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Peripherals

The EDGE field in the MODE register allows swapping Left and Right, so that Left will be sampled on rising

edge, and Right on falling.

The PDM module uses EasyDMA to store the samples coming out from the filters into one buffer in RAM.

Depending on the mode chosen in the OPERATION field in the MODE register, memory either contains

alternating left and right 16-bit samples (Stereo), or only left 16-bit samples (Mono).

To ensure continuous PDM sampling, it is up to the application to update the EasyDMA destination

address pointer as the previous buffer is filled.

The continuous transfer can be started or stopped by sending the START and STOP tasks. STOP becomes

effective after the current frame has finished transferring, which will generate the STOPPED event. The

STOPPED event indicates that all activity in the module are finished, and that the data is available in RAM

(EasyDMA has finished transferring as well). Attempting to restart before receiving the STOPPED event

may result in unpredictable behaviour.

6.10.3 Decimation filter

In order to convert the incoming data stream into PCM audio samples, a decimation filter is included in

the PDM interface module.

The input of the filter is the two-channel PDM serial stream (with left channel on clock high, right channel

on clock low), its output is 2 × 16-bit PCM samples at a sample rate 64 times lower than the PDM clock

rate.

The filter stage of each channel is followed by a digital volume control, to attenuate or amplify the output

samples in a range of -20 dB to +20 dB around the default (reset) setting, defined by GPDM,default. The gain

is controlled by the GAINL and GAINR registers.

As an example, if the goal is to achieve 2500 RMS output samples (16 bit) with a 1 kHz 90 dBA signal

into a -26 dBFS sensitivity PDM microphone, the user will have to sum the PDM module's default gain

( GPDM,default ) and the gain introduced by the microphone and acoustic path of his implementation (an

attenuation would translate into a negative gain), and adjust GAINL and GAINR by this amount. Assuming

that only the PDM module influences the gain, GAINL and GAINR must be set to -GPDM,default dB to achieve

the requirement.

With GPDM,default=3.2 dB, and as GAINL and GAINR are expressed in 0.5 dB steps, the closest value to

program would be 3.0 dB, which can be calculated as:

GAINL = GAINR = (DefaultGain - (2 * 3))

Remember to check that the resulting values programmed into GAINL and GAINR fall within MinGain and

MaxGain.

6.10.4 EasyDMA

Samples will be written directly to RAM, and EasyDMA must be configured accordingly.

The address pointer for the EasyDMA channel is set in SAMPLE.PTR register. If the destination address set

in SAMPLE.PTR is not pointing to the Data RAM region, an EasyDMA transfer may result in a HardFault or

RAM corruption. See Memory on page 16 for more information about the different memory regions.

DMA supports Stereo (Left+Right 16-bit samples) and Mono (Left only) data transfer, depending on setting

in the OPERATION field in the MODE register. The samples are stored little endian.

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