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Translation - Japanese: PSoC® 3/4/5LP デバイスとコンパイラのエンディアンフォーマット - KBA91560 - Community Translated (JA)

Question:

The PSoC^® 3 Keil Compiler uses big endian format for 16- and 32-bit variables. The PSoC 3 device uses little endian format for muti-byte registers (16- and 32-bit registers). How do you swap the order of the bytes while accessing the register through the CPU and DMA? Is this applicable for PSoC 4/5LP devices that use the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) or Keil™ Microcontroller Development Kit (MDK) compilers?

Answer:

CPU Access:

The Keil Compiler provides macros (defined in cymem.a51) to access registers that internally control byte swapping. These macros must be used to access 8-, 16-, and 32-bit registers in PSoC 3 devices.

Macros for accessing registers mapped in the first 64K 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)

Macros 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 is organized in different endianness, 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. The size of the swap is determined by the SWAP_SIZE bit of the PHUB.TDMEM[0..127].ORIG_TD0 register.

• If SWAP_SIZE = 0 then the swap size is two bytes, meaning that every two bytes are endian swapped during the DMA transfer.
    The code snippet of the 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 four bytes, meaning that every four bytes are endian swapped during the DMA transfer.
    The code snippet of the 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);

PSoC 4/5LP:

PSoC 4/5LP designs use a GCC or MDK compiler that is based on little endian, unlike the PSoC 3 Keil Compiler. Therefore, DMA byte swapping must be disabled when the code is ported to a PSoC 5LP device. The same is not applicable for PSoC 4 because there is no DMA support for PSoC 4.

Refer to the DMA component datasheet, PSoC 3 Technical Reference Manual, and PSoC 5LP Technical Reference Manual for more details on DMA operation and usage.

PSoC 4 DMA (for PSoC 4 devices that support DMA) architecture is slightly different than PSoC 3/5LP DMA. There is no endian swapping in PSoC 4 DMA. For more details, refer to the PSoC 4 DMA Component Datasheet.