Design of multi-parameter real-time acquisition and processing system controlled by single chip microcomputer

0 Introduction

In modern industrial control systems, multi-parameter real-time acquisition plays a very important role in the normal operation of monitoring equipment. Multi-parameter signal acquisition is to convert the analog quantity of the physical quantity, chemical quantity or biological quantity of the monitoring site into a voltage signal that is easy to collect and process through the corresponding sensor and conditioning circuit. After being processed by the single-chip microcomputer, it is fed back to the control component to control and adjust the monitored object on the one hand, and sent to the display unit on the other hand to display the collected signal data in real time. In the control fields of aviation, automobiles, communications, gardening, etc., multi-parameter real-time acquisition and processing is the core of the automatic control system. However, the price of dedicated data acquisition equipment is tens of thousands of yuan, and the price of high-speed data acquisition cards is also more than one thousand yuan. Moreover, most of these devices have fixed interfaces and cannot adapt to the needs of the various objects being measured, and are not universal. From the application perspective, this paper designs a real-time data acquisition system with a resolution of 8 bits. With the support of the STC_ISP_V394 software environment, the collected parameters are displayed in real time on a PC. The lower computer uses AT89C52 single-chip microcomputer as the control unit, and the 8-channel A/D conversion chip ADC0809 collects two voltage signals: channel 0 is sampled once every 1s, for a total of 10 times; channel 1 is sampled once every 5s, for a total of 20 times. The collected data is sent to the upper computer via serial communication to realize real-time display. This system uses different sensors to replace the collection of two voltage signals, which is suitable for various control circuits and has strong versatility.

1 System Hardware Design

The data acquisition and processing system is divided into five units: microcontroller main control module, A/D conversion module, digital tube display module, keyboard control module and serial communication module. The system composition block diagram is shown in Figure 1.

1.1 A/D conversion module

The analog-to-digital conversion uses the commonly used chip ADC0809, which has an 8-channel multiplexer inside. Since there is only one converter inside for conversion, the 8-way analog signal can only be converted in time-sharing. According to the signal decoded by the latched address line, only one of the 8 analog input signals is selected at a certain moment, and the analog-to-digital conversion is performed based on the principle of successive approximation. The conversion time is 100μs and the conversion accuracy is 8 bits.

The internal structure of ADC0809 is shown in Figure 2. To start ADC0809 for A/D conversion, first input a 3-bit address signal and make ALE high, store the address in the address latch, and select one of the 8 analog inputs to the comparator after decoding by the decoder; the rising edge of START will gradually approach the register reset, and the falling edge will start the A/D conversion. The EOC output signal becomes low, indicating that the conversion is in progress. Until EOC becomes high, it means that the A/D conversion is over, and the conversion result is stored in the latch. When the OE input is high, the output tri-state gate is opened, and the digital value of the conversion result is output to the data bus.

1.2 Keyboard and display module

The human-computer interaction of the parameter acquisition and processing system uses a 2×8 matrix keyboard and a static digital tube display, as shown in Figure 3. In order to save the I/O port line of the microcontroller, the human-computer interaction is controlled by two lines, using the analog switch CD4052 to switch and control the data signals of the keyboard and digital tube.

1.3 Serial communication module

Since the microcontroller and PC use different logic levels, the level matching, drive capability matching, component selection and other electrical characteristics must be considered when designing the serial interface circuit. PCs usually have two standard RS232 serial ports. In order to improve the anti-interference ability, this interface uses EIA level logic, as shown in Table 1.

In order to achieve level compatibility between the microcontroller and the PC, the microcontroller must go through level conversion when communicating with the PC. Usually, MCl488 and MCl489 chips are used to achieve level conversion, but the circuit structure of these two conversion chips is complex, the power supply requires ±12V power supply, the operation is unstable, and the chip is easy to burn out. This design uses the MAX232 integrated circuit chip, which is only powered by +5V. It has two sets of voltage conversion circuits inside, and the peripheral circuit is equipped with 4 boost capacitors to achieve mutual conversion between EIA level and TTL level. It has the characteristics of simple circuit structure, small number of components, single power supply, low power consumption, etc. The serial interface circuit composed of the MAX232 chip is shown in Figure 4.

The AT89C52 microcontroller has a programmable, full-duplex serial port. During communication, the serial data received and sent are exchanged through the serial data buffer SUBF of the special function register SFR, so it can be used for multi-machine communication, which is particularly suitable for communication between terminals and system hosts.

1.4 MCU and A/D interface module

The single-chip microcomputer adopts the AT89C52 single-chip microcomputer produced by ATMEL. It is manufactured with advanced technology, has a high-performance MCS51 core design, and has a non-volatile Flash program memory. It is a high-performance, low-power 8-bit CMOS microprocessor chip with wide market applications and has great advantages in realizing signal acquisition, data processing, serial transmission, real-time control, etc.
This design adopts the query method to collect data and reasonably allocates the resources of the single-chip microcomputer. Most of the time, the single-chip microcomputer is used to run the control program, and only when the acquisition time comes, the single-chip microcomputer is used to execute the acquisition program. Figure 5 shows the interface circuit between ADC0809 and the single-chip microcomputer. When data needs to be collected, the single-chip microcomputer first outputs the address signal to specify the channel for collection, then makes ALE and START high, starts A/D conversion, and then the single-chip microcomputer handles other affairs, and later checks whether EOC is high. If it is high, the conversion is over. When the conversion result needs to be read, a read command is sent to make OE high to read the conversion result, and the conversion result is stored in the specified unit for digital tube display and upload to the PC.

2 System Software Design

The system software mainly includes: system initialization, key judgment program, AD conversion program, digital tube display program and serial communication program. Figure 6 is a flowchart of the program structure.

The single chip uses 11.0592MHz crystal oscillator, the timer selects working mode 2, the serial port works in mode 1, and the baud rate is set to 9600. The host PC uses the "Serial Debug Assistant" function in the STC_ISP_V394 development environment to receive serial data and display the acquisition results. Figure 7 is the STC_ISP_V394 data acquisition interface, which shows the real-time acquisition results of the two voltage signals.

MCU serial communication initialization settings:
MOV TMOD, #20H: T1 working mode 2
MOV THl, #0FDH: baud rate 9600
MOV SCON, #40H: serial port working mode 1
SETB TR1: open timer 1
MCU sends data:
MOV SBUF, A: send the received data to the PC
JNBTI, S
CLR TI

3 Conclusion

This article introduces a method for implementing data acquisition and serial communication interface based on A/D conversion chip ADC0809 and AT89C52 single-chip microcomputer. This design is debugged on a self-made development machine, which uses STC89C54 single-chip microcomputer with ISP online programming function. Program download and data communication are completed in the STC_ISP_V394 development environment. It has been verified in practice that it has a good effect in short-distance transmission, and no data loss or error occurs during transmission. Data acquisition and serial data transmission are very important in industrial control. This design has general versatility, and readers can improve it according to their actual needs to meet the needs of engineering design.