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ashah.16
ashah.16
Associate II
November 14, 2023
Question

STM32U585 I2C SCL remains low and I2C hangs

  • November 14, 2023
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Hi,
I have two STM32L0 (slave) and STM32U585 (master) MCUs. I have no issue when Slave transmits data to Master. But, if Master transmits signal to Slave, it sends all the 9 clock pulses with address bits, but then the SCL remains low while SDA returns high.
I see my code hangs at this point and never continues, until I restart the MCU:

*/* Write data to TXDR */
hi2c->Instance->TXDR = *hi2c->pBuffPtr;*

This is located in HAL_I2C_Master_Transmit() function.
It seems to be a common issue with either STM32 or HAL libraries. Wondering if anyone could find a fix for that.

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4 replies

Pavel A.
Pavel A.
November 14, 2023

There's something confusing in your description. How the slave can transmit without the master addresses it first?

> my code hangs at this point and never continues

Please break into the debugger (click the "pause" icon). Where it will stop?

 

ashah.16
ashah.16Author
Associate II
November 14, 2023

I pointed to two tasks I did

1- Master receive data from Slave => I had no issue with this part. Basically, Master provides clock and address to slave, then slave puts data right on the clock edges.

2- Master transmits data to Slave => This is expected to be much simpler. However, When my Master transmits clk and address successfully, it does not continue to transmit data. The SCL line remains low after 9 pulses (for address transmission) while SDA gets back to high.

When I pause the debugger, it stops at nowhere. Right after executing that line, I see described signals on my oscilloscope and the debugger hangs there.

From this testing and debugging, I can conclude that there are no hardware-related causes such as pull-up resistors, wiring, etc. Because the other direction works fine.

David Littell
David Littell
Senior II
November 14, 2023

This sounds like a slave-side problem with writes.

ashah.16
ashah.16Author
Associate II
November 15, 2023

Slave is receiving data only. I just have this command in my Master:

HAL_I2C_Master_Transmit(&hi2c3, (uint16_t)I2C_ADDRESS, (uint8_t *)aTxBuffer, 2, 100);

and this one in my Slave:

HAL_I2C_Slave_Receive(&hi2c1, (uint8_t *)aRxBuffer, 2, 100);

the problem is Slave is not blocked but my Master execution is totally blocked on that line and SCL line remains low.

Do you have any suggestion for debugging further? I tried different number of data, but it had no impact.

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