Custom Signal generation

using PWM and DMA

Video Series: Hands-On with STM32 Timers

Nicolas FILLON
 Objective

• Generate Custom Signal using PWM and DMA

• Output PWM on 1 channel CH1 of a STM32 Timer
 Equipment utilized

NUCLEO-H745ZI-Q Micro USB Cable Oscilloscope

 Software Tools

STM32CubeIDE
Custom Signal generation using PWM and DMA

• Generate Custom PWM signal using

Timer + DMA
• Transfer sine wave data to CCR reg
• Duty cycle defined by CCR register
• Using the DMA keeps the Cortex-M
core free
 Sine wave table

• Sine wave data computed in a spreadsheet

• Normalize sine table data to use in CCR register
• Optionally, sine wave can be computed by STM32H7 on the fly
• Timer Feature Comparison
Table in STM32H745
reference manual (RM0399)
Configure Clock frequency (480/240 MHz)
 STM32CubeIDE

• Select Cortex-M7
• Select PWM Generation CH1 for
Channel 1
Select Cortex-M7 & Configure TIM4
DMA Configuration
 STM32CubeIDE final pin configuration

GPIO Pin PWM Channel

PD12 TIM4 CH1

 Nucleo Pinout

Channel 1
 Sine data array

• Create sine buffer array for DMA

• Replace any CCR = 0 in spreadsheet table with CCR = 1
 Enable D & I cache and flush D cache
• Enable D & I cache

• Flush D cache
Start function to transfer data from RAM to timer
 Placement of all memory in D1 domain – Other IDE

• https://community.st.com/s/article/FAQ-DMA-is-not-working-on-STM32H7-devices
Placement of all memory in D1 domain – IAR IDE setup
 Result (Oscilloscope output)

Yellow: TIM4 CH1

(GPIO Pin PD12)
 Result (zoomed in)

Yellow: TIM4 CH1

(GPIO Pin PD12)
 Result (Displayed on Logic analyzer)

CH1 (GPIO Pin PD12)

CH2 (GPIO Pin PD13)

CH3 (GPIO Pin PD14)

 Links

• AN4013: https://www.st.com/resource/en/application_note/dm00042534-stm32-
crossseries-timer-overview-stmicroelectronics.pdf
• STM32H745 reference
manual: https://www.st.com/resource/en/reference_manual/dm00176879-
stm32h745755-and-stm32h747757-advanced-armbased-32bit-mcus-
stmicroelectronics.pdf
• STM32H745 datasheet: https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/stm32h745zg.pdf
• Memory domain configuration: https://community.st.com/s/article/FAQ-DMA-is-not-
working-on-STM32H7-devices
 Thank you

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