Figure 61. An Example Of A Ddr Command In Quad Mode - ST STM32L4 5 Series Reference Manual

Quad-SPI interface (QUADSPI)
Dual-flash mode
When the DFM bit (QUADSPI_CR[6]) is 1, the QUADSPI is in dual-flash mode, where two
external quad SPI Flash memories (FLASH 1 and FLASH 2) are used in order to
send/receive 8 bits (or 16 bits in DDR mode) every cycle, effectively doubling the throughput
as well as the capacity.
Each of the Flash memories use the same CLK and optionally the same nCS signals, but
each have separate IO0, IO1, IO2, and IO3 signals.
Dual-flash mode can be used in conjunction with single-bit, dual-bit, and quad-bit modes, as
well as with either SDR or DDR mode.
The Flash memory size, as specified in FSIZE[4:0] (QUADSPI_DCR[20:16]), should reflect
the total Flash memory capacity, which is double the size of one individual component.
If address X is even, then the byte which the QUADSPI gives for address X is the byte at the
address X/2 of FLASH 1, and the byte which the QUADSPI gives for address X+1 is the
byte at the address X/2 of FLASH 2. In other words, bytes at even addresses are all stored
in FLASH 1 and bytes at odd addresses are all stored in FLASH 2.
When reading the Flash memories status registers in dual-flash mode, twice as many bytes
should be read compared to doing the same read in single-flash mode. This means that if
each Flash memory gives 8 valid bits after the instruction for fetching the status register,
then the QUADSPI must be configured with a data length of 2 bytes (16 bits), and the
QUADSPI will receive one byte from each Flash memory. If each Flash memory gives a
status of 16 bits, then the QUADSPI must be configured to read 4 bytes to get all the status
bits of both Flash memories in dual-flash mode. The least-significant byte of the result (in
the data register) is the least-significant byte of FLASH 1 status register, while the next byte
is the least-significant byte of FLASH 2 status register. Then, the third byte of the data
register is FLASH 1 second byte, while the forth byte is FLASH 2 second byte (in the case
that the Flash memories have 16-bit status registers).
An even number of bytes must always be accessed in dual-flash mode. For this reason, bit
0 of the data length field (QUADSPI_DLR[0]) is stuck at 1 when DRM = 1.
In dual-flash mode, the behavior of FLASH 1 interface signals are basically the same as in
normal mode. FLASH 2 interface signals have exactly the same waveforms as FLASH 1
during the instruction, address, alternate-byte, and dummy-cycles phases. In other words,
each Flash memory always receives the same instruction and the same address. Then,
during the data phase, the BK1_IOx and BK2_IOx buses are both transferring data in
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Figure 61. An example of a DDR command in quad mode

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