STM32 DAC Trigger

Question

I am Trying to use the DAC output on my STM32L053R8 NUCLEO Board. I generate the corresponding Sin-Wave values to set the DAC Values like this.

    // Resolution for DAC
        for(i=0; i<= 249; i++)
        {
                dacVal[i]= 2048*(sin(i*2*pi/250)+1);
        }           

In the Main function i use the while loop to write the values to the DAC.

  while (1)
  { 
        for(i=0; i<=249; i++)
        {           
            HAL_DAC_SetValue(&hdac, DAC1_CHANNEL_1,DAC_ALIGN_12B_R, dacVal[i]);
        }
        i=0;        
  } 

The Result is a nice Sine Wave with a peak-peak Voltage of 3.3V and a Frequency of 200Hz. I generated the init code with CubeMX.

Now i want to increase the Frequency of the DAC output. I initialized the DAC with this Function:

static void MX_DAC_Init(void)
{


  DAC_ChannelConfTypeDef sConfig = {0};

  /*DAC Initialization*/

  hdac.Instance = DAC;
  if (HAL_DAC_Init(&hdac) != HAL_OK)
  {
    Error_Handler();
  }
  /*DAC channel OUT1 config*/

  sConfig.DAC_Trigger = DAC_TRIGGER_NONE;
  sConfig.DAC_OutputBuffer = DAC_OUTPUTBUFFER_ENABLE;
  if (HAL_DAC_ConfigChannel(&hdac, &sConfig, DAC_CHANNEL_1) != HAL_OK)
  {
    Error_Handler();
  }
}

And my TIM6 like this:

static void MX_TIM6_Init(void)
{
  TIM_MasterConfigTypeDef sMasterConfig = {0};

  htim6.Instance = TIM6;
  htim6.Init.Prescaler = 2;
  htim6.Init.CounterMode = TIM_COUNTERMODE_UP;
  htim6.Init.Period = 1000;
  htim6.Init.AutoReloadPreload = TIM_AUTORELOAD_PRELOAD_DISABLE;
  if (HAL_TIM_Base_Init(&htim6) != HAL_OK)
  {
    Error_Handler();
  }
  sMasterConfig.MasterOutputTrigger = TIM_TRGO_ENABLE;
  sMasterConfig.MasterSlaveMode = TIM_MASTERSLAVEMODE_DISABLE;
  if (HAL_TIMEx_MasterConfigSynchronization(&htim6, &sMasterConfig) != HAL_OK)
  {
    Error_Handler();
  }
}

The code generates a Sin-Wave like i need it. But if i change

sConfig.DAC_Trigger = DAC_TRIGGER_NONE;

to

sConfig.DAC_Trigger = DAC_TRIGGER_T6_TRGO;

There is no Output anymore. I Assume that the Output is triggered by the Timer TIM6 but its somehow not working like that. I think there is something wrong with my Timer init function. At the end i just want to put my ouput frequency of the Sin-Wave to 40khz.

Answer 1

STMCubeMX has generated the TIM6 Init code for you but it has not started the timer, you need to call the HAL_TIM_Base_Start() function after calling MX_TIM6_Init so that TIM6 CR1 has CEN bit set which starts the timer running.