11.8 XDMAC Software Requirements

  • Write operations to channel registers are not be performed in an active channel after the channel is enabled. If any channel parameters must be reprogrammed, this can only be done after disabling the XDMAC channel.
  • XDMAC_CSAx and XDMAC_CDAx channel registers must be programmed with a byte, half-word or word aligned address depending on the Channel x Data Width field (DWIDTH) of the XDMAC Channel x Configuration Register. When a memory-to-peripheral transfer is performed, the XDMAC_CSAx address register has no alignment requirement.
  • When a memory-to-memory transfer is performed, configure the field XDMAC_CCx.PERID (where ‘x’ is the index of the channel used for the transfer) to peripheral ID 127 (refer to the table “Peripheral Identifiers”).
  • When XDMAC_CC.INITD is set to 0, XDMAC_CUBC.UBLEN and XDMAC_CNDA.NDA field values are unreliable when the descriptor is being updated. The following procedure applies to get the buffer descriptor identifier and the residual bytes: 
    Read XDMAC_CNDAx.NDA(nda0)
Read XDMAC_CCx.INITD(initd0)
Read XDMAC_CCx.INITD(initd0)
Read XDMAC_CUBCx.UBLEN(ublen) 
Read XDMAC_CCx.INITD(initd1)
Read XDMA_CNDAx.NDA(nda1) 
If (nda0 == nda1 && initd0 == 1 && initd1 == 1).
Then the ublen is correct, the buffer id is nda.
Else retry
    See the figure below.
Figure 11-6. INITD Timing Diagram