How to measure execution time? And code size?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by gnormhurst

Also, how do I know how close I am to the memory limits for code and data?

The loader reports some information on program size. I'm not sure what it all means, but it's there.

[KenWittlief]

engineers have to learn to listen to what people mean, not what they say

[Rickertsen2]

Originally Posted by gnormhurst

Can someone describe a simple way to measure how much of the 26 ms time budget is being used? As I add code I would like to know how close I am coming to the limit.

Also, how do I know how close I am to the memory limits for code and data?

Thanks all,
Norm

I wouldn't worry too much about the 26 ms. If your code starts running over, then simply write some timer based code, that automatically sunchs w/the master provessor at least every 26ms. Use a backbuffering system, where you keep two copies of your data to send, a "im still working on this data" copy and a "this data is ready to send off" copy". You have a timer interrupt based function that is called every 25 ms or so that sends of the completed set of data automatically. When you have new data, you swap out the two sets. Take as much time as you want processign and don't worry about the 26ms. I would recommend you try to keep things under 26 ms, but if you can't then the above will work just fine. The way we measure the 26 ms time is by pulsing one of the IO lines each tiem data is sent off. That line is hooked up to a frequency counter. Thats the easiest wya if you have a frequency counter, or at the very least an oscilliscope.