LPC845 - continous SPI with DMA

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LPC845 - continous SPI with DMA

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nxp19
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I need to send some Data over SPI really fast. Goal is an continuous data stream with 5 Mbit data rate. Data is 64 frames with 32 bytes each. The data I need to send repeats itself, after I reach frame 64, we start with frame 0 again. After each frame, Chip Select has to be deasserted.

First I got the SPI up and running, just using interrupts. I used the SPI Interrupt example as base. The result was a 5-10µSec gap after each 16 bit sent. Also there was an event longer 30-50µSec gap after each frame while the SPI interrupt triggered and check for the "mstidle" state, waiting to send the next frame.

Next I tried SPI with DMA. This went far better. There was no gap between the bytes inside a frame. But with DMA i get a really big 250µSec gap after each frame. I guess this is caused by preparing the next frame for DMA.

At last I tried to chain up all frames as dma_descriptor_t:

  dma_transfer_config_t masterTxDmaConfig;

     lastData = spi0_user_data.cycles[spi0_user_data.cycle][DRIVER_COUNT] | kSPI_EndOfTransfer | (SPI0->TXCTL & 0xFFFF0000);

     DMA_CreateDescriptor(&txDescriptor[0], &dma_cfg_end, &lastData, (void *)&SPI0->TXDATCTL, &txDescriptor[1]);

     DMA_CreateDescriptor(&txDescriptor[1], &dma_cfg_base, spi0_user_data.cycles[spi0_user_data.cycle+1], (void *)&SPI0->TXDATCTL, &txDescriptor[2]);
  DMA_CreateDescriptor(&txDescriptor[2], &dma_cfg_end, &lastData, (void *)&SPI0->TXDATCTL, &txDescriptor[3]);

     DMA_CreateDescriptor(&txDescriptor[3], &dma_cfg_base, spi0_user_data.cycles[spi0_user_data.cycle+1], (void *)&SPI0->TXDATCTL, &txDescriptor[4]);
     DMA_CreateDescriptor(&txDescriptor[4], &dma_cfg_end, &lastData, (void *)&SPI0->TXDATCTL, &txDescriptor[0]);

     DMA_PrepareTransfer(&masterTxDmaConfig, spi0_user_data.cycles[spi0_user_data.cycle], (void *)&SPI0->TXDAT, sizeof(uint16_t), DRIVER_COUNT - 1, kDMA_MemoryToPeripheral, &txDescriptor[0]);

     masterTxDmaConfig.xfercfg.intA = false;
     masterTxDmaConfig.xfercfg.intB = false;

     DMA_SubmitTransfer(&masterTxHandle, &masterTxDmaConfig);

     DMA_StartTransfer(&masterTxHandle);

Config:

 /* DMA init */
 DMA_Init(DMA0);

    /* Enable channel and Create handle for TX channel. */
    DMA_EnableChannel(DMA0, DMA_SPI_MASTER_TX_CHANNEL);
    DMA_CreateHandle(&masterTxHandle, DMA0, DMA_SPI_MASTER_TX_CHANNEL);
    DMA_SetCallback(&masterTxHandle, spi_dma_finished, NULL);

    /* Set the channel priority. */
    DMA_SetChannelPriority(DMA0, DMA_SPI_MASTER_TX_CHANNEL, kDMA_ChannelPriority3);

    dma_cfg_end.valid         = true;
 dma_cfg_end.swtrig        = true;
 dma_cfg_end.intA          = true;
 dma_cfg_end.byteWidth     = sizeof(uint32_t);
 dma_cfg_end.srcInc        = 0;
 dma_cfg_end.dstInc        = 0;
 dma_cfg_end.transferCount = 1;

 dma_cfg_base.valid         = true;
 dma_cfg_base.swtrig        = true;
 dma_cfg_base.intA          = false;
 dma_cfg_base.byteWidth     = sizeof(uint16_t);
 dma_cfg_base.srcInc        = 1;
 dma_cfg_base.dstInc        = 0;
 dma_cfg_base.transferCount = DRIVER_COUNT;

But in this case the interrupts never fired and chip selct (SSEL) was never deasserted.

Any Idea how to close this gap between frames?

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nxp19
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Ok... Tried some more stuff. Came up with following example:

dma_cfg_end.valid         = true;
 dma_cfg_end.swtrig        = true;
 dma_cfg_end.intA          = true;
 dma_cfg_end.byteWidth     = sizeof(uint32_t);
 dma_cfg_end.srcInc        = 0;
 dma_cfg_end.dstInc        = 0;
 dma_cfg_end.transferCount = 1;

 dma_cfg_base.valid         = true;
 dma_cfg_base.reload        = true;
 dma_cfg_base.swtrig        = true;
 dma_cfg_base.clrtrig       = false;
 dma_cfg_base.intA          = false;
 dma_cfg_base.intB          = false;
 dma_cfg_base.byteWidth     = sizeof(uint16_t);
 dma_cfg_base.srcInc        = 1;
 dma_cfg_base.dstInc        = 0;
 dma_cfg_base.transferCount = 2;



SDK_ALIGN(uint32_t lastData, 4) = 0U;
SDK_ALIGN(uint16_t text16Data[2], 4) = {0U};

extern dma_descriptor_t txDescriptor;
extern dma_descriptor_t txDescriptor2;

extern dma_xfercfg_t dma_cfg_base;
extern dma_xfercfg_t dma_cfg_end;

void setup_dma () {
  dma_transfer_config_t masterTxDmaConfig;

  text16Data[1] = 0xFFFF;
     lastData = 0x0 | kSPI_EndOfTransfer | (SPI0->TXCTL & 0xFFFF0000);

     DMA_CreateDescriptor(&txDescriptor, &dma_cfg_base, text16Data, (void *)&SPI0->TXDATCTL, &txDescriptor2);
     DMA_CreateDescriptor(&txDescriptor2, &dma_cfg_end, &lastData, (void *)&SPI0->TXDATCTL, NULL);

     DMA_PrepareTransfer(&masterTxDmaConfig, spi0_user_data.cycles[spi0_user_data.cycle], (void *)&SPI0->TXDAT, sizeof(uint16_t), BYTE_PER_CYCLE-2, kDMA_MemoryToPeripheral, &txDescriptor);

     masterTxDmaConfig.xfercfg.intA = false;
     masterTxDmaConfig.xfercfg.intB = false;

     DMA_SubmitTransfer(&masterTxHandle, &masterTxDmaConfig);

     DMA_StartTransfer(&masterTxHandle);

If I try "dma_cfg_base.transferCount = 1"  it works. anything higher than this will crash the driver, causing it to immediately stopping all output and never start up again.

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FelipeGarcia
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NXP Employee

Hello,

 

Are you still having issues setting DMA? We also have an SPI demo using DMA in the SDK that you may find useful.

 

Best regards,

Felipe

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nxp19
Contributor II

Found my mistake. I tried to write just 2 byte to TXDATCTL, I changed the target register to TXDAT and now it works fine and fast :smileywink:

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FelipeGarcia
NXP Employee
NXP Employee

I am glad to hear that. Thanks for sharing the solution with the community!

 

Regards,

Felipe

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