL = 1 and see if it changes the behavior.

Regards,

Evan

0 Steve Wenner over 4 years ago in reply to Evan Lew

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Evan....

The macro I am calling is:

/* WDT is clocked by fACLK (assumed 32KHz) */
#define WDT_ADLY_1000       (WDTPW+WDTTMSEL+WDTCNTCL+WDTSSEL)                 /* 1000ms  " */

Where it calls WDTSSEL:

#define WDTSSEL                (0x0004)

BUT I did uncover something while doing that little experiment.....When I download and hit run from the debugger it works as if the divisor does not exist HOWEVER if I pause the debugger then run again it seems to work fine....

Clearly the registers are ok but something with the debugger ....

Thanks for the help

Steve

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