non-blocking read from sd card on Teensy 4.1 ?

[RichardFerraro]

Is it possible to do non-blocking reads from the sd-card on the teensy 4.1?

thanks,

Richie

 

[PAAUX4]

Yes. Via DMA.

 

[RichardFerraro]

Interesting and challenging I would imagine.
In the latest version of Teensyduino, Paul has sped up SdFat.
After a bit of work weaning off of SD.h, I am hesitant to dive
into learning how to do DMA from SdFat.

Is there some access to this technology like a library?

thanks,

Richie

 

[RichardFerraro]

Just cam across Bill Greiman;s library at https://platformio.org/lib/show/322/SdFat/examples?file=TeensySdioDemo.ino

Looks simple enough. I'll check it out.

thanks again

 

[WMXZ]

Just cam across Bill Greiman;s library at https://platformio.org/lib/show/322/SdFat/examples?file=TeensySdioDemo.ino

Looks simple enough. I'll check it out.

thanks again

Note, the same library SdFat is in use with Teensyduino.
Using DMA requires still to wait for conclusion of read. Not sure if SdFat makes it easy the do this outside Library.
I know ELM CHaN's FatFs allows this, but that is less used in Arduino world.

 

[PAAUX4]

The SD card for Teensy 4.1 is over the SDIO interface on LPSPI1. Each SPI port has a 16 word FIFO buffer. You can configure this to trigger an interrupt when it receives data. This interrupt can then be used to initiate a DMA transfer from the buffer to wherever. I think when this DMA is complete, it can send a trigger back to the SPI bus to transfer more data, independent of the main processor.

There is a DMA library that might be able to help with the DMA side of things.

Also, the manual is a great source of information, but it's long and complicated: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/IMXRT1060RM_rev2.pdf

Something things you might want to look at:
Receive Data Interrupt Enable
48.3.5.1 Output Triggers
Interrupt IRQ 32
Receive Data DMA Enable

It won't be easy probably. Good luck.