I am working on an Arduino Mega 2560 project. At a Windows 7 PC I am using the Arduino1.0 IDE. I need to establish a serial Bluetooth communication with a baud rate of 115200. I need to receive an interrupt when data is available at RX. Every piece of code I have seen use “polling”, which is placing a condition of Serial.available inside Arduino’s loop. How can I replace this approach at Arduino’s loop for an Interrupt and its Service Routine? It seems that attachInterrupt() does not provides for this purpose. I depend on an Interrupt to awake the Arduino from sleep mode.
I have developed this simple code that is supposed to turn on a LED connected to the pin 13.
#include <avr/interrupt.h>
#include <avr/io.h>
void setup()
{
pinMode(13, OUTPUT); //Set pin 13 as output
UBRR0H = 0;//(BAUD_PRESCALE >> 8); // Load upper 8-bits of the baud rate value into the high byte of the UBRR register
UBRR0L = 8; // Load lower 8-bits of the baud rate value into the low byte of the UBRR register
UCSR0C |= (1 << UCSZ00) | (1 << UCSZ10); // Use 8-bit character sizes
UCSR0B |= (1 << RXEN0) | (1 << TXEN0) | (1 << RXCIE0); // Turn on the transmission, reception, and Receive interrupt
}
void loop()
{
//Do nothing
}
ISR(USART0_RXC_vect)
{
digitalWrite(13, HIGH); // Turn the LED on
}
The problem is that the subroutine is never served.