MSP430FR6047: EVM430-FR6047

Laurent van Poppelen69

Part Number: MSP430FR6047

I can see that both directions úpstream & downstream give about the same result(see pictures) I want to know if the signal level is sufficient since the the "Ultrasonic Sensing Design Center" gives me the error:

Algoritm 126 No signal detected ....

Last picture shown previous rx signal enlarged!

Please advise?

regards,

Laurent van Poppelen

2M Engineering Ltd

the Netherlands

over 5 years ago

0 Winter Yu over 5 years ago

TI__Genius 12315 points

Hi Laurent,

Please see the no.7 of section 1.1 FAQ on ultrasonic sensing technology for flow metering with MSP430FR604x MCUs (Rev. A).

0 Laurent van Poppelen69 over 5 years ago in reply to Winter Yu

Expert 1790 points

Hi Winter,

thanks for your reply, I didn't had that document yet. One question though:

text in paragraph 1.1. point 7 "within ±1000 codes for 1-MHz transducers and ±600 codes for 2-MHz transducers."

Question: What does 'codes' mean?

kind regards,

Laurent

0 Winter Yu over 5 years ago in reply to Laurent van Poppelen69

TI__Genius 12315 points

The 'codes' is ADC captured raw value of ups/dns signal.

0 Laurent van Poppelen69 over 5 years ago in reply to Winter Yu

Expert 1790 points

Thanks for your respons. By reading 'stuff' I discovered that the "time from start pulse to start of ADC" was 60 microseconds, which should be(measured with scope) 124 miscroseconds. So I set it to 120. After changing this everything works beautiful. Very good signal and results.

I will now start a second trial using a single transducer(hydrophone) and using Doppler. It should be possible to use this 'downstream', which enables protection against debree and keep the transducer 'clean' due to underpressor(lift), as well as measure the 'flow' and the 'level' at the same time!

kind regards,
Laurent

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