PSOC E8XXGP Device Support Library

| PSOC E8XXGP Device Support Library

Getting Started

PDL depends on the Core Library. Download it from https://github.com/Infineon/core-lib and add cy_utils.h to the include search path.

Include cy_pdl.h in your source code to use PDL.

To successfully develop software for the PSOC EDGE family of devices, you must configure the peripherals to implement desired behavior. In addition, you must configure clocks, GPIO, and interrupts, as well as route signals from one peripheral to another.

This introduction covers some high level concepts that help you understand and use the PDL to accomplish these tasks. The topics are:

- PDL Overview
- PDL Design
- Memory Allocation
- Clocks and Peripherals
- General Purpose IO (GPIO)
- Interrupts
- Power Mode Transitions
- Trigger Muxing
- Inter-Processor Communication (IPC)
- Reentrancy and Thread-safety
- Asserts

This PDL API Reference covers the peripheral drivers. Documentation on other parts of the overall software development kit are in there respective references, such as the Bootloader SDK API Reference and the Bluetooth® LE API Reference.

# PDL Overview

PDL is the software development kit for the PSOC EDGE family of devices. Although called the Peripheral Driver Library it contains much more than driver source code.

The PDL occupies the space between application code and the hardware IP blocks (peripherals). It provides driver source code you use to customize drivers for an application. To see the exact list of available drivers, expand the PDL API Reference in the left menu. It also includes all required device-specific header and startup files.

The PDL manages all register access. This reduces the need to understand register usage and bit fields, thus easing software development for the extensive set of peripherals provided for PSOC EDGE devices.

# PDL Design

PSOC EDGE devices use a multi core architecture. The hardware defines a shared register set and memory map for all peripherals. This means that, with few exceptions, either core can use any peripheral driver. For example, there is a single RTC driver used by either core, not separate CM33 and CM55 RTC drivers.

The set of available peripherals varies per device. In some cases there are multiple instances of the same peripheral; for example, multiple Serial Communication Blocks (SCB). Each peripheral instance may itself operate on multiple instances of user data.

To enable a peripheral to be used by either or both cores, as well as multiple instances of configurable peripherals operating on (potentially) multiple instances of data, the PDL implements a simple, consistent design based on three fundamental concepts.

Base Hardware Address: At the hardware level, peripheral features and behavior are controlled by registers. Each peripheral instance has a base hardware address that points to the registers for that instance. The PDL uses this base address to access the necessary registers. A device-specific header file defines the symbols for the base hardware address of each instance of each peripheral. The PDL includes the device-specific header file in the devices folder: <PDL directory>/devices/include.

Each such file defines a symbol that represents a pointer to the base hardware address for each instance of each peripheral on the device. Use this symbol in your code. The next snippet shows the symbols for instances of the SCB peripheral on this device, which supports nine SCB instances:

The header file contains similar definitions for each peripheral.

Configuration Structure: Each peripheral instance is configurable. Modify values in a PDL configuration structure to change behavior to fit design requirements. The PDL then manages register access using the base hardware address.

Context Structure: A PDL driver may require memory to perform operations. A driver does not allocate memory for this purpose. Firmware allocates the required memory by declaring an instance of a context structure. The address of this variable is passed in function calls. The PDL defines all necessary context structures.

The PDL manages the contents of the context variable. Firmware does not read or write the values of the fields in a context variable. In effect, firmware provides a scratch pad in memory for the PDL driver to do its work. Firmware must ensure that a context variable remains in scope when in use. Typically a context variable is declared as static, or as a global variable.

Many PDL API function calls require a parameter representing one or more of these three concepts. The precise details vary per peripheral, but the design is consistent. There are three commonly-named parameters in the PDL, used to support this design.

Common PDL Parameters

Parameter | Data Type | Purpose
--- | --- | ---
`base` | <peripheral>_Type* | Base hardware address for an instance of a peripheral
`config` | cy_stc_<peripheral>_config_t* | A structure with configuration information for a peripheral
`context` | cy_stc_<peripheral>_context_t* | A structure declared by firmware to allocate memory for a peripheral

In addition, all functions follow this naming convention: Cy_<Peripheral>_<FunctionName>().

