Electronic – STM32F1 troubles with a timer

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I'm having some troubles with setting up a 1 second timer on STM32F103 mcu.

I have set Timer 2 to have a prescaler of 1099 and a period of 65514, so I'm expecting to have a 1 second interrupt rate: 72MHz/1099/65514 = 1Hz.

Yet in reality I get the first interrupt before even finishing the timer configuration routine (not a big concern at the moment), the next interrupt occurs after 1000ms as expected, the next interrupt occurs after 322ms, and the next after 32ms and the next after 590ms. (these were measured according to the systick timer which I have running at 1ms).

It seems pretty random, what's going on ?

Here is part of the relevant code:

void RCC_Configuration() {
RCC_APB2PeriphClockCmd( RCC_APB2Periph_GPIOA |
                        RCC_APB2Periph_GPIOB |
                        RCC_APB2Periph_AFIO  |
                        RCC_APB2Periph_USART1, ENABLE);

RCC_APB1PeriphClockCmd( RCC_APB1Periph_TIM3 |
                        RCC_APB1Periph_TIM2, ENABLE);
}

void Timer2_4_5_Configuration() {
TIM_TimeBaseInitTypeDef  TIM_TimeBaseStructure;

TIM_TimeBaseStructure.TIM_ClockDivision = TIM_CKD_DIV1;
TIM_TimeBaseStructure.TIM_CounterMode = TIM_CounterMode_Up;
TIM_TimeBaseStructure.TIM_Prescaler = (1099-1);
TIM_TimeBaseStructure.TIM_Period = (65514-1);


TIM_TimeBaseInit(TIM2,&TIM_TimeBaseStructure);
TIM_ITConfig(TIM2, TIM_IT_Update, ENABLE);

TIM_Cmd(TIM2, ENABLE);
}

void NVIC_Configuration () {
NVIC_InitTypeDef NVIC_InitStructure;

NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannel = TIM2_IRQn;
NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannelPreemptionPriority = 0;
NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannelSubPriority = 1;
NVIC_InitStructure.NVIC_IRQChannelCmd = ENABLE;

NVIC_Init(&NVIC_InitStructure);
}

void TIM2_IRQHandler() {
TIM_ClearITPendingBit(TIM2, TIM_IT_Update);
GPIOA->ODR ^= GPIO_Pin_2;
}

EDIT: I managed to get this to work, I did a silly mistake in the rest of my code. I have used the same pin for something else forgot to comment the line, oopsy.

The led on pin 2 toggles at 1Hz as intended, but a new question arises:

I have set a breakpoint at the pin toggle line in the TIM interrupt handler and it seems it fires up at random times as stated above. But when I remove the breakpoint the led toggles as intended.

What's going on ?

P.S – I'm using CooCox IDE.

Best Answer

When a debugger stops program execution, manually or by hitting a breakpoint, it freezes the Cortex-M core (including System tick counter) while leaving the rest of system running.

Peripherals continue to count, read and write to memory and IOs, and to raise interrupt flags. The flags accumulate and once the processor is resumed, it starts servicing them.

Most peripherals can be set to suspend when the CPU is suspended, this is useful when program intervention is needed to keep correct function. By default, they are usually unaffected by debugger, although exceptions exist (Freescale FTM timer which stops by default).

STM32F1 MCUs have dedicated register for setting debug behaviour of peripherals, the DBG->DBGMCU_CR.

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