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//! # Embassy nRF HAL
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//!
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//! HALs implement safe, idiomatic Rust APIs to use the hardware capabilities, so raw register manipulation is not needed.
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//!
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//! The Embassy nRF HAL targets the Nordic Semiconductor nRF family of hardware. The HAL implements both blocking and async APIs
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//! for many peripherals. The benefit of using the async APIs is that the HAL takes care of waiting for peripherals to
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//! complete operations in low power mod and handling interrupts, so that applications can focus on more important matters.
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//!
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//! ## EasyDMA considerations
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//!
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//! On nRF chips, peripherals can use the so called EasyDMA feature to offload the task of interacting
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//! with peripherals. It takes care of sending/receiving data over a variety of bus protocols (TWI/I2C, UART, SPI).
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//! However, EasyDMA requires the buffers used to transmit and receive data to reside in RAM. Unfortunately, Rust
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//! slices will not always do so. The following example using the SPI peripheral shows a common situation where this might happen:
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//!
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//! ```no_run
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//! // As we pass a slice to the function whose contents will not ever change,
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//! // the compiler writes it into the flash and thus the pointer to it will
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//! // reference static memory. Since EasyDMA requires slices to reside in RAM,
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//! // this function call will fail.
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//! let result = spim.write_from_ram(&[1, 2, 3]);
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//! assert_eq!(result, Err(Error::DMABufferNotInDataMemory));
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//!
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//! // The data is still static and located in flash. However, since we are assigning
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//! // it to a variable, the compiler will load it into memory. Passing a reference to the
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//! // variable will yield a pointer that references dynamic memory, thus making EasyDMA happy.
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//! // This function call succeeds.
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//! let data = [1, 2, 3];
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//! let result = spim.write_from_ram(&data);
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//! assert!(result.is_ok());
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//! ```
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//!
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//! Each peripheral struct which uses EasyDMA ([`Spim`](spim::Spim), [`Uarte`](uarte::Uarte), [`Twim`](twim::Twim)) has two variants of their mutating functions:
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//! - Functions with the suffix (e.g. [`write_from_ram`](spim::Spim::write_from_ram), [`transfer_from_ram`](spim::Spim::transfer_from_ram)) will return an error if the passed slice does not reside in RAM.
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//! - Functions without the suffix (e.g. [`write`](spim::Spim::write), [`transfer`](spim::Spim::transfer)) will check whether the data is in RAM and copy it into memory prior to transmission.
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//!
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//! Since copying incurs a overhead, you are given the option to choose from `_from_ram` variants which will
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//! fail and notify you, or the more convenient versions without the suffix which are potentially a little bit
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//! more inefficient. Be aware that this overhead is not only in terms of instruction count but also in terms of memory usage
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//! as the methods without the suffix will be allocating a statically sized buffer (up to 512 bytes for the nRF52840).
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//!
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//! Note that the methods that read data like [`read`](spim::Spim::read) and [`transfer_in_place`](spim::Spim::transfer_in_place) do not have the corresponding `_from_ram` variants as
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//! mutable slices always reside in RAM.
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#![no_std]
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#![cfg_attr(
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feature = "nightly",
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feature(type_alias_impl_trait, async_fn_in_trait, impl_trait_projections)
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)]
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#![cfg_attr(feature = "nightly", allow(incomplete_features))]
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#![doc = include_str!("../README.md")]
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#![warn(missing_docs)]
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#[cfg(not(any(
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feature = "nrf51",
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