Posted on November 20, 2014 at 12:30Hi,
I found a very strange behaviour for the UARTs:
The IDLE Flag of UART4-5 will ''extinguish'' after typically 100-500msec (Baudrate 100kB and 9600).
I tried with 2 Discovery boards and with all UARTs. The ''synchronized'' USARTS 1, 2, 3, 6 work well, just the ''unsynchronized'' UART4-5 show this behaviour. For these 2 UARTS I also see a problem with the RXNE, sometimes it does not seem to come (every 100'th byte, but no regular interval).
The VERY odd thing with this IDLE flag ''extinguish'' problem: It happens only if I am in Debug mode - not if I start the Discovery without Debugger. This is really very bizarre. Anyone has an idea what is going on here? (When I search the forum for ''UART4 problem'' I recognize that some people already reported unresolved RXNE problems for UART4...).
This is the source code, you can easily try yourself, if you program another discovery to send you some bytes. I tried it with Baudrate 100k and 9600 and with or without OVER8 oversampling. It is always after 100-500msec that the IDLE Flag somehow ''disappears'' by itself - but only if the Discovery is running in Debug mode (in the following code then, after receive of a Byte the green LED will switch off after 100-500msec in Debug mode, whereas it keeps on indefinitely when I run it without Debugger (as it should ...)) (I use uVision 4.7 with ST-Link Debugger):
int main(void) {
#define LED_GREEN 0x1000
#define AF_UART1 7
#define AF_UART2 7
#define AF_UART3 7
#define AF_UART4 8
#define AF_UART5 8
#define AF_UART6 8
//PD12_GREEN LED PIN
RCC->AHB1ENR|= RCC_AHB1ENR_GPIODEN;
GPIOD->MODER|= GPIO_MODER_MODER12_0;
//UART5_Rx pin PD_2
RCC->APB1ENR|= RCC_APB1Periph_UART5;
GPIOD->MODER|= GPIO_MODER_MODER2_1; //Alternate Function (AF)
GPIOD->OSPEEDR|= GPIO_OSPEEDER_OSPEEDR2_0; //25_Mhz
GPIOD->AFR[0]|= (0x00000100 * AF_UART5); //AF_8
//UART5_Tx pin PC_12
RCC->AHB1ENR|= RCC_AHB1ENR_GPIOCEN;
GPIOC->MODER|= GPIO_MODER_MODER12_1 ; //Alternate Function (AF)
GPIOC->OSPEEDR|=GPIO_OSPEEDER_OSPEEDR12_0; //25_Mhz
GPIOC->AFR[1]|= (0x00010000 * AF_UART5); //AF_8
//UART5
UART5->BRR= (USART_BRR_DIV_Mantissa&(546<<4) ) | (USART_BRR_DIV_Fraction&7); //Baud Rate 9600
// UART5->BRR= (USART_BRR_DIV_Mantissa&(52<<4) ) | (USART_BRR_DIV_Fraction&4); //Baud Rate 100kb
UART5->CR1=USART_CR1_M|USART_CR1_RE|USART_CR1_TE | USART_CR1_OVER8;
UART5->CR1|=USART_CR1_UE;
while(1){
if(UART5->SR& USART_SR_IDLE){
GPIOD->ODR ^= LED_GREEN;
}
else{
if(GPIOD->ODR & LED_GREEN)
GPIOD->ODR&=~LED_GREEN;
}
}
}
