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This code is based off the existing adc threshold example for the ESP32S2 (https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/tr ... sm/ulp_adc).
I need to store ADC values into an array in the ULP FSM mode so that the chip can undergo multiple deep-sleep cycles whilst still retaining the data to be printed in active mode, I declared an array in assembly as such:
In the entry part of the code (which runs everytime the ULP timer wakes the ULP co-processor), I incremented the sample counter and used it as the offset for adding to the array as such:
However, the array returns 0s, unless the st instruction's 3rd argument (sample_counter) is a constant like 0 or 4. Does anyone know how to effectively store the value of data collected in deep-sleep in an array over multiple deep sleep cycles?

By which value do you increment the sample_counter? I think you need to increment it by 4. The third argument of the ST command is a number of bytes, not words.
See https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... addressing

Note that the 3rd argument to the ST instruction must be a constant. The assembler takes the 'address' of the label 'sample_counter' as the constant value.

Maybe try something like this:

JoeSensoric wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:10 am

By which value do you increment the sample_counter? I think you need to increment it by 4. The third argument of the ST command is a number of bytes, not words.
See https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... addressing

I've set it to increment by 4, but it still doesn't save the value unless I place a constant number like 4, 8, etc. as the 3rd argument in storing into the array

i.e., will store the value into adc_reading[1], changing 4 to 8 will store to adc_reading[2], so on and so forth. It seems to have an issue when this argument is not a constant (sample_counter in my case).

MicroController wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:32 pm

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st r0, r3, sample_counter

Note that the 3rd argument to the ST instruction must be a constant. The assembler takes the 'address' of the label 'sample_counter' as the constant value.

Maybe try something like this:

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    move r3, sample_counter
    ld r3, r3, 0 // load sample counter value into r3
    st r0, r3, adc_reading // store r0 to (adc_reading + r3*4)

Thanks for the reply, and apologies if I'm mistaken in my understanding, but wouldn't the store instruction store the value of r0 into r3 instead of into the adc_reading array?
Having set the sample_counter to increment by 4 per entry in the loop still didn't work for me.

According to https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... the-memory ST does:

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Mem[Rdst + offset / 4]{31:0} = {PC[10:0], 3'b0, Rdst, Rsrc[15:0]}

where 'offset' can be a (signed) 13-bit value - coincidentally just enough to address 8kb of RAM...
So the instruction set supports this. The only thing I'm not sure about is how the assembler will handle a label as offset, i.e., if it uses the label's byte address as needed here, or if it 'helpfully' divides the byte address by 4, which would be wrong for this case.

If the assembler won't bend, you can still calculate the address yourself by adding the sample count value to the address of adc_reading and ST to that address with offset 0..

MicroController wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:32 pm

According to https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... the-memory ST does:

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Mem[Rdst + offset / 4]{31:0} = {PC[10:0], 3'b0, Rdst, Rsrc[15:0]}

where 'offset' can be a (signed) 13-bit value - coincidentally just enough to address 8kb of RAM...
So the instruction set supports this. The only thing I'm not sure about is how the assembler will handle a label as offset, i.e., if it uses the label's byte address as needed here, or if it 'helpfully' divides the byte address by 4, which would be wrong for this case.

If the assembler won't bend, you can still calculate the address yourself by adding the sample count value to the address of adc_reading and ST to that address with offset 0..

Thank you so much for the advice, I've finally got it working now.

Here's what I did, I created a new variable called 'offset', set it to 0 and incremented it after the loop. Using this offset to calculate the address by adding the sample count value, as per https://docs.espressif.com/projects/esp ... addressing.

Glad you got it working And thanks for sharing your solution.