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Endian format in PSoC 3 device vs PSoC 3's KEIL Compiler

Endian format in PSoC 3 device vs PSoC 3's KEIL Compiler

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Question: PSoC 3 Keil Compiler uses big endian format for 16-bit and 32-bit variables, however the PSoC 3 device uses little endian format for muti-byte registers (16-bit and 32-bit register). How do I swap the order of the bytes while accessing the register through CPU and DMA?

 

Answer:

CPU Access:
KEIL Compiler provides APIs (defined in cymem.a51) to access registers that take care of byte swapping. These APIs must be used to access 8, 16 and 32-bit registers in PSoC3 device.

APIs for accessing registers mapped in the first 64Kbytes of XDATA space

  •   CY_GET_REG8(addr)       
  •   CY_SET_REG8(addr, value)
  •   CY_GET_REG16(addr)  
  •   CY_SET_REG16(addr, value)
  •   CY_GET_REG24(addr)  
  •   CY_SET_REG24(addr, value)
  •   CY_GET_REG32(addr)  
  •   CY_SET_REG32(addr, value)

APIs for accessing registers mapped above the first 64K of XDATA space.

  •   CY_GET_XTND_REG8(addr)  
  •   CY_SET_XTND_REG8(addr, value)
  •   CY_GET_XTND_REG16(addr)  
  •   CY_SET_XTND_REG16(addr, value)
  •   CY_GET_XTND_REG24(addr)  
  •   CY_SET_XTND_REG24(addr, value)
  •   CY_GET_XTND_REG32(addr)  
  •   CY_SET_XTND_REG32(addr, value)

DMA Access:
When the source and destination data organized in different endian-ness, the DMA transaction descriptor can be programmed to have the bytes endian swapped while in transit.

The SWAP_EN bit of the PHUB.TDMEM[0..127].ORIG_TD0 register specifies whether an endian swap should occur. If SWAP_EN is 1 then an endian swap will occur and the size of the swap is determined by the SWAP_SIZE bit of PHUB.TDMEM[0..127].ORIG_TD0 register.
 

  •   If SWAP_SIZE = 0 then the swap size is 2 bytes, meaning that every 2 bytes are endian swapped during the DMA transfer. The code snippet of TD configuration API to enable byte swapping for 2bytes data is given below.


                       CyDmaTdSetConfiguration(myTd, 2, myTd, TD_TERMOUT0_EN | TD_SWAP_EN);

  •   If SWAP_SIZE = 1 then the swap size is 4 bytes, meaning that every 4 bytes are endian swapped during the DMA transfer. The code snippet of TD configuration API to enable byte swapping for 4bytes data is given below.


                         CyDmaTdSetConfiguration(myTd, 4, myTd, TD_TERMOUT0_EN | TD_SWAP_EN | TD_SWAP_SIZE4);

Note: PSoC 5 compiler uses little endian unlike PSoC 3 KEIL Compiler. Hence the DMA byte swapping must be disabled when the code is ported to PSoC 5 device.

Refer to DMA component datasheet and PSoC 3/5 Technical Reference manual for more details on DMA operation and usage.

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