releaselog.txt (an old generated version line) is removed; changelog.txt
holds the release notes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
"refresh rle" is a third refresh mode next to off and on (auto_capture 2,
__REFRESH_RLE__). Plain "refresh on" is unchanged, so existing hosts keep
working; firmware without the mode answers "usage: refresh off|on".
- A bulk push of 256 pixels or more is sent as "rle8\r\n" + x, y, w, h,
u16 palette size + the region's own sorted palette, then the w * h
palette indices as one PackBits stream without lengths (DiSlord's
packbits(), 480 indices at a time). Background runs continue over the
rows. Smaller pushes fit the USB queue and stay "bulk", as do regions
with more than 256 colours or that might not get smaller.
- The waterfall scrolls the LCD as without remote desktop (4 lines at a
time) while remote_hold drops the pushes, then sends one "scrl\r\n" +
x, y, w, h + int16 dy instead of pushing every moved row again.
Tested on HW V0.5.4 (ZS407) with tinySA-App: the screen rebuilt from a
capture and all pushes equals a raw capture (0 pixels differ), every
stream is byte-identical to packbits(). Normal screen 289 -> 34 KB/s,
big waterfall 368 -> 23 KB/s at 2.12 instead of 1.75 sweeps/s.
Costs about 530 bytes of flash and 544 bytes of RAM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 'reset dfu' and enter_dfu() are now also built for the tinySA4 (the
DFU menu stays tinySA3 only); the reply is sent before the reset
- F303 __early_init(): the jump to the system bootloader failed and the
bootloader reset the MCU. crt0 calls __early_init() on the process
stack with interrupts disabled, so switch to the main stack
(CONTROL = 0) and enable interrupts before the jump, as in the F072
board.c. Also enable the SYSCFG clock for the system memory remap and
replace the logical || that made it write 1 to SYSCFG_CFGR1
Tested on HW V0.4.5.1: 'reset dfu' enters the STM32 BOOTLOADER and
dfu-util can flash it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
'capture' with any argument (tinySA-App sends 'capture rle') sends the
screen in the NanoVNA-D (DiSlord) RLE8 format: "BM", width, height,
bpp 8, compression 1, the palette, then per row the PackBits packed
palette indices. Plain 'capture' still sends raw RGB565.
The palette holds all colours the tinySA draws, so the screen is read
once: the LCD palette, the waterfall colours and the trace colours ORed
over each other and over the colours drawn before them in draw_cell().
The image viewer and the display test set capture_verify, as does a
colour not in the palette: the next capture then reads the screen twice
to add its colours, or sends raw when there are more than 256.
The screen is now read as one DMA stream (ili9341_read_memory_start /
next / end) so the next row is read while the current one is packed or
sent. Tested on HW V0.4.5.1, pixel exact against raw on normal, 4 trace,
waterfall, menu and keypad screens:
- capture rle: about 28 KB, 253 ms (was 482 ms raw)
- capture: 345 ms (was 482 ms)
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Found by an adversarial review of last week's changes.
- disk_ioctl(GET_SECTOR_COUNT): add READ_BL_LEN and C_SIZE_MULT of CSD v1
cards (<= 2 GB) instead of ORing them. USB DISK mode reported half or a
quarter of the card size. Mask the reserved bits of C_SIZE for CSD v2.
- fw_update_ui() is not inlined into browser_open_file(): its locals
enlarged the browser's stack frame from 280 to 416 bytes for every file
type, leaving little headroom on the sweep thread stack.
- Firmware update: the image trailer is a C constant built from the
fw_update.h values, the linker script only places it; the RAM range check
uses the linker's RAM symbols; SD_SPI_SPEED and SD_INIT_SPI_SPEED move to
spi.h and are shared with the flasher, with a build check that the LCD
uses the same speed; the linker script checks that the flasher's write
limit (SAVE_CONFIG_ADDR) is the end of flash0.
STORAGE -> UPDATE FIRMWARE installs a firmware .bin from the SD card.
The shell command "fwupdate {file}" checks a file, "fwupdate {file} flash"
installs it. Config, calibration and presets (0x0803C000 and up) are never
touched; ROM DFU (jog held at power-on) stays the recovery.
- Image format: STM32F303xC.ld inlines the code rules to place a header
(magic, model, size, version) directly after the vector table and a
trailer (end magic, size, CRC field left unset) at the end of the image.
