DMA enabled ADC with FreeRTOS

[jephua]

Posted on August 19, 2014 at 05:39

I enabled ADC with DMA as such:

With the DMA continuous requests, the program will just loop in DMA1_Channel1_IRQHandler and the FreeRTOS thread will never run. Does anyone have any idea how to resolve this? I have already tried setting the NVIC configuration to level 3 for the DMA 1 Channel 1 global interrupt... Thanks! #stm32l0-adc-dma

[bluevault]

Posted on July 13, 2015 at 18:43

I have the same issue. Did you have any luck solving it?

[Tesla DeLorean]

Posted on July 13, 2015 at 19:00

Ok, well then you need to consider the conversion rate and quantity. If you do ONE sample, and it occurs every 30-40 machine cycles, the machine is going to saturate into and out of the interrupt handler.

So, a) pace the conversions at a realistic rate you can actually process them, b) do enough conversions before processing, thereby decimating the interrupt loading.The normal way to do this would be to have a large buffer which you can bisect in a ping/pong fashion with the DMA HT and TC interrupts providing the End-Of-Conversion signal for the block of samples. You'd configure a timer to trigger the conversions at a desired rate, say 44.1 KHz or whatever.If you just want the ADC+DMA to load data into a variable or array in the background, so that whenever you read the data it has the most current values, do you need to interrupt at all?