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Forum Index : Microcontroller and PC projects : ArmmiteH7 V5.07.00b6 - Major performance hike
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KeepIS Guru  Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Yes, I was thinking the same thing, a lot of mine are constants, I either hand code the values into the GUI controls and make it very hard to read and add a lot of comments to try and overcome the readability. Mike. NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315 |
Constants are simply variables that can't be written so add to the count |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
I spent 10 minutes doing a global replace of 81 Constants in the CODE with numerical values. EDIT There were 263 Global variables + 316 Constants, way over the new 512 limit. Now total Global variables (includes Constants) = 485, so under the new 512 limit. The Program now runs perfectly   Speed difference is amazing, and NO !! it has nothing to do with replacing Variables with a value and speeding up variable lookup, these Constants were GUI Menu buttons only. My program has a built in selectable timing test for the critical Digital scale clock and decode procedures, along with total idle loop time when not handling an Automation task. This is for the H7Z1, The H7Z2 at 480 Mhz is even faster but I haven't set that up yet. The averaging is for Scale position value smoothing on the 9" LCD to stop last digit fast hunting. Z1 400 Mhz old firmware Read decode Digital Scale = 6.27ms + Display position on screen = 8.75ms No averaging + Display position on screen = 6.49ms X 6 averaging Total idle Loop Time = 18.42ms No averaging Total idle Loop Time = 13.89ms x 6 averaging Z1 400Mhz Latest firmware Read decode Digital Scale = 1.78ms + Display position on screen = 3.89ms No averaging + Display position on screen = 1.82ms X 6 averaging Total idle Loop Time = 8.28ms No averaging Total idle Loop Time = 4.14ms x 6 averaging EDIT measured H72 @ 480Mhz ___________Old FM V5.5.3________________ Read decode Digital Scale = 5.4ms + Display position on screen = 7.39ms No averaging + Display position on screen = 5.48ms X 6 averaging Total idle Loop Time = 15.49ms No averaging Total idle Loop Time = 11.70ms x 6 averaging _______PRE CMM2 Token V5.07.00b3_______ Read decode Digital Scale = 4.24ms + Display position on screen = 6.43ms No averaging + Display position on screen = 4.63ms X 6 averaging Total idle Loop Time = 13.3ms No averaging Total idle Loop Time = 9.70ms x 6 averaging __________Last FW V5.07.00b7____________ Read decode Digital Scale = 1.42ms + Display position on screen = 3.26ms No averaging + Display position on screen = 1.52ms X 6 averaging Total idle Loop Time = 6.9ms No averaging Total idle Loop Time = 3.45ms x 6 averaging Mike. . Edited 2021-04-27 13:55 by KeepIS NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Just out of curiosity, the following code used to work on all previous versions of MM.Basic I've used on the H7, I think it still worked on the version prior to the latest optimisation. Just tested on the Workshop Unit still running version 5.0511, it works perfectly. if MM.Info(PIN 132)="Unused" Then Const BeepPort=132 SetPin BeepPort,Dout Pin(Beeport)=0 Const C_NoBeep=0 Else Const C_NoBeep=1 Endif Previously when you exited the program and restarted it, the PIN showed "Unused" each time, unless it was set as part of the "OPTION Touch" command. On the latest version FW it runs one time only, then shows "In Use" if the program exits and is run again, stays "In Use" until a reset or power cycle. Was this an unintentional behaviour of the previous versions? either way makes no difference to me as it's an easy workaround. Just that any PIN set in the program will return "In Use" after program exit, and the PIN will remain "In Use" until a reset / restart of the unit. Mike. . Edited 2021-04-27 15:07 by KeepIS NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315 |
Sorry - I patched something out for testing and forgot to re-instate ArmmiteH7V5.07.00b9.zip Excellent news. The old sequential search for variables will really hit performance when you have a lot of variables however cleverly you organise them Edited 2021-04-27 17:11 by matherp |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Thanks, H7V5.07.00b9 appears to be perfect now  Mike. . NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315 |
ArmmiteH7V5.07.00b10.zip Fixes bug in triangle drawing routine that was impacting gui object deletion |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Thanks - GUI is now 100% for me and I'm using just about every GUI in MM.Basic. Mike. NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
OPTION KEYBOARD REPEAT setting is not showing up in the OPTION LIST after setting it, should it? On another positive note, I notice this version of the Firmware has made the H7I2 keyboard really solid compared to the the old firmware, the v1 H7 was fine and still is. Many thanks for that. Mike. . NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315 |
