dac.write_timed() does not work with NUCLEO_G474RE
The example code from micropython document does not work with NUCLEO_G474RE.
import math
from array import array
from pyb import DAC
# create a buffer containing a sine-wave, using half-word samples
buf = array('H', 2048 + int(2047 * math.sin(2 * math.pi * i / 128)) for i in range(128))
# output the sine-wave at 400Hz
dac = DAC(1, bits=12)
dac.write_timed(buf, 400 * len(buf), mode=DAC.CIRCULAR)
The DAC1 output of PA4 pin (A2 pin on arduino connector) shows no waveform.
After a little research, I found the root cause is that DMA_PDATAALIGN_WORD should be used for the "DMA + DAC" operation of STM32G4 cpu.
Here is my modification of dac.c to make dac.write_timed() work with NUCLEO_G474RE.
STATIC void dac_start_dma(uint32_t dac_channel, const dma_descr_t *dma_descr, uint32_t dma_mode, uint32_t bit_size, uint32_t dac_align, size_t len, void *buf) {
uint32_t dma_align;
if (bit_size == 8) {
dma_align = DMA_MDATAALIGN_BYTE | DMA_PDATAALIGN_BYTE;
} else {
#if defined(STM32G4)
dma_align = DMA_MDATAALIGN_HALFWORD | DMA_PDATAALIGN_WORD;
#else
dma_align = DMA_MDATAALIGN_HALFWORD | DMA_PDATAALIGN_HALFWORD;
#endif
}
stmhal: write_timed method on pyb.DAC(2) causes crash
The issue was reported by user @brutor on the Micro Python forum a few days ago:
http://forum.micropython.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=87&sid=b9426c315f226545e6aaab8a57f4d28f#p404
I was able to confirm that a command like the following (assuming buf_x is already initialized)
from pyb import DAC
dac1 = DAC(1)
dac1.write_timed(buf_x, 1000, mode=DAC.CIRCULAR)
works fine for DAC(1), but crashes for DAC(2). All other methods (noise, triangle, write) appear to work for dac1 and dac2; note that I can't easily confirm that the analog output is being set properly as the DAC lines on my current test hardware are somewhat buried and hidden.