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Timer DMA Burst mode (arbitrary waveform)

wh
Associate III
Posted on September 22, 2017 at 14:25

Dear all,

I'm having a problem creating a arbitrary waveform using timer 1, MCU STM32L476RG. I use STM32CubeMX (4.21.0) to generate all initialization code after which I try to start a DMA transfer from memory to the timer 1 peripheral. I'm partly successful doing this. 

I created a array of 6 words for two waveform patterns to be send to TIM1  channel  1  (TIM1_ARR, TIM1_RCR, TIM1_CCR1) This is how the basics look

uint32_t aSRC_Buffer[6] = { 100, 2, 15, 100, 8, 50 };  /// ARR, RCR, CCR1  x 2

HAL_TIM_PWM_Start(&htim1, TIM_CHANNEL_1) ;

 HAL_TIM_DMABurst_WriteStart(&htim1, TIM_DMABASE_ARR, TIM_DMA_UPDATE, (uint32_t*) aSRC_Buffer, TIM_DMABURSTLENGTH_3TRANSFERS);

With this code only the first pattern is generated. changing TIM_DMABURSTLENGTH_3TRANSFERS to TIM_DMABURSTLENGTH_6TRANSFERS does not work either (seems right if my assumption is correct, see below). 

I don't understand the relation between the complete DMA buffer size (mem) and the TIM registers update. Right now I assume that setting TIM_DMABURSTLENGTH_3TRANSFERS means the three TIM registers starting at ARR are updated. But how do I set the total buffer size to use. I have tried to set  DMA1_Channel6->CNDTR = 6;  in the HAL_TIM_Base_MspInit routine but that didn't help either. I'm lost.... Is there anyone that can explain to me what I am missing here. 

some cubemx settings are :

DMA1 -> DMA1 channel 6 -> memory to peripheral -> priority high

                Mode normal      Increment address -> memory only

                Data width word

Partly generated code is

if(htim_base->Instance==TIM1)

  {

    /* Peripheral clock enable */

    __HAL_RCC_TIM1_CLK_ENABLE();

 

    hdma_tim1_up.Instance = DMA1_Channel6;

    hdma_tim1_up.Init.Request = DMA_REQUEST_7;

    hdma_tim1_up.Init.Direction = DMA_MEMORY_TO_PERIPH;

    hdma_tim1_up.Init.PeriphInc = DMA_PINC_DISABLE;

    hdma_tim1_up.Init.MemInc = DMA_MINC_ENABLE;

    hdma_tim1_up.Init.PeriphDataAlignment = DMA_PDATAALIGN_WORD;

    hdma_tim1_up.Init.MemDataAlignment = DMA_MDATAALIGN_WORD;

    hdma_tim1_up.Init.Mode = DMA_NORMAL;

    hdma_tim1_up.Init.Priority = DMA_PRIORITY_HIGH;

    if (HAL_DMA_Init(&hdma_tim1_up) != HAL_OK)

    {

      _Error_Handler(__FILE__, __LINE__);

    }

 

    __HAL_LINKDMA(htim_base,hdma[TIM_DMA_ID_UPDATE],hdma_tim1_up);

    /* TIM1 interrupt Init */

    HAL_NVIC_SetPriority(TIM1_UP_TIM16_IRQn, 0, 0);

    HAL_NVIC_EnableIRQ(TIM1_UP_TIM16_IRQn);

}

  

Thanks in advance,

Wim

10 REPLIES 10

This doesn't work - static callback functions are not accessible from other modules. One has to patch the HAL sources.