Is the STM32 DMA destination address restricted?

Question

I'm using a stm32f446 and would like to use the TIM4_CH2 request with the DMA1 in Memory-to-peripheral mode to transfer data from an array to the ODR (output data register) of a GPIO port.

For some reason it only works with some destination addresses (and not with the &GPIOx->ODR address), even through the reference manual states at 9.3.6 Source, Destination and transfer modes:

Both source and destination transfers can address peripherals and memories in the entire 4 GB area, at addresses comprised between 0x0000 0000 and 0xFFFF FFFF

Is there any further restriction I should be aware off?

HAL_TIM_OC_Start(&htim4, TIM_CHANNEL_2);


uint16_t buffer[] = {1,2,3,4,5};
uint32_t dataLength = sizeof(buffer)/sizeof(buffer[0]);
uint32_t srcAddress = (uint32_t) buffer;
//uint32_t dstAddress = (uint32_t) &(TIM4->CCR2); // Works
//uint32_t dstAddress = (uint32_t) &(TIM4->CCR4); // Works
//uint32_t dstAddress = (uint32_t) &(TIM5->CCR4); // Doesn't work
uint32_t dstAddress = (uint32_t) &(GPIOC->ODR); // Doesn't work


HAL_DMA_Start_IT(&hdma_tim4_ch2, srcAddress, dstAddress, dataLength);
__HAL_TIM_ENABLE_DMA(&htim4, TIM_DMA_CC2);

The DMA initializing code:

hdma_tim4_ch2.Instance = DMA1_Stream3;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.Channel = DMA_CHANNEL_2;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.Direction = DMA_MEMORY_TO_PERIPH;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.PeriphInc = DMA_PINC_DISABLE;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.MemInc = DMA_MINC_ENABLE;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.PeriphDataAlignment = DMA_PDATAALIGN_HALFWORD;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.MemDataAlignment = DMA_MDATAALIGN_HALFWORD;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.Mode = DMA_NORMAL;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.Priority = DMA_PRIORITY_LOW;
hdma_tim4_ch2.Init.FIFOMode = DMA_FIFOMODE_DISABLE;
HAL_DMA_Init(&hdma_tim4_ch2);

__HAL_LINKDMA(htim_base,hdma[TIM_DMA_ID_CC2],hdma_tim4_ch2);

Timer configuration:

TIM_ClockConfigTypeDef sClockSourceConfig;
TIM_MasterConfigTypeDef sMasterConfig;
TIM_OC_InitTypeDef sConfigOC;

htim4.Instance = TIM4;
htim4.Init.Prescaler = 0;
htim4.Init.CounterMode = TIM_COUNTERMODE_UP;
htim4.Init.Period = 72;
htim4.Init.ClockDivision = TIM_CLOCKDIVISION_DIV1;
HAL_TIM_Base_Init(&htim4);

sClockSourceConfig.ClockSource = TIM_CLOCKSOURCE_INTERNAL;
HAL_TIM_ConfigClockSource(&htim4, &sClockSourceConfig);

HAL_TIM_OC_Init(&htim4);

sMasterConfig.MasterOutputTrigger = TIM_TRGO_OC2REF;
sMasterConfig.MasterSlaveMode = TIM_MASTERSLAVEMODE_DISABLE;
HAL_TIMEx_MasterConfigSynchronization(&htim4, &sMasterConfig);

sConfigOC.OCMode = TIM_OCMODE_TOGGLE;
sConfigOC.Pulse = 0;
sConfigOC.OCPolarity = TIM_OCPOLARITY_HIGH;
sConfigOC.OCFastMode = TIM_OCFAST_DISABLE;
HAL_TIM_OC_ConfigChannel(&htim4, &sConfigOC, TIM_CHANNEL_2);

Answer 1

The DMA addresses are restricted by the memory architecture (See Chapter 2, Memory and bus architecture in the reference manual). The following figure from the reference manual illustrates the problem of using DMA1:

The problem can be solved by simply using DMA2 (and another request according to the DMA2 request mapping table). E.g. DMA2 with the Timer 1 channel 1 request will just work fine:

HAL_TIM_OC_Start(&htim1, TIM_CHANNEL_1);

uint16_t buffer[] = {0,1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048};
uint32_t dataLength = sizeof(buffer)/sizeof(buffer[0]);
uint32_t srcAddress = (uint32_t) buffer;
uint32_t dstAddress = (uint32_t) &(GPIOC->ODR);

HAL_DMA_Start_IT(&hdma_tim1_ch1, srcAddress, dstAddress, dataLength);
__HAL_TIM_ENABLE_DMA(&htim1, TIM_DMA_CC1);