pounder_test/src/hardware/pounder/attenuators.rs

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use super::{Channel, Error};
/// Provide an interface for managing digital attenuators on Pounder hardware.
///
/// Note: The digital attenuators do not allow read-back of attenuation. To circumvent this, this
/// driver maintains the attenuation code in both the shift register as well as the latched output
/// register of the attenuators. This allows the "active" attenuation code to be read back by
/// reading the shfit register. The downside of this approach is that any read is destructive, so a
/// read-writeback approach is employed.
pub trait AttenuatorInterface {
/// Set the attenuation of a single channel.
///
/// Args:
/// * `channel` - The pounder channel to configure the attenuation of.
/// * `attenuation` - The desired attenuation of the channel in dB. This has a resolution of
/// 0.5dB.
fn set_attenuation(
&mut self,
channel: Channel,
attenuation: f32,
) -> Result<f32, Error> {
if !(0.0..=31.5).contains(&attenuation) {
return Err(Error::Bounds);
}
// Calculate the attenuation code to program into the attenuator. The attenuator uses a
// code where the LSB is 0.5 dB.
let attenuation_code = (attenuation * 2.0) as u8;
// Read all the channels, modify the channel of interest, and write all the channels back.
// This ensures the staging register and the output register are always in sync.
let mut channels = [0_u8; 4];
self.read_all_attenuators(&mut channels)?;
// The lowest 2 bits of the 8-bit shift register on the attenuator are ignored. Shift the
// attenuator code into the upper 6 bits of the register value. Note that the attenuator
// treats inputs as active-low, so the code is inverted before writing.
channels[channel as usize] = (!attenuation_code) << 2;
self.write_all_attenuators(&channels)?;
// Finally, latch the output of the updated channel to force it into an active state.
self.latch_attenuators(channel)?;
Ok(attenuation_code as f32 / 2.0)
}
/// Get the attenuation of a channel.
///
/// Args:
/// * `channel` - The channel to get the attenuation of.
///
/// Returns:
/// The programmed attenuation of the channel in dB.
fn get_attenuation(&mut self, channel: Channel) -> Result<f32, Error> {
let mut channels = [0_u8; 4];
// Reading the data always shifts data out of the staging registers, so we perform a
// duplicate write-back to ensure the staging register is always equal to the output
// register.
self.read_all_attenuators(&mut channels)?;
self.write_all_attenuators(&channels)?;
// The attenuation code is stored in the upper 6 bits of the register, where each LSB
// represents 0.5 dB. The attenuator stores the code as active-low, so inverting the result
// (before the shift) has the affect of transforming the bits of interest (and the
// dont-care bits) into an active-high state and then masking off the don't care bits. If
// the shift occurs before the inversion, the upper 2 bits (which would then be don't
// care) would contain erroneous data.
let attenuation_code = (!channels[channel as usize]) >> 2;
// Convert the desired channel code into dB of attenuation.
Ok(attenuation_code as f32 / 2.0)
}
fn reset_attenuators(&mut self) -> Result<(), Error>;
fn latch_attenuators(&mut self, channel: Channel) -> Result<(), Error>;
fn read_all_attenuators(
&mut self,
channels: &mut [u8; 4],
) -> Result<(), Error>;
fn write_all_attenuators(
&mut self,
channels: &[u8; 4],
) -> Result<(), Error>;
}