Electronic – STM32 ADC conversion using HAL

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I am trying to learn how to use "new" HAL library from stm32.
When I try to do simple ADC conversion it works just one time, but then it stops converting. I suppose End of conversion flag does not get set. I am using STM32f429I Discovery board, which has STM32f429ZI on board.
Note that I know about sprintf being bad practice and making adc with interrupt is better, I know that, please don't point it out, this is not relevant to the question, I am just testing HAL here.
So the question is why EOC flag is not set or what could I do to make it work? Googling is not helping much since very few good materials about HAL out there.

Here is the code:

__IO uint16_t ADCValue=0;
void HAL_ADC_ConvCpltCallback(ADC_HandleTypeDef* hadc);

int main(void)
{
  char str[15];

  /* Various initializations */

  HAL_ADC_Start(&hadc1);
  while (1)
  {

        if (HAL_ADC_PollForConversion(&hadc1, 1000000) == HAL_OK)
        {
            ADCValue = HAL_ADC_GetValue(&hadc1);
            sprintf(str, "%d", ADCValue);
            BSP_LCD_DisplayStringAt(130,30, (uint8_t*)str, LEFT_MODE);
        }

  }

void HAL_ADC_ConvCpltCallback(ADC_HandleTypeDef* hadc)
{
    ADCValue = HAL_ADC_GetValue(&hadc1);
}

I also created the project with CubeMX, adc configuration is the following:
enter image description here

EDIT 1
I tried to debug everything and it seems that program gets stuck into checking for EOC flag – it sees that it is not shown and therefore issues timer waiting for EOC to show up(but it never gets set)
Here is the code where it gets stuck in debugger: 

/* Check End of conversion flag */
  while(!(__HAL_ADC_GET_FLAG(hadc, ADC_FLAG_EOC)))
  {
    /* Check for the Timeout */
    if(Timeout != HAL_MAX_DELAY)
    {
      if((Timeout == 0)||((HAL_GetTick() - tickstart ) > Timeout))
      {
        hadc->State= HAL_ADC_STATE_TIMEOUT;
        /* Process unlocked */
        __HAL_UNLOCK(hadc);
        return HAL_TIMEOUT;
      }
    }

Best Answer

In your original code, set the End of Conversion Selection to disabled.

 hadc1.Init.EOCSelection = DISABLE;

It turned out that #define ADC_EOC_SEQ_CONV ((uint32_t)0x00000000) value is equal to DISABLE. So actually the EOCSelection should be configured as: enter image description here
to be able to poll the ADC multiple times.

Then you can read the ADC continously without stopping and starting the ADC:

int main(void)
{
    HAL_Init();
    SystemClock_Config();
    ConfigureADC();

    HAL_ADC_Start(&hadc1);
    while(1)
    {
        if (HAL_ADC_PollForConversion(&hadc1, 1000000) == HAL_OK)
        {
            ADCValue = HAL_ADC_GetValue(&hadc1);
        }
    }
}

This way it worked fine for me.

Since HAL is a quite new library there are not a lot of resources to be find but not impossible. I learned a lot from this tutorial, it demonstrates all possible ADC useage step by step; from simple polling, to using interrupts and DMA.

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