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diff --git a/doc/report/report.tex b/doc/report/report.tex index 927274e..760e2a4 100644 --- a/doc/report/report.tex +++ b/doc/report/report.tex @@ -370,8 +370,26 @@ The waves' frequencies are controlled by setting the timers' periods. \subsection*{Calibration} +In order for the device to work with any combination of sensors, gauges, and CAN encoding schemes, it must be configurable by the end-user. -TODO +The user-calibration defines the mapping between sensor readings and output signal values that drive the gauges. +It also defines how sensor readings are encoded in CAN frames. + +The \texttt{signal} module defines a \texttt{SigFmt} datastructure which specifies the format of a sensor reading, or \emph{signal} as it is known in the DBC format \cite{dbc10}, within the payload of a CAN frame. +This includes the CAN ID of the carrier frame, the size and offset of the signal within the frame's payload, and the byte order of the signal. + +The format of each signal is stored in the EEPROM as part of the user-calibration. +The calibration includes six signals: tachometer, speedometer, and the four analog channels. + +The user-calibration is programmed onto the board via special CAN frames, called \emph{calibration} or \emph{control} frames. +There are two control frames, each with a unique ID. +The first is the \emph{table control frame} which is used to read or write rows of the mapping tables. +The second is the \emph{signal control frame} which is used to read or write the encoding format of each signal. +The control frames' formats are defined in the \emph{calfmt} document in the project's source repository \cite{calfmt}. + +When the device receives a control frame, the ISR decodes it and either, in the event of a write-request, updates the appropriate segment of the calibration in the EEPROM; or in the event of a read-request, reads the appropriate segment and sends back a CAN frame in response. +This allows the calibration to be flashed onto the board using write requests and verified using read requests. +The calibration is sent to the device from a personal computer running the calibration software, which is discussed in the next section. \section{Software} \label{section:Software} |