Firmware must initialize and enable a driver before using it. The PDL API has functions for the purpose. Some peripherals may not implement one or more of these common functions because they aren’t needed for that particular peripheral.

Common PDL Functions

Name | Purpose | Example
--- | --- | ---
Cy_<Peripheral>_Init() | Initialize a peripheral, typically based on a config structure | Cy_SCB_UART_Init()
Cy_<Peripheral>_DeInit() | de-initialize a peripheral | Cy_SCB_UART_DeInit()
Cy_<Peripheral>_Enable() | turn on the peripheral | Cy_SCB_UART_Enable()
Cy_<Peripheral>_Disable() | turn off the peripheral | Cy_SCB_UART_Disable()

Return Status Code: Each driver has a unique return status enumeration type - cy_en_<peripheral>_status_t. The type is used by functions within the driver to indicate the return status. Drivers return success status code with a value of 0. The status code consists of the following fields:

- The higher 14 bits identify the driver that is returning status.
- The 2 bits after, indicates the status type: 0 for information, 1 for warning, and 2 for error.
- The lower 16 bits contain the actual returned status.

Example of return status type:

Note
  It is possible for one driver to call another driver and return the status code from that other driver. For instance, for PSoC™ 64 devices the SysPm and SysClk drivers use PRA driver functionality. If there is an error in the PRA driver, the SysPm or SysClk driver may return the PRA driver status. The value returned always identifies the driver that is the source of the error. Refer to the driver description for details.

# Memory Allocation

A direct effect of the context structure described in the PDL Design section is that the PDL drivers do not dynamically allocate memory. The user allocates the memory required by the driver, by declaring a context structure.

# Clocks and Peripherals

PSOC EDGE devices have several source clocks and one or more phase lock loops (PLL). The source clocks and clock dividers can be configured in firmware or via the device configurator based on design requirements. The clocks and clock tree are documented in the Clocking System chapter of the Technical Reference Manual (TRM).

A peripheral can only be clocked by a peripheral clock divider.

The ModusToolbox™ Device Configurator provides a friendly user interface for managing clocks on the System and Peripheral-Clocks tabs. The Device Configurator generates the required code based upon your design (<BSP Directory>/GeneratedSource/cycfg_system.c/.h and cycfg_clocks.c/.h files correspondently).

If you create your design without the Device Configurator you must manage the clock configuration via code you write. The PDL provides the System Clock (SysClk) driver for this purpose.

# GPIO

The PSOC EDGE I/O system provides the interface between the CPU core and peripheral components to the outside world. With a PSOC EDGE device, firmware can route most signals to most pins, which greatly simplifies circuit design and board layout.

The GPIO pins are grouped into ports; a port has a maximum of eight GPIOs. The high-speed I/O matrix (HSIOM) is a set of high-speed multiplexers that route internal CPU and peripheral signals to and from GPIOs. HSIOM allows GPIOs to be shared with multiple functions and multiplexes the pin connection to a particular peripheral selected by the user. See the I/O Subystem chapter of the TRM for full technical details.

Each pin has several characteristics, such as drive mode, slew rate, and buffer mode. You can configure pins at the Pins tab of the ModusToolbox™ Device Configurator tool.

Firmware can configure and modify a pin at run time as well. The PDL provides the General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) driver to assist. Firmware can initialize, read, write, set, clear, or invert the state of a pin, get or clear the interrupt state on the pin, and more.

# Interrupts

A PSOC EDGE device supports many system and peripheral interrupts. These are processed by the Nested Vector Interrupt Controller (NVIC) of the individual core. On the Cortex® M33/M55, system interrupt source 'n' is directly connected to the corresponding IRQn. The NVIC takes care of enabling/disabling individual interrupt IRQs, priority resolution, and communication with the CPU core.

Interrupts are set up at the system level for any peripheral that handles an interrupt. The PDL provides the System Interrupt (SysInt) driver to assist in configuring interrupts. To connect an interrupt service routine (ISR) to an interrupt signal, initialize the system interrupt with a configuration structure (containing the interrupt number and priority), and provide the address of the ISR. Various drivers have support for setting, clearing, and masking interrupts, or to specify a callback routine.

