Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Now we Transmit Packets ... From RAKwireless ... To @PINE64

lupyuen.github.io/articles/wis

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Let's use this sample app to transmit Packets

github.com/RAKWireless/WisBloc

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Receiving Packets on gets tricky ... Because SX1276 triggers a GPIO Interrupt when a packet is received ... And the Interrupt Handler needs to forward the packet to the Application Task 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

To receive Packets on : We listen for GPIO Interrupts on SX1276 Pins DIO0 to DIO3 (4 pins) ... Yep we're nearly out of GPIO Pins 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Wiring looks too sus among us 🤔 ... @PINE64 connected to Hope RF96 ... Including DIO0 to DIO3

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Simple fix for a PlatformIO build error in 's LoRaP2P_TX sample ... My first Pull Request for WisBlock!

github.com/RAKWireless/WisBloc

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

How we configure a GPIO Interrupt on ... For receiving Packets

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

GPIO Interrupt ... According to the BL602 Reference Manual 🤔

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_docs

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

GPIO Interrupts: Should we use Sync or Async Interrupts for ? 🤔 ... BL602 IoT SDK uses Async Interrupts to handle GPIO Buttons ... Let's do the same for LoRa

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_iot_

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Maybe High Level Trigger Interrupt = High Priority Interrupt = Sync Interrupt? 🤔 ... Lemme check the original Chinese Reference Manual

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_docs

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

My bad ... High Level Trigger Interrupt = 高电平触发中断 = Trigger Interrupt on Logic High ... Nothing to do with priority 🤔

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_docs

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Let's test whether SX1276 triggers GPIO Interrupts correctly on ... When it receives a LoRa Packet ... The Interrupt Counters shall tell us

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Flashed the Transmitter to @RAKwireless ... This Arduino program transmits "Hello" in a LoRa Packet every 5 seconds

github.com/lupyuen/wisblock-lo

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Transmitter ... Sniffed by Airspy R2 SDR ... Watch the distinctive LoRa Chirp (red spike)

youtu.be/USqStub3KC0

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

When transmits Packets ... Our LoRa Receiver hangs! ... Let's find out why 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Maybe is stuck forever handling Packet Received Interrupts? 🤔 ... Let's suppress GPIO Interrupts after handling the first 5 interrupts

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

And still hangs when transmits Packets ... Chaos Magic 🤔

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Something spooky about GPIO Interrupts 🤔 ... Let's disconnect SX1276 pins DIO1 to DIO3 ... And connect DIO0 to my fav Blue LED (GPIO 11)

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Blue LED switches off ... When transmits a Packet ... So DIO0 Packet Received works! Why does the GPIO Interrupt hang? 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

GPIO Interrupt triggered OK when Packet received yay! ... But why does it work now? 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

GPIO Interrupts hanging could be due to the way we handle multiple GPIO Interrupts ... Let's revisit this when we can trigger multiple GPIO Interrupts from SX1276

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Now that can handle Packet Received Interrupt ... Let's defer the LoRa Packet Processing from the Interrupt Handler to the Application Task ... How shall we do this in FreeRTOS? 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Maybe can help ! ... The NimBLE Porting Layer defines Multitasking Functions for ... Let's call them to handle Interrupts

lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rus

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

NimBLE Porting Layer hasn't been ported ... To ? 🤔 ... Let's fix this for

github.com/apache/mynewt-nimbl

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Fortunately has a function to check whether we're in a Interrupt Handler ... "xPortIsInsideInterrupt"

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

NimBLE Porting Layer builds OK on yay! ... Let's call these Event Queue functions to process our received Packets

lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rus

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Multitasking made easier with NimBLE Porting Library ... Here's how we create an Event Queue ... And add an Event to the queue

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Now we handle Events from the Event Queue ... Multitasking made easier with NimBLE Porting Library

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

NimBLE Porting Library works great on ... Multitasking made easier!

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Shall we teach Multitasking with NimBLE Porting Layer? 1️⃣ Looks easier than FreeRTOS 2️⃣ It's portable to FreeRTOS, Mynewt, NuttX and RIOT OS 🤔

lupyuen.github.io/pinetime-rus

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Let's use the Event Queue to forward the Packet Received Interrupt ... From Interrupt Handler ... To the Application Task

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Packet goes from Transmitter ... To SX1276 Interrupt Handler ... To Task yay! Now we read the received LoRa Packet from SX1276 over SPI

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Aha! hits a Exception ... When processing the received Packet! Let's follow these steps to troubleshoot...

lupyuen.github.io/articles/i2c

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Our Build, Flash and Run Firmware script generates the Disassembly ... Let's track down the address of the RISC-V Exception

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Oops the Program Counter for our Exception is null ... So there must be a missing Callback Function somewhere in our Firmware 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Exception happened because we passed a pointer to a stack object ... Which gets used by the Interrupt Handler 😲 ... This works OK in the original Mynewt code, but not for BL602

gist.github.com/lupyuen/1539f9

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For we fix this exception by copying the object ... Instead of storing a pointer to the object

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

now displays the Packet received from yay!

