CC2430
Peripherals : Flash Controller
13.3.2.1
DMA Flash Write
When using DMA write operations, the data to
be written into flash is stored in the XDATA
memory space (RAM or FLASH). A DMA
channel is configured to read the data to be
written from memory, source address, and
write this data to the Flash Write Data register,
FWDATA, fixed destination address, with the
When the DMA channel is armed, starting a
flash write by setting FCTL.WRITE to 1 will
trigger the first DMA transfer (DMA and Flash
controller handles the reset of the transfer).
Figure 15 shows an example of how a DMA
channel is configured and how a DMA transfer
is initiated to write a block of data from a
location in XDATA to flash memory, assuming
the code is executed from RAM (unified
CODE).
DMA
trigger
event
FLASH
(TRIG[4:0]=10010 in DMA configuration)
enabled. Thus the Flash Controller will trigger
a DMA transfer when the Flash Write Data
register, FWDATA, is ready to receive new
data. The DMA channel should be configured
to perform single mode, byte size transfers
with source address set to start of data block
and destination address to fixed FWDATA(note
that the block size, LEN in configuration data,
must be 4 bytes aligned). High priority should
also be ensured for the DMA channel so it is
not interrupted in the write process. If
interrupted for more than 40 µs the write will
not take place as write bit, FCTL.WRITE, will
be reset.
DMA Flash Write from XDATA memory
When performing DMA flash write while
executing code from within flash memory, the
instruction that triggers the first DMA trigger
event FLASH (TRIG[4:0]=10010 DMA in
configuration) must be aligned on a 4-byte
boundary. Figure 14 shows an example of
code that correctly aligns the instruction for
triggering DMA (Note that this code is IAR
specific).
; Write flash and generate Flash DMA trigger
; Code is executed from flash memory
;
#include “ioCC2430.h”
MODULE flashDmaTrigger.s51
RSEG RCODE (2)
PUBLIC halFlashDmaTrigger
FUNCTION halFlashDmaTrigger, 0203H
halFlashDmaTrigger:
ORL FCTL, #0x02;
RET;
END;
Figure 14: Flash write using DMA from flash
CC2430 Data Sheet (rev. 2.1) SWRS036F
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