DSO Shell - Rewired rotary encoder + buttons

So, as seen previously, the screen is conflicting with the rotary encoder making it very inaccurate and unresponsive.

We have freed the RX/TX pins , so we can use them as left/right for the rotary encoder
While we are at it, let's add some hardware debouncing to reduce the noise on the interrupt lines of left/right.
Again, it does not conflict with the screen any longer, so we can add caps to the lines.


I cut the 1 & 2pins below the rotary encoder (the 2 left side on the pic), that disconnects PB0 & PB1.



The regular buttons are now managed by a FreeRTOS task that lazily poll them and do software debouncing.



Since we are using RX/TX pins, we have the rotary encoder connected to port A.
No need to block the EXT irq when updating the screen (port B) => no missed transitions.

The interrupt is pretty fast, just a lockup table search.

The buttons are a two layers software debouncer, so no interrupt there either.

  1. First an integrator debouncer to filter out the noise
  2. Second, a small finite state machine to issue events : short press & long press

Almost finished, just needs a bit of cleaning up and protecting the poll from the screen (which can be done lazily)





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