Posted on November 21, 2017 at 03:39I am working on a project based of stm32f746G EVAL board. It uses LCD controller with frame buffer in SDRAM, internal flash for code, external flash to store fonts and media, and external SRAM for RW+ZI data.
Finally got it to run after migrating RW & ZI to external SRAM, but have a whole lot of problems.
As ZI data increases, over 600kB or so LCD starts flickering and windows with images show images all corrupted.
RW+ZI is linked to 0x68000000
I defined DATA_IN_ExtSRAM in 'system_stm32f7xx.c' and used startup.s file from SRAM _DATA_MEMORY example which intializes ext SRAM using temporary stack pointer to internal SRAM.
Here is what i have for MPU configs:
MPU_InitStruct.Enable = MPU_REGION_ENABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.BaseAddress = 0x68000000;
MPU_InitStruct.Size = MPU_REGION_SIZE_256KB;
MPU_InitStruct.AccessPermission = MPU_REGION_FULL_ACCESS;
MPU_InitStruct.IsBufferable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_BUFFERABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.IsCacheable = MPU_ACCESS_CACHEABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.IsShareable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_SHAREABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.Number = MPU_REGION_NUMBER0;
MPU_InitStruct.TypeExtField = MPU_TEX_LEVEL0;
MPU_InitStruct.SubRegionDisable = 0x00;
MPU_InitStruct.DisableExec = MPU_INSTRUCTION_ACCESS_ENABLE;
HAL_MPU_ConfigRegion(&MPU_InitStruct);
MPU_InitStruct.Enable = MPU_REGION_ENABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.BaseAddress = 0x60000000;
MPU_InitStruct.Size = MPU_REGION_SIZE_16MB;
MPU_InitStruct.AccessPermission = MPU_REGION_PRIV_RO;
MPU_InitStruct.IsBufferable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_BUFFERABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.IsCacheable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_CACHEABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.IsShareable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_SHAREABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.Number = MPU_REGION_NUMBER2;
MPU_InitStruct.TypeExtField = MPU_TEX_LEVEL0;
MPU_InitStruct.SubRegionDisable = 0x00;
MPU_InitStruct.DisableExec = MPU_INSTRUCTION_ACCESS_DISABLE;
HAL_MPU_ConfigRegion(&MPU_InitStruct);
MPU_InitStruct.Enable = MPU_REGION_ENABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.BaseAddress = 0xC0000000;
MPU_InitStruct.Size = MPU_REGION_SIZE_32MB;
MPU_InitStruct.AccessPermission = MPU_REGION_FULL_ACCESS;
MPU_InitStruct.IsBufferable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_BUFFERABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.IsCacheable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_CACHEABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.IsShareable = MPU_ACCESS_NOT_SHAREABLE;
MPU_InitStruct.Number = MPU_REGION_NUMBER3;
MPU_InitStruct.TypeExtField = MPU_TEX_LEVEL1;
MPU_InitStruct.SubRegionDisable = 0x00;
MPU_InitStruct.DisableExec = MPU_INSTRUCTION_ACCESS_DISABLE;
HAL_MPU_ConfigRegion(&MPU_InitStruct);
Fort the 1st region, I could not set
MPU_InitStruct.Size to anything larger than 2
56KB as BSP_SRAM_Init() fails if I do so which is really weird.
Disabling MPU causes LCD flickering and image corruption regardless of code/RW/ZI size.
And I also have RESET issues when after few resets, it will not respond anymore, never goes to main, (stuck at BX R0 line) and the only way to revive my board is to power cycle
None of the problems exist if RW+ZI placed inside of internal SRAM at 0x20000000