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Mystery GPIO Function ... What does it do? Will it fix our problem with triggering multiple GPIO Interrupts? 🤔

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_iot_

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Reference Manual mentions "GPIO_INT_CLR" but the address is undefined in the doc ... Methinks a chunk of addresses are missing from the doc 🤔

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_docs

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Searching GitHub for "GPIO_INT_CLR" shows ultraembedded RISC-V SoC ... Coincidence? 🤔

github.com/search?l=Markdown&q

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Ah my folly ways ... Multiple GPIO Interrupts can't be registered like this ... Lemme fix this 🪠

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

supports only one Interrupt Handler for all GPIO Pins ... Let's iterate thru the SX1276 Interrupts and handle them

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

now detects Multiple GPIO Interrupts ... Triggered by SX1276 yay!

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Let's handle GPIO Interrupts the smarter way ... By iterating thru the Interrupt Events created with the NimBLE Porting Layer

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Reconnected @PINE64 ... To SX1276 pins DIO0 to DIO3 ... For testing our GPIO interrupt handler

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Enabled GPIO Interrupt Handler for SX1276 ... And BL602 hits a Exception ... At an invalid Program Address 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Let's disable Channel Activity Detection for now ... receives first LoRa Packet ... But not the second packet 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Never clear the GPIO Interrupt Status! 🚧 ... This suppresses subsequent GPIO Interrupts 😲 ... We can now receive multiple Packets yay!

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Can show the Stack Trace for this Exception? ... Let's find out 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Stack Trace Hieroglyphics ... Can we use this to dump the Stack Trace for our Exception? 🤔

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_iot_

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Here's the Exception Handler ... Seems capable of showing the Stack Trace 🤔

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_iot_

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

shows Stack Trace when CONFIG_ENABLE_FP=1 ... But the addresses don't make sense ... They belong to the code that's dumping the Stack Trace 🤔

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Oops needs us to "make clean ; make" to fix up the Stack Frame Pointers ... Now BL602 Stack Trace points to the "ebreak" instruction ... Which belongs to the Exception Handler 🙄

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Deciphering the Stack Trace Hieroglyphics ... There must be a way to get the Stack Frame before our Exception 🤔

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_iot_

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

Stack Trace always shows the Current Stack ... Let's show the stack before hitting the Exception

github.com/bouffalolab/bl_iot_

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@lupyuen
Lovely. Wish You much success. Interesting project and great platform. Whats the planned use for these little animals?

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

@PawelK Thanks :-) I'm planning to use this for IoT Education ... Teaching folks how to create a RISC-V LoRa Sensor that's battery powered...

lupyuen.github.io/articles/lor

lupyuen.github.io/articles/wis

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@lupyuen
Nice nice. We coud use this in poland such a course. 5g is planned/starting rollout.

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@lupyuen
Nice project. A hobby or commercial?

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@lupyuen
If platforms are ready i might try to promote your platform here. It sounds interesting.

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@lupyuen
Need to learn more on lora though for final decision.

Also in your example each process has separate stack while globals are in shared adress space. Interesting os. Feels similar to what i was doing for ericsson.

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@lupyuen
Ahhh now i see. Lemme browse through their source. Old code is borked. Youre assigning to struct type a pointer type instead of RadioEvents = *events.

How come compiler let it compile...

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Lup Yuen Lee 李立源

@PawelK I changed my version to use struct instead of pointer to struct:

github.com/lupyuen/bl_iot_sdk/

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@lupyuen
If we got code:
Struct RadioEvents_t a.
Fun(struct RadioEvents_t* b)
{
a=b;
}

Compiler should give error.

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@PawelK The original code is this:

static RadioEvents_t *RadioEvents;

See gist.github.com/lupyuen/1539f9

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@lupyuen
Ahh ah. Ok its porting between oses and separate adress spacrs problem it seems. Another concern may be if struct shoukdnt be volatile but i dont know enough sbout code to tell.

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@lupyuen
You know when volatie is useful for sure, right?

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@lupyuen
Ahhhh ok.

Yea segment sharing/divide between irq and irq setup.

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@lupyuen
Yes your compiler is broken. How come can you struct = pointer without dereference? Hehe.

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