I have a problem, found on both ATMEGA1284P and ATMEGA2560.
I have set a 16-bit timer in CTC (tried both Timer1 and Timer5) to give an interrupt every 1ms so I can increment a 32-bit volatile time variable. At the same time, I am sending and receiving data using UART1 and UART2.
This works for some time, however, after exactly 1 min and 6 seconds (~65500 ms ~= 2^16 ms), my UART1 stops working. UART2 and everything else is still working as expected. When I disable my timer, UART1 keeps working.
I would highly appreciate any help. I have posted my initialization code, let me know if I can provide anything else to find a solution.
UART1 Init code:
#define F_CPU 16000000UL
// (I have also tried disabling the 16 MHz clock and fall back
// to the 8 MHz clock, setting OCR1A to 0x03EF, with no success)
void uart1_init() {
uint16_t baudrate = UART_BAUD_SELECT(BAUD485, F_CPU));
UBRR1H = (uint8_t)(baudrate>>8);
UBRR1L = (uint8_t) baudrate;
// Clear USART Transmit complete flag, normal USART transmission speed
UCSR1A = (1 << TXC1) | (0 << U2X1);
// Enable receiver, transmitter and receive interrupt
UCSR1B = (1 << RXEN1) | (1 << TXEN1) | (1 << RXCIE1);
// Asynchronous mode, no parity, 1 stop bit, character size = 8-bit
UCSR1C = (1 << UCSZ11) | (1 << UCSZ10) | (0 << UCPOL1);
}
// somewhere later: sei();
Timer1 code:
volatile uint32_t time = 0;
void timer_init(void) {
// This code sets up Timer1 for a 1ms @ 16Mhz Clock (mode 4)
OCR1A = 0x07CF;
// Mode 4, CTC on OCR1A
TCCR1B |= (1 << WGM12);
// Set interrupt on output compare match
TIMSK1 |= (1 << OCIE1A);
// Set prescaler to 8 and start the timer
TCCR1B |= (1 << CS11) ;
}
ISR(TIMER1_COMPA_vect) {
// Action to be done every 1 ms
// Problem also occurs with empty interrupt
// What I should have here: time++;
}
