Using timers to trigger conversions

As sampling frequency plays such a critical role in determining the quality of the digital representation of the analog signal input, and to avoid aliasing artifacts, it is preferable to use a timer to trigger the conversion rather than to enable continuous conversions as we did in the previous recipe. This recipe, adcTimerISR_c5v0, illustrates this technique. The aim of this recipe is to configure TIM2 _CH2 in output compare mode so that it toggles every 100 ms and then use this timing signal to trigger the ADC.

How to do it…

1. First create a new project called adcTimerISR.uvprojx and use the RTE manager to configure it as we did for the folder adcISR_c5v0 for the Setting up the ADC recipe.

2. Copy timer.c and Custom_ADC.c from the previous recipes and add these to the project. Copy adcISR.c and rename it adcTimerISR.c. Add this to the project.

3. Add #include timer.h to adcTimerISR.c and call TIM2_Initialize() in main(). Check whether the project successfully builds...