esp32: make time monotonic across resets

Small changes to clock calibration value will cause increasing errors
the longer the device runs. Consider the case of deep sleep, assuming
that RTC counter is used for timekeeping:
- before sleep:
   time_before = rtc_counter * calibration_val
- after sleep:
   time_after = (rtc_counter + sleep_count) * (calibration_val + epsilon)
where 'epsilon' is a small estimation error of 'calibration_val'.
The apparent sleep duration thus will be:
time_after - time_before = sleep_count * (calibration_val + epsilon)
                           + rtc_counter * epsilon

Second term on the right hand side is the error in time difference
estimation, it is proportional to the total system runtime (rtc_counter).

To avoid this issue, this change makes RTC_SLOW_CLK calibration value
persistent across restarts. This allows the calibration value update to
be preformed, while keeping time after update same as before the update.
This commit is contained in:
Ivan Grokhotkov
2017-06-12 19:51:17 +08:00
parent cc8af68244
commit 8ccb2a4990
4 changed files with 52 additions and 18 deletions

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@@ -50,9 +50,9 @@ extern "C" {
* 0x3ff80000(0x400c0000) Fast 8192 deep sleep entry code
*
*************************************************************************************
* Rtc store registers usage
* RTC_CNTL_STORE0_REG
* RTC_CNTL_STORE1_REG
* RTC store registers usage
* RTC_CNTL_STORE0_REG Reserved
* RTC_CNTL_STORE1_REG RTC_SLOW_CLK calibration value
* RTC_CNTL_STORE2_REG Boot time, low word
* RTC_CNTL_STORE3_REG Boot time, high word
* RTC_CNTL_STORE4_REG External XTAL frequency
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ extern "C" {
*************************************************************************************
*/
#define RTC_SLOW_CLK_CAL_REG RTC_CNTL_STORE1_REG
#define RTC_BOOT_TIME_LOW_REG RTC_CNTL_STORE2_REG
#define RTC_BOOT_TIME_HIGH_REG RTC_CNTL_STORE3_REG
#define RTC_XTAL_FREQ_REG RTC_CNTL_STORE4_REG