ArmmiteH7V5.07.00b11.zip Includes keyboard repeat rate in option list if non-standard (600,150) |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Thanks now I know if I've set it or not  One last question, I can't remember if there was a reason for not being able to continuously PAGE DOWN (holding the key down) in the Editor? At the moment I have to continuously press the "page down" key as fast as I can, lots of key pressing in a larger program. I kind of remember it being mentioned in the CMM2? Mike. . Edited 2021-04-28 18:18 by KeepIS NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315 |
The problem is that paging down takes time and key repeats can stack up in the keyboard buffer so that when you release the key the paging may continue for some time. The consensus was that this was worse than having to press for each page |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
I see, I used to press it down for a few pages and then release and repeat to overcome that. It's a shame the key repeat rate couldn't have been slowed on page down / up key press, but it is what is and there is only so much you can do, thanks for verifying it for me. Once again, thanks for the fantastic effort with the H7 rewrite, it is now running better than I could have hoped for, just rapped with it. Mike. . Edited 2021-04-28 18:32 by KeepIS NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Problem with OPTION AUTORUN ON / OFF, Ver 5.07.00b11 1: Locks the USB Keyboard most times when issued, either from the USB Keyboard and SOMETIMES the from the Terminal program, sometimes locks coms to the Terminal program (no response to any input). 2: Can break out of coms lock-up with a series of ctrl-C from the Terminal program, cannot break out with the USB KB. Once powered off and on, the Autorun setting is usually set as requested from the terminal pgm, but not always via the USB KB. I waited for a response for over a minute after issuing the Option command. Mike. . Edited 2021-04-29 15:06 by KeepIS NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315 |
ArmmiteH7V5.07.00b12.zip Fixes bug in setting options using the usb keyboard |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Thank you, all good now. Mike. . NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| Tinine Guru Joined: 30/03/2016 Location: United KingdomPosts: 1646 |
Many thanks to you too Mike, for putting the H7 through the wringer. I don't use these features so it's great to have you around. H7 is awesome....Geoff and Pete really ought to be showing this thing to the likes of Siemens |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Apology for going slightly off topic here: Thanks, I could not agree with you more on the amazing effort and dedication that Peter and Geoff have shown and put in over the years, just to give us this fabulous hardware and programming experience. It's been a pleasure to test Peters rewrite / upgrade for the H7 and Geoffs upgrades to the MMBasic core, especially in light of the speed improvements. The figures I posted might not look like much, but when you consider these two speed changes below: Clock and Decode the linear scale pins and Display the position on screen with 6 X averaging for the LCD display. Old Firmware: 5.48ms New Firmware: 1.52ms The "read/decode pin" code is called continuously when the 3HP Cutter and Fence (galley) are moving and preforming an automated cutting process, so that speed difference is huge to this application. The 3rd axis is a manual sled with on screen traffic lights telling you when to move the sled from one end stop sensor to the other, and when you consider the safety (calculating cutter movement limits for a given linear motion), various error checking, interlock monitoring, limit sensor and manual override control scanning, along with speed control and stepper motor ramping and real time display, and all being controlled by the H7 with no external processing of any kind, it's pretty dam impressive what this H7 and MMBasic firmware can do, well it is to me at least and I'm sure you would agree. Mike. . NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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| matherp Guru Joined: 11/12/2012 Location: United KingdomPosts: 10315 |
ArmmiteH7V5.07.00b13.zip Improves the timing of the pause command Hopefully fixes a strange interrupt issue with flac playback (and probably wav and mp3) |
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| KeepIS Guru Joined: 13/10/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1882 |
Thanks for working on an update, it's better, but randomly so. I've posted the results on the thread I initially made for the Pause issue as I don't want to double post and waste thread space here. Mike. Pause thread Update Just loaded the main applications, the PAUSE command is now hunting up to 3 milliseconds on each pass. As a test I divided the Pause delay value by 6 and used 6 concretive pause commands, this keeps the possible highest value of each Pause to 1ms, the variation is now under 10us on each pass. . Edited 2021-06-09 09:31 by KeepIS NANO Inverter: Full download - Only Hex Ver 8.1Ks |
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