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STM32F429i LTDC + SDRAM Buffer Issue

ankitmcgill
Associate II

I have been trying to learn the basics of STM32 LTDC peripheral to drive a 4.3" 480 x 272 LCD using STM32F429IG mcu. I am using the Open429i dev kit by Wavehshare (https://www.waveshare.com/core429i.htm) which also has an onboard 64Mbit SDRAM (IS42S16400J).

As step 1, I got the LCD to work with the LTDC controller and I am able to display appropriately formatted (RGB565) images on it by pointing the buffer to an image array in my code, like below

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So I know my LCD is good and I have configured LTDC correctly with 1 layer

2nd step, I tried interfacing with the onboard SDRAM using FMC peripheral SDRAM bank 2 and pointing the LTDC framebuffer to this address.

However when I do this, I get these weird colored streaks that seem to be scrolling horizontally. What I expected was the screen to be all white as I am clearing the SDRAM LTDC area to all 0xFF.

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A video showing the above in action is at https://vimeo.com/289213554

I feel it's something to do with my SDRAM timing but I am not sure where to look and for what. As a test I wrote an array to the SDRAM and read it back for verification, which was successfull.

FMC Init Code is

void MX_FMC_Init(void)
{
  FMC_SDRAM_TimingTypeDef SdramTiming;
 
  /** Perform the SDRAM1 memory initialization sequence
  */
  hsdram1.Instance = FMC_SDRAM_DEVICE;
  /* hsdram1.Init */
  hsdram1.Init.SDBank = FMC_SDRAM_BANK2;
  hsdram1.Init.ColumnBitsNumber = FMC_SDRAM_COLUMN_BITS_NUM_8;
  hsdram1.Init.RowBitsNumber = FMC_SDRAM_ROW_BITS_NUM_12;
  hsdram1.Init.MemoryDataWidth = FMC_SDRAM_MEM_BUS_WIDTH_16;
  hsdram1.Init.InternalBankNumber = FMC_SDRAM_INTERN_BANKS_NUM_4;
  hsdram1.Init.CASLatency = FMC_SDRAM_CAS_LATENCY_3;
  hsdram1.Init.WriteProtection = FMC_SDRAM_WRITE_PROTECTION_DISABLE;
  hsdram1.Init.SDClockPeriod = FMC_SDRAM_CLOCK_PERIOD_2;
  hsdram1.Init.ReadBurst = FMC_SDRAM_RBURST_DISABLE;
  hsdram1.Init.ReadPipeDelay = FMC_SDRAM_RPIPE_DELAY_1;
  /* SdramTiming */
  SdramTiming.LoadToActiveDelay = 2;
  SdramTiming.ExitSelfRefreshDelay = 7;
  SdramTiming.SelfRefreshTime = 4;
  SdramTiming.RowCycleDelay = 7;
  SdramTiming.WriteRecoveryTime = 2;
  SdramTiming.RPDelay = 2;
  SdramTiming.RCDDelay = 2;
 
  if (HAL_SDRAM_Init(&hsdram1, &SdramTiming) != HAL_OK)
  {
    _Error_Handler(__FILE__, __LINE__);
  }
 
}

SDRAM Init

#define SDRAM_DEVICE_ADDR  ((uint32_t)0xD0000000)
#define SDRAM_DEVICE_SIZE  ((uint32_t)0x800000)  /* SDRAM device size in MBytes */ 
#define REFRESH_COUNT      ((uint32_t)0x0569)   /* SDRAM refresh counter (90Mhz SD clock) */
#define SDRAM_TIMEOUT     ((uint32_t)680) 
 
void EXTERAL_SDRAM_Initialization_sequence(uint32_t RefreshCount)
{
    __IO uint32_t tmpmrd = 0;
 
    /* Step 1: Configure a clock configuration enable command */
    Command.CommandMode            = FMC_SDRAM_CMD_CLK_ENABLE;
    Command.CommandTarget          = FMC_SDRAM_CMD_TARGET_BANK2;
    Command.AutoRefreshNumber      = 1;
    Command.ModeRegisterDefinition = 0;
 
    /* Send the command */
    HAL_SDRAM_SendCommand(&hsdram1, &Command, SDRAM_TIMEOUT);
 
    /* Step 2: Insert 100 us minimum delay */ 
    /* Inserted delay is equal to 1 ms due to systick time base unit (ms) */
    HAL_Delay(100);
 
    /* Step 3: Configure a PALL (precharge all) command */ 
    Command.CommandMode            = FMC_SDRAM_CMD_PALL;
    Command.CommandTarget          = FMC_SDRAM_CMD_TARGET_BANK2;
    Command.AutoRefreshNumber      = 1;
    Command.ModeRegisterDefinition = 0;
 
    /* Send the command */
    HAL_SDRAM_SendCommand(&hsdram1, &Command, SDRAM_TIMEOUT);  
 
    /* Step 4: Configure an Auto Refresh command */ 
    Command.CommandMode            = FMC_SDRAM_CMD_AUTOREFRESH_MODE;
    Command.CommandTarget          = FMC_SDRAM_CMD_TARGET_BANK2;
    Command.AutoRefreshNumber      = 8;
    Command.ModeRegisterDefinition = 0;
 
    /* Send the command */
    HAL_SDRAM_SendCommand(&hsdram1, &Command, SDRAM_TIMEOUT);
 
    /* Step 5: Program the external memory mode register */
    tmpmrd = (uint32_t)SDRAM_MODEREG_BURST_LENGTH_1          |\
                        SDRAM_MODEREG_BURST_TYPE_SEQUENTIAL   |\
                        SDRAM_MODEREG_CAS_LATENCY_3           |\
                        SDRAM_MODEREG_OPERATING_MODE_STANDARD |\
                        SDRAM_MODEREG_WRITEBURST_MODE_SINGLE;
 
    Command.CommandMode            = FMC_SDRAM_CMD_LOAD_MODE;
    Command.CommandTarget          = FMC_SDRAM_CMD_TARGET_BANK2;
    Command.AutoRefreshNumber      = 1;
    Command.ModeRegisterDefinition = tmpmrd;
    //Command.ModeRegisterDefinition = 0x231;
 
    /* Send the command */
    HAL_SDRAM_SendCommand(&hsdram1, &Command, SDRAM_TIMEOUT);
 
    /* Step 6: Set the refresh rate counter */
    /* Set the device refresh rate */
    HAL_SDRAM_ProgramRefreshRate(&hsdram1, RefreshCount); 
 
    uint32_t ptr; 
    for(ptr = SDRAM_DEVICE_ADDR; ptr < (SDRAM_DEVICE_ADDR + 65280); ptr += 4)
    *((uint32_t *)ptr) = 0xffffffff;
    return 0;
 
}

1 REPLY 1
RShan
Associate II

Hi Ankit,

Did you ever figure out why this happened? I have the same issue, where I'm running LTDC off SD-RAM. SD-RAM is multi-bank and allows concurrent access, but even so, when I read/write to a different bank, the display gets messed up whilst that happens, and returns to normal after the read/write is completed. Any tips from what you've learned?

Kind Regards,

Rob Shand