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Raspberry Pi 3 to the ST25R3911B-DISCO issue

Omar.ABDELMALEK
Associate II

I connected a Raspberry Pi 3 to the ST25R3911B-DISCO and used the Linux driver suggested by ST.

 

However, I haven't been able to successfully detect the IRQ despite following the setup.

 

1.jpg2.jpgAny suggestions on troubleshooting this issue?

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Ulysses HERNIOSUS
ST Employee

Hi,

 

well, you are not showing a ST25R3911B-DISCO but a STEVAL-2543916B board. 

The error message you are getting indicates that in your system somebody else uses the GPIO7. This should also happen without the 3916B board connected. I think you need to look on your Linux to see the usage of the different GPIOs.

BR, Ulysses

i have install new image in my rasp without any other program 

Jasper Preston
ST Employee

Hi,

I have already seen that. It happened with newer Linux kernel and SPI driver that controls by default GPIO8 for SPI0 CS0 and GPIO7 for SPI0 CS1 (e.g modinfo spidev: v5.5.61).
There is a conflict with the ST25R NFC demo that uses ST25R_INT_PIN on GPIO7 as interrupt line between the reader and the microcontroller.

To overcome this, configure the SPI driver to control a different GPIO than GPIO7 for the Chip Select signal.
This can be done with the dtoverlay command.

$ dtoverlay -a ; list all overlay available

$ dtoverlay -h spi0-1cs
Name:   spi0-1cs

Info:   Only use one CS pin for SPI0

Usage:  dtoverlay=spi0-1cs,<param>=<val>

Params: cs0_pin                 GPIO pin for CS0 (default 8)
        no_miso                 Don't claim and use the MISO pin (9), freeing
                                it for other uses.


Edit the boot configuration to use this overlay, add the following line:

$ sudo /boot/config.txt
dtoverlay=spi0-1cs
$ reboot

 

The parameter cs0_pin may be needed in case the driver assigns CE0 to another pin.
e.g. dtoverlay spi0-1cs,cs0_pin=6


Inspect the GPIO configuration

See http://wiringpi.com and use their convenient tool to inspect the GPIOs:

See http://wiringpi.com/ and use their convenient tool to inspect the GPIO:
$ gpio readall

 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 4B--+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 | BCM | wPi |   Name  | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name    | wPi | BCM |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 |     |     |    3.3v |      |   |  1 || 2  |   |      | 5v      |     |     |
 |   2 |   8 |   SDA.1 |   IN | 1 |  3 || 4  |   |      | 5v      |     |     |
 |   3 |   9 |   SCL.1 |   IN | 1 |  5 || 6  |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   4 |   7 | GPIO. 7 |   IN | 1 |  7 || 8  | 1 | IN   | TxD     | 15  | 14  |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   |  9 || 10 | 1 | IN   | RxD     | 16  | 15  |
 |  17 |   0 | GPIO. 0 |   IN | 0 | 11 || 12 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 1 | 1   | 18  |
 |  27 |   2 | GPIO. 2 |   IN | 0 | 13 || 14 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |  22 |   3 | GPIO. 3 |   IN | 0 | 15 || 16 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 4 | 4   | 23  |
 |     |     |    3.3v |      |   | 17 || 18 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 5 | 5   | 24  |
 |  10 |  12 |    MOSI | ALT0 | 0 | 19 || 20 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   9 |  13 |    MISO | ALT0 | 0 | 21 || 22 | 0 | IN   | GPIO. 6 | 6   | 25  |
 |  11 |  14 |    SCLK | ALT0 | 0 | 23 || 24 | 1 | OUT  | CE0     | 10  | 8   |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   | 25 || 26 | 0 | IN   | CE1     | 11  | 7   | <= *: Check that 'CE1' GPIO pin 7 shows direction 'IN', to receive interrupt signal
 |   0 |  30 |   SDA.0 |   IN | 1 | 27 || 28 | 1 | IN   | SCL.0   | 31  | 1   |
 |   5 |  21 | GPIO.21 |   IN | 1 | 29 || 30 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |   6 |  22 | GPIO.22 |   IN | 1 | 31 || 32 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.26 | 26  | 12  |
 |  13 |  23 | GPIO.23 |   IN | 0 | 33 || 34 |   |      | 0v      |     |     |
 |  19 |  24 | GPIO.24 |   IN | 0 | 35 || 36 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.27 | 27  | 16  |
 |  26 |  25 | GPIO.25 |   IN | 0 | 37 || 38 | 0 | IN   | GPIO.28 | 28  | 20  |
 |     |     |      0v |      |   | 39 || 40 | 1 | IN   | GPIO.29 | 29  | 21  |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+----++----+---+------+---------+-----+-----+
 | BCM | wPi |   Name  | Mode | V | Physical | V | Mode | Name    | wPi | BCM |
 +-----+-----+---------+------+---+---Pi 4B--+---+------+---------+-----+-----+


*: Check that 'CE1' GPIO pin 7 shows direction 'IN', to receive interrupt signal

 

Hope this helps.

Br,

Jasper