SPI slave with DMA. How do I tell DMA to fetch new data into hspi->pTxBuffPtr?

[arnold_w]

Posted on May 23, 2017 at 12:35

I am working with 2 stm32f4-discovery development boards, one is an SPI master and the other is an SPI slave. My packet size is larger than 2 bytes so I am forced to use DMA controllers. My slave has a buffer, called transmitBuffer, with data to be transferred to the master and this gets assigned to DMA1_Stream4->M0AR:

uint8_t transmitDMAbuffer[4] = {0, 1, 2, 3};

DMA1_Stream4->M0AR = (uint32_t) transmitDMAbuffer;

Now, what if I change my mind and want to transmit the following instead:

transmitDMAbuffer[0] = 4;

transmitDMAbuffer[1] = 5;

transmitDMAbuffer[2] = 6;

transmitDMAbuffer[3] = 7;

How do I then tell the DMA controller to refresh the data in its 'cache' (I am running without the FIFO)? If I change the data like above and don't inform the DMA controller about the new data, then it will transmit 0, 1, 6, 7 to the master.