Two continuous LPSPI blocking transfer

mastupristi — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:55:37 GMT

I have to read data from a serial Nor flash, connected to my RT1xxx through LPSPIx.

I have to send one command byte and then I have to read 10KB data.

It would be nice to do this with two transfers:

a 5-byte transfer in tx, composed by
1 command byte
3 address byte
1 dummy byte
another transfer with 10KB rx buffer, and NULL tx buffer

obviously the chip-select must be asserted at the first transfer and de-asserted at the end of the second transfer, between the two transfers the chip-select must remain asserted. In other words CONT must be 1 and CONTC 0 in the first transfer. While in the second transfer both CONT and CONTC must be 1. At the end of the second transfer CONTC shoud be written 0 to deassert CS. Obviously only one TCR write must be made between the two transactions.

I tried to draw a time diagram to explain myself better:

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In the first transaction I only write, in the second transaction I only read, but between the two the PCS must remain asserted.

I am using SDK 2.15.000, how can I achieve this behavior using API of SDK?

You may ask why do I need this? A single call to LPSPI_MasterTransferBlocking() would force me to allocate both rxData and txData buffers with two vectors of more than 10KB, in which the tx buffer is completely useless. Is exactly what I would like to avoid.

Note that some years ago I asked the same question, but did not get a satisfactory answer.

best regards

Max

Re: Two continuous LPSPI blocking transfer

Omar_Anguiano — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:00:50 GMT

Hello

I agree with the previous response, I suggest you use LPSPI_MasterTransferNonBlocking() since it has a handle that allows you to configure the bytes to receive/transmit.

In continuous mode, there are some known issues so you can opt to use PCS as GPIO to have control on it. Details on this issue are found here: Solved: RT1050 LPSPI last bit not completing in continuous mode - NXP Community

Best regards,
Omar

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