Proper way to route 2400bps serial data stream

[CodeWarrior1241]

microcontroller linear time code

Hi all,

I wanted to get some guidance on on a task I'm trying to complete with the LM3S9B92 MCU... Basically, I have a serial 80-bit data stream frame that is sent to the micro at 30Hz, i.e. 2400bps total. I need to take each frame, do some minimal processing, and send it out over USB to a PC.

My question is this - what's the best way to get the frame into the LM3S9B92? I could bit-bang it into the pin I suppose, but I was wondering if there's a better way to do it. Are there architectural/peripheral refinements that could help me out which I could use for this?

The serial data I'm dealing with is a linear time code that's bi-phased mark modulated - it's an NRZ encoding scheme, so there's no separate clock signal. That's why SPI didn't seem like a likely peripheral to use... The byte stream contains a sequence of 13 bits that are used for synchronization, but these seemed different from the start/stop bits I have seen for UART transmissions... This is why I wasn't sure what peripheral (if at all) was best.

Thanks for everyone's help!

 

[Kurenai_ryu]

80-bit asynchronous with a 13 bits synch??? dude! unless you setup an ASIC or FPGA or something! i don't think a normal MCU will do the job right out-of-the-box... also bit-banging isn't as hard if you set up a timer and an edge interrupt...

Hope if you make it, could you post your results? It could be very interesting...

 

[CodeWarrior1241]

Is it really that computationally difficult? If I have an 80MHz ARM microcontroller with most instructions taking 2 cycles (~25ns), and a 2400 bps stream, is it that hard to identify a 13-bit pattern? The width of each data bit is ~400us.

I had hoped that I could avoid using programmable hardware for this for cost reasons.

Kurenai_ryu, using an edge interrupt/timer is along the lines of what I was thinking as well. Do the numbers I quote make this project seem completely unreasonable?

 

[Kurenai_ryu]

I mean that there is no Internal peripheral on any MCU I know which can manage a 80 bit asyncronous data stream...

of course you could use this two peripheral (timer and edge interrupt) to recieve (or send) the 80 bit data stream.. it's easy, but it's a software approach... not hardware that I tought you were looking... maybe If you post a graph with the 80 bit stream (including synch bits) some one (including me) could give a clearer idea...