Quadspi Memory-Mapped Mode - ST STM32L4x6 Reference Manual

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15.3.6

QUADSPI memory-mapped mode

When configured in memory-mapped mode, the external SPI device is seen as an internal
memory.
It is forbidden to access QUADSPI Flash bank area before having properly configured and
enabled the QUADSPI peripheral.
No more than 256MB can addressed even if the Flash memory capacity is larger.
If an access is made to an address outside of the range defined by FSIZE but still within the
256MB range, then an AHB error is given. The effect of this error depends on the AHB
master that attempted the access:
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If it is the Cortex
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If it is a DMA, a DMA transfer error is generated and the corresponding DMA channel is
automatically disabled.
Byte, halfword, and word access types are all supported.
Support for execute in place (XIP) operation is implemented, where the QUADSPI
anticipates the next microcontroller access and load in advance the byte at the following
address. If the subsequent access is indeed made at a continuous address, the access will
be completed faster since the value is already pre-fetched.
By default, the QUADSPI never stops its prefetch operation, keeping the previous read
operation active with nCS maintained low, even if no access to the Flash memory occurs for
a long time. Since Flash memories tend to consume more when nCS is held low, the
application might want to activate the timeout counter (TCEN = 1, QUADSPI_CR[3]) so that
nCS is released after a period of TIMEOUT[15:0] (QUADSPI_LPTR) cycles have elapsed
without any access since when the FIFO becomes full with prefetch data.
BUSY goes high as soon as the first memory-mapped access occurs. Because of the
prefetch operations, BUSY does not fall until there is a timeout, there is an abort, or the
peripheral is disabled.
15.3.7 QUADSPI Flash memory configuration
The device configuration register (QUADSPI_DCR) can be used to specify the
characteristics of the external SPI Flash memory.
The FSIZE[4:0] field defines the size of external memory using the following formula:
Number of bytes in Flash memory = 2
FSIZE+1 is effectively the number of address bits required to address the Flash memory.
The Flash memory capacity can be up to 4GB (addressed using 32 bits) in indirect mode,
but the addressable space in memory-mapped mode is limited to 256MB.
When the QUADSPI executes two commands, one immediately after the other, it raises the
chip select signal (nCS) high between the two commands for only one CLK cycle by default.
If the Flash memory requires more time between commands, the chip select high time
(CSHT) field can be used to specify the minimum number of CLK cycles (up to 8) that nCS
must remain high.
The clock mode (CKMODE) bit indicates the CLK signal logic level in between commands
(when nCS = 1).
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