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Fast-path timing calculations and raise maximum speed to 312,500eRPM. Previous maximum was about 178,571eRPM. Divide by "pole pairs" to find actual RPM; for example, for a 12N14P motor, divide by (14 / 2) or 7. The trade-off is slightly more code because of the two paths: one for the usual full 24-bit calculations, and one for 16-bit calculations when they are sufficient as a result of the shorter timing period. Note that TIMING_MIN isn't even enforced since 48fe82e -- Oops.
Fix COMP_PWM with HIGH_SIDE_PWM with tristate-style driver mode (afro… …_pr*). No output change for anything else.
Loop once instead of twice before modulating start power. This means start to modulate after about 10 seconds instead of 20, which shouldn't hurt any normal start case, but reduce heating on smaller ESCs, particularly after a crash.
Fix factory fuse suggestions for bs*.inc. (CKOPT wasn't set.)
Add support for Maytech 20A, 30A, 40A, 60A with calibrated complement… …ary PWM.
Limit zero crossing filter backtracking, take 3. Take 2 in d58be3e made some motors better and other cases, like the MT3506, worse. It is a little sad how much logic is required, but I have tried for weeks to find a more simple approach. Nothing else is able to work as well as this with all of the motors I have to test. Previously, the demagnetization path disabled power only during the zero crossing wait. This did reduce the amount of current slightly, which did help, but in many cases the timeout would keep recurring for some time, reducing output power until the back-EMF was high enough. We now disable power and align, which allows for faster acceleration even with timeouts. The remaining timeouts can probably be solved by a smoother timing_duty limit. This also restores the 240 degree zero crossing timeout which helps with motors with unbalanced windings and the ZMR RCX 1804 2400KV.
Limit zero crossing filter backtracking, take 2. The approach in 7e76349 was to just limit the maximum amount of backtracking that the ZC filtering will do while running. A counter is initialized based on the timing period and must reach zero to consider the ZC complete. If the comparator output is the wrong level, the counter may build back up to the value it started with. We simply set the "value it started with" to a fixed smaller number while in running state. This works well on the Multistar 4225 390KV 16-pole motor when dragging by hand at moderate PWM, but there are some problems. The previous long filtering method worked much better with tracking of stalled motors and motors transitioning from starting to running (or starting where the motor is already spinning). So, with the change, it can be quite easy to get ahead of the actual back-EMF and align to the electrical properties of the motor. When this occurs, we typically spiral up to maximum timing, making a squeak or squealing sound. Eventually, a zero-crossing timeout occurs or TIMING_MAX is hit enough times for it to shift the power down to 0 (part of the RPM limiter) and a zero-crossing timeout occurs. In some cases, such as with brushless gimbal motors, this happens repeatedly and it is not possible to actually run the motor unless accelerated externally. Higher maximum backtracking values help for the gimbal motor, but we then re-introduce the original problem with the 390KV. This approach reuses the late demagnetization timer as a trigger for changing the filtering backtracking whenever timing is slow enough that the backtracking value is higher than ZC_CHECK_FAST. This idea is based on the observation that there are no early transitions due to noise, only late erroneous backtracking, which is what prompted the original demag_timeout handling. So, after 24 degrees, we now detect more easily that a ZC has occurred. This method seems to have the same improvement with the 390KV, while still working fairly well with the gimbal motor (not quite as good as before, but once it is running, it is OK). Dragging the the 390KV slowly still causes the detected ZC to become late, but it doesn't seem to be a problem anymore for rapid acceleration and this only seems to happen at very low speeds. The filtering backtracking limit can also be adjusted (ZC_CHECK_FAST) to help. In the same conditions, wii-esc with fixed-time ZC filtering seems to show similar problems. Once the 390KV is started, it continues to trip the sync recovery code continuously until accelerated past a certain speed. This turns off power at every commutation, making it easily visible on the 'scope. The result seems to be reduced torque until sufficient speed is reached.
Fix regression since 675ee37 which rarely causes a full power blip at power off. When power off is requested, POWER_ON is cleared and the on duty is set to 0 cycles. This does not completely stop power, however, as the pwm_on interrupt will still occur and pwm_off will be scheduled to be called immediately after. This sets up a case where pwm_on will switch on the FET and then the AVR will execute one non-interrupt instruction before executing the next interrupt (which could be either pwm_off or int0 and pwm_off). If this instruction happens to be the "cli" of a commutation block that would advance to the next PWM FET, the FET on state would be copied to the new one, but the FET flags would be left cleared, leaving the PWM interrupt with nothing to do, resulting in the equivalent of full power until either the high side FET is turned off at the next commutation or (worse) power is requested again and the correct FET flag is set two commutations later. Instead of only setting a 0 duty cycle, always track the FET that should be PWMed, and make set_new_duty_zero set pwm_on_ptr to pwm_off so that power is immediately cut, but can still be restored without waiting until the next cycle.
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