Double-Buffered Endpoints - ST STM32F101 series Reference Manual

Universal serial bus full-speed device interface (USB)
processed. After the received data is processed, the application software should set the
STAT_RX bits to '11 (Valid) in the USB_EPnR, enabling further transactions. While the
STAT_RX bits are equal to '10 (NAK), any OUT request addressed to that endpoint is
NAKed, indicating a flow control condition: the USB host will retry the transaction until it
succeeds. It is mandatory to execute the sequence of operations in the above mentioned
order to avoid losing the notification of a second OUT transaction addressed to the same
endpoint following immediately the one which triggered the CTR interrupt.
Control transfers
Control transfers are made of a SETUP transaction, followed by zero or more data stages,
all of the same direction, followed by a status stage (a zero-byte transfer in the opposite
direction). SETUP transactions are handled by control endpoints only and are very similar to
OUT ones (data reception) except that the values of DTOG_TX and DTOG_RX bits of the
addressed endpoint registers are set to 1 and 0 respectively, to initialize the control transfer,
and both STAT_TX and STAT_RX are set to '10 (NAK) to let software decide if subsequent
transactions must be IN or OUT depending on the SETUP contents. A control endpoint must
check SETUP bit in the USB_EPnR register at each CTR_RX event to distinguish normal
OUT transactions from SETUP ones. A USB device can determine the number and
direction of data stages by interpreting the data transferred in the SETUP stage, and is
required to STALL the transaction in the case of errors. To do so, at all data stages before
the last, the unused direction should be set to STALL, so that, if the host reverses the
transfer direction too soon, it gets a STALL as a status stage.
While enabling the last data stage, the opposite direction should be set to NAK, so that, if
the host reverses the transfer direction (to perform the status stage) immediately, it is kept
waiting for the completion of the control operation. If the control operation completes
successfully, the software will change NAK to VALID, otherwise to STALL. At the same time,
if the status stage will be an OUT, the STATUS_OUT (EP_KIND in the USB_EPnR register)
bit should be set, so that an error is generated if a status transaction is performed with not-
zero data. When the status transaction is serviced, the application clears the STATUS_OUT
bit and sets STAT_RX to VALID (to accept a new command) and STAT_TX to NAK (to delay
a possible status stage immediately following the next setup).
Since the USB specification states that a SETUP packet cannot be answered with a
handshake different from ACK, eventually aborting a previously issued command to start
the new one, the USB logic doesn't allow a control endpoint to answer with a NAK or STALL
packet to a SETUP token received from the host.
When the STAT_RX bits are set to '01 (STALL) or '10 (NAK) and a SETUP token is
received, the USB accepts the data, performing the required data transfers and sends back
an ACK handshake. If that endpoint has a previously issued CTR_RX request not yet
acknowledged by the application (i.e. CTR_RX bit is still set from a previously completed
reception), the USB discards the SETUP transaction and does not answer with any
handshake packet regardless of its state, simulating a reception error and forcing the host to
send the SETUP token again. This is done to avoid losing the notification of a SETUP
transaction addressed to the same endpoint immediately following the transaction, which
triggered the CTR_RX interrupt.
23.4.3

Double-buffered endpoints

All different endpoint types defined by the USB standard represent different traffic models,
and describe the typical requirements of different kind of data transfer operations. When
large portions of data are to be transferred between the host PC and the USB function, the
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