[avr-gcc-list] AT86RF211 (TRX01) - Communication Problem

[John Yannakopoulos]

Hi everyone,

I'm working with the AVR-TRX01 daughter boards, which the AT90S8535
microcontroller is embedded in each. Thanks to the wireless interface (RF211),
I can send messages from the one board to the other (in software, using 
avr-gcc).

I want to measure the latency of a message from one board to the other. In
this case, at the sensor board I'm calling the 'Send_MsgTRX()' function
and at the display board the 'Read_MsgTRX()' function. I'm using the T/C0 of
the AVR for measuring this time. I'm launching the timer before 'Send_MsgTRX'
and stopping it just after the 'Send_MsgTRX' has returned the control to the
main() function and I'm counting timer overflows as well as the remainder
timer ticks. This works fine!

Now, I want to measure the RTT of a message sent from one board to the
other and back again. In my code, I'm doing it like this:

/* Sensor Board Code Snippet */

Start_Timer0 ();        /* Start T/C0 */
Send_MsgTRX (128, data, TRX_DATARATE);
result = Read_Msg_TRX (128, data, TRX_NO_TIMEOUT);
Stop_Timer0 ();

/* End Sensor Board Code Snippet */

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/* Display Board Code Snippet */

result = Read_Msg_TRX (128, data, TRX_NO_TIMEOUT);
Send_Msg_TRX (128, data, TRX_DATARATE);

/* End Display Board Code Snippet */


But this doesn't seem to work! Any idea???

Regards,

--
Ioannis Yannakopoulos.