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AlVa_264671
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Hi  there

I always used ADC Delta sigma. This is my firs time  with Sar ADC.

I have attached a simple project  where the  minus Sar's input is  hooked up to  Vref/2

From a pot I change the + input volatge between  Vssa and Vdda.

I don't know what I am missing but I expect get negative values when V+ - V-   is negative  and positive values when the diference is positive.

I just got values from  0 couts  to 4095 counts  when the positive input  is from 0v to 3.3v ,in this case.

Please see attached project.

Thank you in advance

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Vasanth
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Hi Alejandro,

The problem with your code is that ADC_SAR_1_SAR_WRK0_PTR register is not sign extended; the result is always unsigned. You can use ADC_SAR_1_GetResult16(); API inside the ISR which will return a signed result .

Best Regards,

VRS

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Vasanth
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Hi Alejandro,

The problem with your code is that ADC_SAR_1_SAR_WRK0_PTR register is not sign extended; the result is always unsigned. You can use ADC_SAR_1_GetResult16(); API inside the ISR which will return a signed result .

Best Regards,

VRS

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Hi vsrs

Thank you for your answer.

I missed the  int16 ADC_GetResult16(void) API side effect.

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Hi,

The result format from the SAR block is unsigned. Firmware manipulation is required to get it in 2's complement format.

If you look into the component API function- ADC_SAR_1_GetResult16(), it reads the result from a register pointed by ADC_SAR_1_SAR_WRK_PTR and subtracts (ADC_SAR_1_shift) from the result. This is to get the 2's complement form.

In your code, you can either subtract 0x800 from the result or use the component API function.

-Rajiv

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Hi rajiv

You help me again

I missed the  int16 ADC_GetResult16(void) API side effect.

Up today I did like you suggested :

In your code, you can either subtract 0x800 from the result or use the component API function.

Thank you again.

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