Friday, November 10, 2023

PIC16F84A Simple Frequency Meter With LCD Using XC8

Frequency meter can be made using a conventional digital ICs with a big size, and complicated circuit connection. A small 8-bit micro-controller could do this job using a low level Assembly language or even a higher level C language.

In this example, I use an 8-bit PIC16F84A micro-controller to count external TTL input pulse. The total count will update for every seconds.

PIC16F84A Simple Frequency Meter With LCD Using XC8
Simulating Program


I use RA4/T0CKI (Timer0 External Clock Input) pin to count external TTL pulse. Since Timer0 is only 8-bit wide the maximum counting is only 255 counts. So I add Timer0 Interrupt to increase the maximum counts. I use XC8 built-in delay function to create a precise 1000 ms (1 second) delay before the summation of external pulse is evaluated. A 16x2 character LCD is suitable for this example.

  1. #include <stdio.h>
  2. #include <xc.h>
  3.  
  4. #define _XTAL_FREQ 4000000UL
  5.  
  6. #include "LCD4Bits.h"
  7.  
  8. void tmr0Init(void){
  9. PORTA=0;
  10. TRISA4=1;
  11. T0CS=1;
  12. T0SE=0;
  13. PSA=1;
  14. OPTION_REGbits.PS=0;
  15. T0IE=1;
  16. GIE=1;
  17. T0IF=0;
  18. }
  19.  
  20. long TMR0H=0;
  21.  
  22. void interrupt T0_ISR(void){
  23. if(T0IF){
  24. TMR0H+=1;
  25. T0IF=0;
  26. }
  27. }
  28.  
  29. int main(void){
  30. unsigned char freq[10];
  31. uint32_t temp=0;
  32. PORTB=0;
  33. TRISB=0;
  34. lcdInit();
  35. tmr0Init();
  36. lcdXY(4,1);
  37. lcdString("PIC16F84A");
  38. lcdXY(1,2);
  39. lcdString("Frequency Meter");
  40. __delay_ms(1000);
  41. lcdCommand(CLEAR_SCREEN);
  42. __delay_ms(5);
  43. lcdXY(4,1);
  44. lcdString("Frequency:");
  45. TMR0H=0;
  46. TMR0=0;
  47. while(1){
  48. __delay_ms(1000);
  49. temp=(TMR0H<<8)+TMR0;
  50. lcdXY(6,2);
  51. sprintf(freq,"%uHz ",temp);
  52. lcdString(freq);
  53. TMR0H=0;
  54. TMR0=0;
  55. }
  56. return 0;
  57. } 

I can not test it on bread-board because this chip was burn out. And I only have some newer PIC chips. So this program can only be tested using a simulator like Proteus. We can use another PIC chip like the PIC16F628A, and CCS PICC compiler

PIC16F84A Simple Frequency Meter With LCD Using XC8
Resource Usage

 

This program require 69.5% of program memory, and 89.7% of data memory. Click here to download this example.


 

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