Hardware timer triggered analog-digital conversion on ATSAM4S - arm

I have a problem with a ATSAM4S ADC unit triggered by Timer 0 (channel 1).
It seems that the ADC is triggered as fast as possible and blocks my whole application (OS is no longer operational due to this).
I want an AD conversion with 1 Hz. This is my code:
sysclk_enable_peripheral_clock(ID_TC1);
uint32_t ul_div = 0;
uint32_t ul_tc_clks = 0;
uint32_t ul_sysclk = sysclk_get_cpu_hz();
tc_find_mck_divisor(1, ul_sysclk, &ul_div, &ul_tc_clks, ul_sysclk);
// Init timer clock 0 channel 1 with the found timings and set up counter
which resets/clears on reaching the target
tc_init(TC0, 1,
ul_tc_clks|TC_CMR_WAVE|TC_CMR_WAVSEL_UP_RC|TC_CMR_ACPA_CLEAR|
TC_CMR_ACPC_SET);
tc_write_rc(TC0, 1, (ul_sysclk / ul_div));
tc_write_ra(TC0, 1, (ul_sysclk / ul_div) / 2);
sysclk_enable_peripheral_clock(ID_ADC);
adc_init(ADC, sysclk_get_cpu_hz(), 6400000, ADC_MR_STARTUP_SUT512);
adc_configure_timing(ADC, 0, ADC_MR_SETTLING_AST9, 2);
adc_set_resolution(ADC, ADC_MR_LOWRES_BITS_12);
adc_enable_tag(ADC);
NVIC_SetPriority((IRQn_Type)ADC_IRQn, 171);
NVIC_EnableIRQ(ADC_IRQn)
tc_start(TC0, 1);
adc_enable_channel(ADC, ADC_CHANNEL_0);
adc_enable_channel(ADC, ADC_TEMPERATURE_SENSOR);
adc_enable_ts(ADC);
adc_enable_interrupt(ADC, ADC_IER_DRDY);
adc_configure_trigger(ADC, ADC_TRIG_TIO_CH_1, 0);
Does anybody knwo what I did wrong?
I tested it using a Xplained Pro board (with debugging and onboard LED toggling). I always stayed inside the ADC driver and never left it. So my ADC rate is much too high, but tc_find_mck_divisor seems to return resonable values for 1Hz.
Thanks!

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I also tried using freeRTOS to build a task that checks the state of pins like every 1msec but this won't be a time accurate.
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Assuming that You use internal clock which is 8MHz I would try to handle this inside timer overflow interrupt and would use whole port to connect the sensors.
Use Timer in normal mode or CTC mode (which I find quite intuitive) to ensure periodical interrupts. Set the appropriate period. Remember that the clock has pretty low frequency so don't exaggerate (I think that 0,25 ms will fit).
Connect the sensors to one port, e.g. PORTB. This is a nice situation because ATmega32 has 4 ports with pins numbered from 0-7 and you use 8 sensors so the register for the specific port can cover all of the pins and You can use one read to get states of all of the pins.
Implement the logic:
volatile uint8_t sensors_states;
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ISR(TIMER0_OVF_vect)
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{
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if(read_flag)
{
for(uint8_t i = 0, mask = 0x80 ; i < 8 ; i ++, mask >>= 1)
{
states_time[i]++;
// Compare the previous state and present state on each pin
uint8_t state = mask & sensors_states;
if((mask & prev_sensors_states) != state)
{
// Here you can use the state of the pin and the duration of that state.
// Remember that when 'state' is > 0 it means that previous state of the
// pin was '0' and if if 'state' is == 0 then the previous pin state
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// Clear the flag to await next data update
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}
}
}
If You will try to use FreeRTOS You could use ulTaskNotifyTake and vTaskNotifyGiveFromISR, instead of using read_flag, to implement a simple mechanism which will notify a task from the interrupt that the port has been read. The processor will go into idle state for a while and you could then invoke a sleep function to minimize power consumption.
I don't know what You want to do with this data so I've invoked do_something_with_pin_change function to indicate the point where You can use the data.
To sum up for this solution You would only use one interrupt and of course 8 pins.

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