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Peripheral Access

Naming conventions and optional features for accessing peripherals. More...

Macros

#define _VAL2FLD(field, value)
 Mask and shift a bit field value for assigning the result to a peripheral register. More...
 
#define _FLD2VAL(field, value)
 Extract from a peripheral register value the a bit field value. More...
 

Description

The section below describes the naming conventions, requirements, and optional features for accessing device specific peripherals. Most of the rules also apply to the core peripherals. The Device Header File <device.h> contains typically these definition and also includes the core specific header files.

The definitions for Peripheral Access can be generated using the CMSIS-SVD System View Description for Peripherals. Refer to SVDConv.exe for more information.

Each peripheral provides a data type definition with a name that is composed of:

Examples:

The data type definition uses standard C data types defined by the ANSI C header file <stdint.h>.

typedef struct
{
union {
__IM uint8_t RBR; /* Offset: 0x000 (R/ ) Receiver Buffer Register */
__OM uint8_t THR; /* Offset: 0x000 ( /W) Transmit Holding Register */
__IOM uint8_t DLL; /* Offset: 0x000 (R/W) Divisor Latch LSB */
uint32_t RESERVED0;
};
union {
__IOM uint8_t DLM; /* Offset: 0x004 (R/W) Divisor Latch MSB */
__IOM uint32_t IER; /* Offset: 0x004 (R/W) Interrupt Enable Register */
};
union {
__IM uint32_t IIR; /* Offset: 0x008 (R/ ) Interrupt ID Register */
__OM uint8_t FCR; /* Offset: 0x008 ( /W) FIFO Control Register */
};
__IOM uint8_t LCR; /* Offset: 0x00C (R/W) Line Control Register */
uint8_t RESERVED1[7];
__IM uint8_t LSR; /* Offset: 0x014 (R/ ) Line Status Register */
uint8_t RESERVED2[7];
__IOM uint8_t SCR; /* Offset: 0x01C (R/W) Scratch Pad Register */
uint8_t RESERVED3[3];
__IOM uint32_t ACR; /* Offset: 0x020 (R/W) Autobaud Control Register */
__IOM uint8_t ICR; /* Offset: 0x024 (R/W) IrDA Control Register */
uint8_t RESERVED4[3];
__IOM uint8_t FDR; /* Offset: 0x028 (R/W) Fractional Divider Register */
uint8_t RESERVED5[7];
__IOM uint8_t TER; /* Offset: 0x030 (R/W) Transmit Enable Register */
uint8_t RESERVED6[39];
__IM uint8_t FIFOLVL; /* Offset: 0x058 (R/ ) FIFO Level Register */
} LPC_UART_TypeDef;

To access the registers of the UART defined above, pointers to this register structure are defined. If more instances of a peripheral exist, the variables have a postfix (digit or letter) that identifies the peripheral.

Example: In this example LPC_UART2 and LPC_UART3 are two pointers to UARTs defined with above register structure.

#define LPC_UART2 ((LPC_UART_TypeDef *) LPC_UART2_BASE )
#define LPC_UART3 ((LPC_UART_TypeDef *) LPC_UART3_BASE )
Note
  • The prefix LPC is optional.

The registers in the various UARTs can now be referred in the user code as shown below:

val = LPC_UART2->DR // is the data register of UART1.

Minimal Requirements

To access the peripheral registers and related function in a device, the files device.h and core_cm#.h define as a minimum:

These definitions allow accessing peripheral registers with simple assignments.


Optional Features

Optionally, the file device.h may define:


Register Bit Fields

For Core Register, macros define the position and the mask value for a bit field. It is recommended to create such definitions also for other peripheral registers.

Example:

Bit field definitions for register CPUID in SCB (System Control Block).

/* SCB CPUID Register Definitions */
#define SCB_CPUID_IMPLEMENTER_Pos 24U
#define SCB_CPUID_IMPLEMENTER_Msk (0xFFUL << SCB_CPUID_IMPLEMENTER_Pos)
#define SCB_CPUID_VARIANT_Pos 20U
#define SCB_CPUID_VARIANT_Msk (0xFUL << SCB_CPUID_VARIANT_Pos)
#define SCB_CPUID_ARCHITECTURE_Pos 16U
#define SCB_CPUID_ARCHITECTURE_Msk (0xFUL << SCB_CPUID_ARCHITECTURE_Pos)
#define SCB_CPUID_PARTNO_Pos 4U
#define SCB_CPUID_PARTNO_Msk (0xFFFUL << SCB_CPUID_PARTNO_Pos)
#define SCB_CPUID_REVISION_Pos 0U
#define SCB_CPUID_REVISION_Msk (0xFUL /*<< SCB_CPUID_REVISION_Pos*/)

The macros _VAL2FLD(field, value) and _FLD2VAL(field, value) enable access to bit fields.

Macro Definition Documentation

#define _FLD2VAL (   field,
  value 
)
Parameters
fieldname of bit field.
valuevalue of the register. This parameter is interpreted as an uint32_t type.

The macro _FLD2VAL uses the #define's _Pos and _Msk of the related bit field to extract the value of a bit field from a register.

Example:

id = _FLD2VAL(SCB_CPUID_REVISION, SCB->CPUID);
#define _VAL2FLD (   field,
  value 
)
Parameters
fieldname of bit field.
valuevalue for the bit field. This parameter is interpreted as an uint32_t type.

The macro _VAL2FLD uses the #define's _Pos and _Msk of the related bit field to shift bit-field values for assigning to a register.

Example:

SCB->CPUID = _VAL2FLD(SCB_CPUID_REVISION, 0x3) | _VAL2FLD(SCB_CPUID_VARIANT, 0x3);