topic Re: Trouble using DMA triggered by GPIO in Kinetis Design Studio

Trouble using DMA triggered by GPIO

benjaminschroed — Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:52:13 GMT

Hello,

I'm trying to investigate the capabilities of the DMA, and as an example, I'm trying to trigger the DMA by using a push button GPIO configured as an input. The platform I'm using is the TWR-K60F120M. I've been trying to use the processor expert since it helps greatly with the initialization code.

I've attached some screenshots of my settings. I'm simply trying to detect a falling edge of the push button, and initiate a 32-bit memory transfer. Can anyone point me to what I might be doing wrong?

For what it's worth, I know I've gotten the input GPIO working. I previously had it generating an interrupt, and it was working perfectly. It is only since I've tried to generate a DMA request instead of an interrupt that I've had issues.

Thanks!

Re: Trouble using DMA triggered by GPIO

Alice_Yang — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 02:24:32 GMT

Hello ,

What about the issues? Could you please describe the issues clearly , then we can check the reason .

Alice

Re: Trouble using DMA triggered by GPIO

benjaminschroed — Fri, 16 Oct 2015 12:00:15 GMT

Hi Alice,

It just appears that nothing is happening. I essentially set the "source" memory location to a test value that I expected to get copied over into the "destination" location. The destination never gets updated as I would expect it to; it just maintains its initial value.

Thanks

Re: Trouble using DMA triggered by GPIO

Alice_Yang — Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:13:52 GMT

Hello ,

There is a DMA sample code develop on CodeWarrior 10.6 , the function is transfer the data 0x12 from "sou" to "des", you can refer to it .

Hope it helps

Have a great day,
Alice

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Re: Trouble using DMA triggered by GPIO

benjaminschroed — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:51:15 GMT

Hi Alice,

I have no problem getting source code examples for other processors, but there is a lot to configuring the eDMA. Due to this, I would like to lean on Processor Expert as much as possible to help with initialization of device drivers. That being said, I have tried writing code to do this using the PDD macro API, but to no avail.

I guess my question is are there any "gotchas" when configuring DMA to be triggered from a peripheral? Is there a basic "Hello World" example that shows a basic peripheral (e.g. GPIO) triggering a DMA using processor expert?

Or maybe a better question. I want my DMA features to be active all the time and triggered from a peripheral, thus in Processor Expert I only have need to call Init_eDMA. Are there any other registers I need to poke while I'm in main() to enable/start DMA?

Thanks again!

Re: Trouble using DMA triggered by GPIO

Alice_Yang — Fri, 23 Oct 2015 07:03:29 GMT

Hello Benjamin,

- About the PE-CW demo code , i have not the GPIO trigger DMA, while there is HW trigger DMA , it use DAC , i think the configure of the DMA

is the same , so you can refer to . After you add the component "DMA_LDD" or "DMAChannel_ldd" , then right click the component , select the

"help on component " , in the Typical Usage , you can find the demo :

Does this can help you ?

Alice