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DCMI does not follow VSYNC signal for synchronization

Mohammad A
Senior
Posted on August 24, 2017 at 21:30

I am trying to run an application which captures incoming Y only image data on DCMI interface.

Pixel clk is 5MHz, field rate is 50Hz (PAL video), 8 bit luminance only data and discrete sync signals.

MCU is STM32F767IG and camera device is a TVO5150AM1 decoder.

The problem I am facing here is that DCMI capture rate is not as same as VSYNC signal.

In continues mode, When VSYNC frequency is 50Hz, DCMI captured fieldrate is 40Hz.

0690X00000602URQAY.bmp

I had placed a toggle pin at VsyncEventCallback and FrameEventCallback to detect their rates. Yellow one represents Frame(field)rate while the blue one represents VSYNC frequency.

There are similar issues in snapshot mode which causes a frame to be captured from somewhere other that start of a line.

I have to add that it does not overrun, as no errorcallback is triggered.

DCMI configuration code in continues mode:

oid MX_DCMI_Init(void)
{
 hdcmi.Instance = DCMI;
 hdcmi.Init.SynchroMode = DCMI_SYNCHRO_HARDWARE;
 hdcmi.Init.PCKPolarity = DCMI_PCKPOLARITY_RISING;
 hdcmi.Init.VSPolarity = DCMI_VSPOLARITY_HIGH;
 hdcmi.Init.HSPolarity = DCMI_HSPOLARITY_LOW;
 hdcmi.Init.CaptureRate = DCMI_CR_ALL_FRAME;
 hdcmi.Init.ExtendedDataMode = DCMI_EXTEND_DATA_8B;
 hdcmi.Init.JPEGMode = DCMI_JPEG_DISABLE;
 hdcmi.Init.ByteSelectMode = DCMI_BSM_ALL;
 hdcmi.Init.ByteSelectStart = DCMI_OEBS_ODD;
 hdcmi.Init.LineSelectMode = DCMI_LSM_ALL;
 hdcmi.Init.LineSelectStart = DCMI_OELS_ODD;
 if (HAL_DCMI_Init(&hdcmi) != HAL_OK)
 {
 _Error_Handler(__FILE__, __LINE__);
 }
}
void HAL_DCMI_MspInit(DCMI_HandleTypeDef* dcmiHandle)
{
 GPIO_InitTypeDef GPIO_InitStruct;
 if(dcmiHandle->Instance==DCMI)
 {
 /* USER CODE BEGIN DCMI_MspInit 0 */
 /* USER CODE END DCMI_MspInit 0 */
 /* DCMI clock enable */
 __HAL_RCC_DCMI_CLK_ENABLE();
 
 /**DCMI GPIO Configuration 
 PA4 ------> DCMI_HSYNC
 PA6 ------> DCMI_PIXCLK
 PC6 ------> DCMI_D0
 PC7 ------> DCMI_D1
 PC8 ------> DCMI_D2
 PC9 ------> DCMI_D3
 PC11 ------> DCMI_D4
 PD3 ------> DCMI_D5
 PG9 ------> DCMI_VSYNC
 PI6 ------> DCMI_D6
 PI7 ------> DCMI_D7 
 */
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pin = GPIO_PIN_4|GPIO_PIN_6;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Mode = GPIO_MODE_AF_PP;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pull = GPIO_NOPULL;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Speed = GPIO_SPEED_FREQ_VERY_HIGH;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Alternate = GPIO_AF13_DCMI;
 HAL_GPIO_Init(GPIOA, &GPIO_InitStruct);
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pin = GPIO_PIN_6|GPIO_PIN_7|GPIO_PIN_8|GPIO_PIN_9 
 |GPIO_PIN_11;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Mode = GPIO_MODE_AF_PP;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pull = GPIO_NOPULL;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Speed = GPIO_SPEED_FREQ_VERY_HIGH;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Alternate = GPIO_AF13_DCMI;
 HAL_GPIO_Init(GPIOC, &GPIO_InitStruct);
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pin = GPIO_PIN_3;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Mode = GPIO_MODE_AF_PP;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pull = GPIO_NOPULL;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Speed = GPIO_SPEED_FREQ_VERY_HIGH;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Alternate = GPIO_AF13_DCMI;
 HAL_GPIO_Init(GPIOD, &GPIO_InitStruct);
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pin = GPIO_PIN_9;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Mode = GPIO_MODE_AF_PP;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pull = GPIO_NOPULL;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Speed = GPIO_SPEED_FREQ_VERY_HIGH;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Alternate = GPIO_AF13_DCMI;
 HAL_GPIO_Init(GPIOG, &GPIO_InitStruct);
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pin = GPIO_PIN_6|GPIO_PIN_7;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Mode = GPIO_MODE_AF_PP;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Pull = GPIO_NOPULL;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Speed = GPIO_SPEED_FREQ_VERY_HIGH;
 GPIO_InitStruct.Alternate = GPIO_AF13_DCMI;
 HAL_GPIO_Init(GPIOI, &GPIO_InitStruct);
 /* DCMI DMA Init */
 /* DCMI Init */
 hdma_dcmi.Instance = DMA2_Stream7;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.Channel = DMA_CHANNEL_1;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.Direction = DMA_PERIPH_TO_MEMORY;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.PeriphInc = DMA_PINC_DISABLE;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.MemInc = DMA_MINC_ENABLE;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.PeriphDataAlignment = DMA_PDATAALIGN_WORD;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.MemDataAlignment = DMA_MDATAALIGN_WORD;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.Mode = DMA_CIRCULAR;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.Priority = DMA_PRIORITY_VERY_HIGH;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.FIFOMode = DMA_FIFOMODE_ENABLE;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.FIFOThreshold = DMA_FIFO_THRESHOLD_FULL;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.MemBurst = DMA_MBURST_INC4;
 hdma_dcmi.Init.PeriphBurst = DMA_PBURST_SINGLE;
 if (HAL_DMA_Init(&hdma_dcmi) != HAL_OK)
 {
 _Error_Handler(__FILE__, __LINE__);
 }
 __HAL_LINKDMA(dcmiHandle,DMA_Handle,hdma_dcmi);
 /* DCMI interrupt Init */
 HAL_NVIC_SetPriority(DCMI_IRQn, 0, 0);
 HAL_NVIC_EnableIRQ(DCMI_IRQn);
 /* USER CODE BEGIN DCMI_MspInit 1 */
 /* USER CODE END DCMI_MspInit 1 */
 }
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1 REPLY 1
Mohammad A
Senior
Posted on August 25, 2017 at 07:48

OK, I have figured out something, but it's kinda strange. If I allocate more than 200KB for capture storage on internal SRAM, this strange behaviour occurs.

I don't know why, but this MCU has 512KB of SRAM, and I have not allocated RAM for any other variable yet.