Hardware requirements

  • Micro USB cable

  • Two LPCXpresso54S018 boards

  • Personal Computer

Board settings

Connect SPI master on board to SPI slave on other board

MASTER_BOARD        CONNECTS TO         SLAVE_BOARD
Pin Name   Board Location     Pin Name  Board Location
MISO       J9 pin 11          MISO      J9 pin 11
MOSI       J9 pin 13          MOSI      J9 pin 13
SCK        J9 pin 9           SCK       J9 pin 9
PCS0       J9 pin 15          PCS0      J9 pin 15
GND        J9 pin 7           GND       J9 pin 7

Prepare the Demo

  1. Connect a micro USB cable between the PC host and the LPC-Link USB port (J8) on the board.

  2. Open a serial terminal on PC for JLink serial device with these settings:

    • 115200 baud rate

    • 8 data bits

    • No parity

    • One stop bit

    • No flow control

  3. Download the program to the target board.

  4. Launch the debugger in your IDE to begin running the demo.

Running the demo

This demo is an external flash plain load demo, ROM will copy image in external flash to SRAMX to run:

  1. Build the demo to generate a bin file. Note: If need to generate bin file using MCUXpresso IDE, below steps need to be followed: Set in example Properties->C/C++ Build->Settings->Build steps->Post-build steps->Edit enbable arm-none-eabi-objcopy -v -O binary “&{BuildArtifactFileName}” “&{BuildArtifactFileBaseName}.bin”

      This plainload example linked the vector table to 0x00000000, but program to external flash 0x10000000.

  2. Program the bin file to external on board flash via SEGGER J-FLASH Lite(V6.22 or higher):

    a. Open SEGGER J-FLASH Lite, select device LPC54S018.

    b. Click the ‘Erase Chip’ to erase the extrenal flash.(if can not success, press SW4 button and reset the board, and try to erase again)

    c. Select the bin data file, set the ‘.bin/Erase Start’ address to 0x10000000, then click ‘Program Device’ Note: Please use above way to program the binary file built by armgcc tool chain to external flash. For IAR, KEIL, MCUXpresso IDE, you can use the IDE tool to program the external flash.
    The following message shows in the terminal if the example runs successfully.

CMSIS SPI board2board DMA example -- Slave transfer.


 Slave example is running...


 Slave receive:
      0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9  A  B  C  D  E  F
     10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 1C 1D 1E 1F
     20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 2A 2B 2C 2D 2E 2F
     30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 3A 3B 3C 3D 3E 3F
Succeed!