# Power Mode Transitions

The System Power Management driver (System Interrupt SysPM) implements a callback mechanism to handle power mode transitions. This mechanism allows any driver to perform any operation required to prepare for the specific power mode, or to abort the transition. Power mode transition callbacks are maintained as a linked list. The driver calls them in order, either first to last, or last to first, as appropriate.

Every driver concerned with entering or returning from a low-power state must register callback functions with SysPM. If there is any order dependence among the drivers in your firmware, register the callbacks in the order you require. For example, callbacks that configure global resources, such as clock frequencies, should be registered last.

If your firmware does not register any SysPM callbacks, the device just executes the power mode transition.

See the System Power Management (SysPM) documentation for details.

# Trigger Muxing

A design may require that the output from one peripheral triggers behavior in another peripheral. For example, a SPI (SCB) peripheral block receives data. After the data is received, a signal from the SCB triggers a DMA channel to transfer the received data to a memory buffer.

The PSOC EDGE trigger multiplexer block implements a collection of multiplexers that can connect any trigger signal from any peripheral to any other peripheral. To support this the hardware implements an input layer and an output layer. The input layer has reduction multiplexer groups, which have as input the trigger signals coming from different peripheral blocks. The reduction multiplexer routes these signals to an intermediate trigger signal. The output side uses that intermediate trigger as its input, and uses a distribution multiplexer to send that signal to one or more peripherals. The design also supports a software trigger for any signal.

The PDL provides the Trigger Multiplexer (TrigMux) driver to enable this. To route a trigger signal from one peripheral in the PSOC™ to another, firmware configures both a reduction multiplexer and a distribution multiplexer, to define where the signal comes from, and where it goes to. The software trigger triggers all peripherals connected to that output signal.

# Inter-Processor Communication (IPC)

In a dual-core system, care must be taken to ensure that the two cores don’t access the same resource simultaneously. The IPC hardware block provides the functionality for multiple processors to communicate and synchronize their activities.

The PDL provides the Inter-Process Communication (IPC) driver to enable this.

The PSOC EDGE devices use Pipe for IPC. A Pipe is typically a full-duplex communication channel between CPU cores. A pipe allows a single conduit to transfer messages or data to and from multiple processes or CPUs. A pipe has two endpoints, one on each core. Each endpoint contains a dedicated IPC channel and an interrupt. The interrupt handles both notify and release events for the endpoint. Each endpoint has clients. A client is a process that receives a message and operates on the data in that message. A pipe can service an arbitrary number of clients on either endpoint. This design enables any number of processes on the sending core to put arbitrary data into a single pipe, destined for one or more recipients. The data in the pipe is limited to a 32-bit value, which is a pointer to data of arbitrary complexity. The IPC driver also implements a semaphore mechanism, so firmware can control access to shared resources. See the Inter-Processor Communication chapter of the TRM.

# Reentrancy and Thread-safety

The PDL was designed to support multithreaded operations. Most of the PDL API functions are reentrant by satisfying the following conditions:

- Do not use internal static or global variables in a non-atomic way, unless a variable is allocated to a specific instance of a function. That is, each thread can have its own data area identifiable via function context parameter, so a single instance of the function can be shared by multiple threads.
- Do not access a hardware resource in a non-atomic way. Access to a shared resource is protected using critical sections.
- Static or global variables are set only at initialization, and then are read only.
- Do not call non-reentrant functions.

Some drivers are not thread-safe because they contain internal static state of the driver/peripheral. You can arrange your application code or use your own locking mechanism to ensure that functions in these drivers are called by only one thread at a time. Call initialization functions once to initialize the peripheral before creating any additional thread that will use the peripheral.

- EFUSE
- Profile
- Startup
- SysClk
- SysLib
- SysPm

# Asserts

The System Library files define an assert mechanism that is used extensively by the PDL for parameter checking. It is enabled by default. It is recommended that asserts remain enabled when debugging firmware.

Firmware can use the same assert mechanism. The default assertion handler Cy_SysLib_AssertFailed() is weakly linked. Firmware can override that function to implement custom assert handling.