3.2 ADC Free-Running

In this use case, ADC runs in Free-Running mode. It runs by configuring the EXAMPLE_CODE definition to FREE_RUNNING in main.c as:

#define EXAMPLE_CODE  FREE_RUNNING

The first conversion is started when the initial configuration of the Free-Running mode is executed. When the conversion cycle is completed, the ADC result is read from the ADC0.res register. The formula of how ADC0.res is calculated is described in ADC Conversion Result. The result is then converted to voltage format in the next line of the code, which is a reverse process of calculating ADC0.res. The converted voltage is then printed through the USART to the terminal. One can choose to use the terminal already embedded in Data Visualizer in Atmel Studio or any other external terminal. A new conversion cycle is then started immediately after the previous conversion cycle is completed.

Note: The ‘ADC_0_is_conversion_done()’ function is defined in adc_basics.c. One can open the src/adc_basics.c file to check it. It will be redefined in the adc_windows.c file when the ADC Window Compare mode is used and all related drivers will be included in the corresponding driver file.