Digi NS9215 Source address pointer Buffer length Control15 W, Control14, Control13 L, Control12 F

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Buffer descriptors The peripheral buffer data is held in buffers in external memory, linked together using buffer descriptors. The buffer descriptors are 16 bytes in length and are located contiguously in external memory.

This is the format of the buffer descriptor:

Address

 

Description

 

 

 

 

offset + 0

 

Source address

 

 

 

 

offset + 4

Reserved

 

Buffer length

 

 

 

 

offset + 8

 

Reserved

 

 

 

 

offset + C

Control

 

Status

 

 

 

 

Source address [pointer]

Buffer length

Control[15] – W

The source address pointer points to the start of the buffer in system memory. For transmit channels, the address can start on any byte boundary.

For receive channels, the address must be a 32-bit word aligned.

The buffer length is the length of the buffer in bytes, and allows a buffer size of up to 64k–1 bytes to be in a single buffer. Bits 31:16 are not used.

For receive channels, the buffer length field is updated with the actual number of bytes written to memory, as the peripheral has the ability to close the buffer early.

The Wrap (W) bit, when set, tells the DMA controller that this is the last buffer descriptor within the continuous list of descriptors. The next descriptor is found using the initial DMA channel buffer descriptor pointer. When the W bit is not set, the next buffer descriptor is found using the 16-byte offset.

Control[14] – I

The Interrupt (I) bit, when set, tells the DMA controller to issue an interrupt when the

 

buffer is closed due to normal channel completion.

Control[13] – L

This is the Last (L) bit.

 

For transmit channels, firmware sets the L bit when the current buffer is the

 

last in the packet.

 

For receive channels. hardware sets the L bit when the current buffer is closed

 

by status bits received from the peripheral device. Status bits can include

 

conditions such as a character gap timeout, character match, or error

 

condition.

Control[12] – F

This is the Full (F) bit.

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NS9215 specifications

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