Only images with the header are accepted.
- Before anything is erased, the running firmware reads the whole file with
FatFs (page CRCs, image CRC, card sector map from FIL.clust) and reads it
again with the raw sector reader used by the update (dry run).
- The flasher runs from CCM RAM with interrupts off and VTOR in CCM. It keeps
page 0 in RAM, erases page 0 first and programs it last after a full image
CRC check, skips unchanged pages, retries errors without user input and
initializes the SD card again after it was removed or keeps failing.
It draws a progress bar and resets only after jog is released, because
jog pressed at reset starts the ROM bootloader.
The tinySA ULTRA now enumerates as a composite device: the CDC serial
port plus a mass storage interface (Bulk-Only Transport, SCSI). The SD
card is only presented to the PC in USB DISK mode (STORAGE menu or shell
command 'usbdisk on|off'), which stops sweeping and screen updates so the
mass storage thread owns SPI1 and spi_buffer. Outside the mode the PC
sees an empty card reader, so the serial port never re-enumerates. The
mode ends on touch, jog button, eject from the PC, card removal or
'usbdisk off'.
- usb_msc.c/h: mass storage thread, BOT state machine, SCSI commands
- usbcfg.c: composite descriptors (IAD, bcdDevice 0x0201), bulk EP3,
requests hook, packet memory reuse on a repeated SET_CONFIGURATION and
data toggle reset on CLEAR_FEATURE (both specific to this ChibiOS fork)
- ui.c: USB DISK menu item and mode screen
- main.c: 'usbdisk' command; shell commands that could use SPI1 are
refused while the mode is active
F072 builds are unchanged. Tested on HW V0.5.4 with Windows 11: about
620 KB/s read and 370 KB/s write, data verified against FatFs reads.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- SD_SendCmd(): send STOP_TRANSMISSION without waiting for not busy and
skip its stuff byte, as in ChaN's reference driver. During a multiple
block read the card sends data, which can contain no 0xFF at all, so
CMD12 was not sent and the card kept streaming
- Wait up to 200 ms for the read data token, SDHC/SDXC read access time
can be up to 100 ms and 50 ms made reads fail
- disk_read(): convert the sector to a byte address only once for byte
addressed (<= 2 GB) cards
- disk_read()/disk_write(): reject a zero sector count
- disk_ioctl(): GET_SECTOR_COUNT available without FF_USE_MKFS
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
- ChibiOS: send a zero length packet after any multiple of the bulk IN
packet size (backport from ChibiOS 21.11)
- halconf.h: name the serial buffer settings the way this ChibiOS fork
reads them (values equal to the defaults in use)
- shell_reset_console(): call the I-class queue functions locked
- VNAShell_executeLine(): enqueue the shell thread locked and only while
the command is still pending
- btn_wait_release(): wrap-safe repeat timing
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The zero-span time grid can be calculated before actual_sweep_time_us is updated, leaving the display aligned to the previous sweep duration.
Calculate grid geometry without mutating global state, recompute it after the measured sweep time is stored, and redraw only when the resulting tuple changes. Use 64-bit arithmetic through the final time-domain division so short sweeps retain exact pixel geometry.
The compact scientific formatter emits its leading digit by adding the
normalized integer mantissa to '0'. Its upper normalization loop stops at
exactly 10, however, so powers of ten use ':' (the character after '9') as
their leading digit. For example, -100.0 becomes -:.000000e+01.
Keep the normalized mantissa below 10. This preserves surrounding values
and renders exact powers with a valid leading digit and adjusted exponent.
The RTC backup checksum covers every byte except the checksum itself, including a reserved packed byte that was never assigned. Its stack value could therefore make otherwise valid state fail verification after reset.
Zero-initialize the complete backup image before assigning persisted fields so the checksum and reserved byte are deterministic.
It's now possible to save capture, traces, or both by clicking SD card icon
Disabling both options hides SD card icon
Config submenu was added to Storage menu, and all settings were moved there
Existing config remains valid, and default behavior with saving a capture is kept
When long sweep completes, a black line appeared at the bottom of the screen
Also, the same issue occurred even with progress bar turned off
This commit amends 3a006f5312, erikkaashoek/tinySA#145
* Hide progress bar in file browser
* Hide progress bar in form/fullscreen menu
* Do not clear progress bar when it was not drawn. This is the case with file browser when previous or next page button is held but not released
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