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Problems with DMA transfer on FX3 and CyUSB driver

Sil posted on 16 Nov 2011 1:00 AM PST
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I still encounter instable USB 3.0 connection when using the slave fifo interface http://www.cypress.com/?app=forum&id=167&rID=55620 with auto DMA transfer on the FX3.

Now I found that if I am using the BulkAutoLoop (C++) Example from Cypress together with 2 kByte Packet size per transfer, no data is received the CyUSB driver crashes. At some point no data is received and then the driver crashes. When I send more than 2 kByte per transfer there is no problem. The DMA buffer on the FX3 is set up to 1x1 kByte.

I suspect that there is a problem with the auto DMA transfer on the FX3 since the behavior changes if I use larger DMA buffer size than 1x1kByte. Also I do not see this problems when using manual DMA transfer mode. With larger DMA buffer size, 2 kByte data packets also fail and I need to send 4 or more kByte. At the same time there has to be an issue in the CyUSB driver since it always crashes when no data is received in the BulkAutoLoop example. Sometimes I even need to restart my computer, sometimes it is good enough to reload the FW on the FX3 Eval Board.

I am using the following HW setup:

FX3 Eval Board Revision “May 2011”, Beta3 SDK

OS: Windows 7, 64 bit

USB Host Controller: ASMedia USB 3.0 controller (Asus P8Z68-V Motherboard)

 

Thanks for help.

 

Regards

Silvio

 

 

 

Re: Problems with DMA transfer on FX3 and CyUSB driver

aasi posted on 16 Nov 2011 09:32 PM PST
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We do test the configurations before we release the utilities. I've not seen this kind of an error scenario due to combination of driver and firmware. Please create a tech support case (MyAccount --> MyCases) so that we can have a deeper look at the issue.

Regards,

Anand



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