Correct way to debounce switches?

[sjalloq]

Hey there,

just starting out with my dev board, USB Audio, and have been playing with the limited hardware that I have available to interact with. That's two switches and two LEDs.

My first hack was to get up and running with a saturating counter using the buttons to inc/dec a count value. I didn't bother with debouncing first and as expected I got multiple samples for each button press.

Then, instead of using a timer to wait the specified debounce period, I thought I'd try just waiting to sample a '1' again. This seems to work for this example which is what I don't understand. Perhaps these switches have a short bounce period but I was expecting to still get multiple samples?

What's your thinking?

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	/* Test for button pushes */
	while(1) {
		select {
			case p_buttonA when pinseq(0) :> void:
				p_buttonA when pinseq(1) :> void;
				if(count < 3)
					count++;
				break;
			case p_buttonB when pinseq(0) :> void:
				p_buttonB when pinseq(1) :> void;
				if(count > 0)
					count--;
				break;
		}

Thanks.

[paul]

Long shot here, but it may be to do with the time it takes to setup the pinseq statement. Its a few instructions, so that my be enough time for it to settle.

For button debounce I would usually want to insert delay between the two pinseq statements of a reasonable time to let the switch settle down.