UART and DMA on 5676R

[fab1]

In my current implementation of a project, I am using a UART to send and receive messages. However, the reception part is pretty inefficient as it can only receive one byte at the time. I have to send one byte at the time from the host. This works just fine when one is using a terminal like Putty, but it doesn't work when used with Python.serial.

    unsigned int receivedBytes = 0;
    while (receivedBytes < length)
    {
        while (ESCI_A.SR.B.RDRF == 0) {}
        ESCI_A.SR.R = 0x20000000; // Clear the RDRF flag
        *(static_cast<char*>(bytes) + receivedBytes) = static_cast<char>(ESCI_A.DR.B.D); // Read the byte from the register
        receivedBytes += 1;
    }

    return receivedBytes;
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My understanding is that with a DMA transfer, it would be possible to receive an entire array of bytes. However, I have no experience about setting up a DMA transfer for the ESCI_A.

Can anyone point out to an example with the MPC5676R and DMA transfer with ESCI_A (I couldn't find any) or help me to set it up?

Thanks!

#uart dma receiver‌

[davidtosenovjan]

Hi, I could point out following example code showing similar task:

Example MPC5676R DSPI MasterSlave DMA CW210 

eSCI example you may find for instance here, section 15:

https://www.nxp.com/docs/en/application-note/AN2865.pdf 

Hope it helps