This library lets you control the addressable RGB LED strips from Pololu Robotics. Forked to add selectable colour order (Support RGB or GRB Leds)

Fork of PololuLedStrip by David Grayson

PololuLedStrip.cpp

Committer:
DavidEGrayson
Date:
2013-03-01
Revision:
17:91fb934a2166
Parent:
16:eaed541b08b0
Child:
19:46d7ab0ba3e7

File content as of revision 17:91fb934a2166:

#include "PololuLedStrip.h"

bool PololuLedStrip::interruptFriendly = false;

// The three timed delays, in units of half-cycles.
uint8_t led_strip_write_delays[3];

void PololuLedStrip::calculateDelays()
{
    int f_mhz = SystemCoreClock / 1000000;   // Clock frequency in MHz.

    if (f_mhz <= 48)
    {
        // The delays below result in 800/1590 ns pulses and a 2500 ns period on the mbed NXP LPC11U24.        
        led_strip_write_delays[0] = 0;
        led_strip_write_delays[1] = 0;
        led_strip_write_delays[2] = 5;
    }
    else
    {
        // Try to generally compute what the delays should be for a ide range of clock frequencies.
        
        // The fudge factors below were experimentally chosen so that we would have
        // ~700/1300 ns pulses and a ~2500 ns period on the mbed NXP LPC1768 (96 MHz Cortex-M3).
        // There seem to be some ~100 ns inconsistencies in the timing depending on which example program is
        // running; the most likely explanation is some kind of flash caching that affects the timing.
        // If you ever change these numbers, it is important to check the the subtractions below
        // will not overflow in the worst case, which is f_mhz = 49.
        led_strip_write_delays[0] = 700*f_mhz/1000 - 23;
        led_strip_write_delays[1] = 600*f_mhz/1000 - 18;
        led_strip_write_delays[2] = 1200*f_mhz/1000 - 33;    
    }
 
    // Convert from units of cycles to units of half-cycles; it makes the assembly faster.   
    for(int i = 0; i < 3; i++)
    {
        led_strip_write_delays[i] <<= 1;
    }
}

PololuLedStrip::PololuLedStrip(PinName pinName)
{
    gpio_init(&gpio, pinName, PIN_OUTPUT);
}

void PololuLedStrip::write(rgb_color * colors, unsigned int count)
{
    calculateDelays();

    __disable_irq();   // Disable interrupts temporarily because we don't want our pulse timing to be messed up.

    while(count--)
    {
        led_strip_write_color(colors, gpio.reg_set, gpio.reg_clr, gpio.mask);
        colors++;
         
        if (interruptFriendly)
        {
            __enable_irq();
            __nop();
            __nop();
            __nop();
            __disable_irq();
        }
    }
        
    __enable_irq();   // Re-enable interrupts now that we are done.
    wait_us(24);      // Hold the line low for 24 microseconds to send the reset signal.
    
    //*(gpio.reg_set) = gpio.mask;
    //*(gpio.reg_clr) = gpio.mask;

}