I2S on NRF9160

RE: I2S on NRF9160

MLU — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:08:04 GMT

Hi
was your problem finally solved?

RE: I2S on NRF9160

duxinglang — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 05:48:42 GMT

Hi fastfox,

Is your i2s working now? I am developing the i2s function, but I also encountered the problem of the program crashing. I debug it and find that it crashed when calling the function "nrf_i2s_task_trigger". I see that this is just an assignment operation, I don't understand why it would crash, can you give me some advice?

NRF_STATIC_INLINE void nrf_i2s_task_trigger(NRF_I2S_Type * p_reg,
                                            nrf_i2s_task_t task)
{
    *((volatile uint32_t *)((uint8_t *)p_reg + (uint32_t)task)) = 0x1UL;
}

RE: I2S on NRF9160

fastfox — Tue, 26 May 2020 13:06:24 GMT

I am far from expert in this matter, but IIRC default config uses 16bit width and I believe your mic uses 24bits. I had the definitions like this:

  nrfx_i2s_config_t config = NRFX_I2S_DEFAULT_CONFIG(I2S_SCK_PIN, I2S_WS_PIN, NRFX_I2S_PIN_NOT_USED, NRFX_I2S_PIN_NOT_USED, I2S_SD_PIN);
  config.mode = NRF_I2S_MODE_MASTER;
  config.mck_setup = NRF_I2S_MCK_32MDIV21;     // MCK running at 32MHz/21 = 1.5238095MHz
  config.channels = NRF_I2S_CHANNELS_LEFT;     // We only have one channel(mono)
  config.sample_width = NRF_I2S_SWIDTH_24BIT;  // Mic uses 24 bit words
  config.ratio = NRF_I2S_RATIO_96X;            // This becomes LRCK frequency aka sample rate?. MCK/96 = 15.873ksamples/s = Under low power limit
  config.format = NRF_I2S_FORMAT_I2S;

with this mic: https://invensense.tdk.com/products/ics-43434/

RE: I2S on NRF9160

Nahom Abraha — Tue, 19 May 2020 20:33:53 GMT

Hi fastfox,

I am trying to do the same thing, but I have a don't receive any dat. I am using this microphone (https://www.adafruit.com/product/3421).The microphone works with a raspberry pi so the microphone works.I don't know how to fix this. I think the problem is the datahandler.I connected
LRCL with pin 8
DOUT with 9
BCLK with pin 10

Here is my code can you help me?

#include <nrf.h>
#include <zephyr.h>
#include <device.h>
#include <sys/printk.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <nrfx_i2s.h>
#include <string.h>

#include "microphone.h"
#include "button.h"
#include "udp.h"

#define  I2S_BUFFER_SIZE 1024
#define  SCK_PIN    10 
#define  SDIN_PIN   9
#define  LRCK_PIN   8
#define  MCK_PIN    7
#define  SDOUT_PIN  6 

int counter;
static uint32_t rx_buffer[I2S_BUFFER_SIZE]={0};
static uint32_t tx_buffer[I2S_BUFFER_SIZE]={0};
static nrfx_i2s_buffers_t buffer;   
 
ISR_DIRECT_DECLARE(i2s_isr_handler) 
{
  nrfx_i2s_irq_handler();
  ISR_DIRECT_PM();

  return 1; 
}

static void data_handler(nrfx_i2s_buffers_t const * p_released, uint32_t status)
{ 
  if (NRFX_I2S_STATUS_NEXT_BUFFERS_NEEDED == status)
  {
    printk("%u\n",status);
    nrfx_err_t err = nrfx_i2s_next_buffers_set(&buffer);
    if (err != NRFX_SUCCESS ) {
        printk("next buffer failed with error code:%d\n",err);
      } 
  }

  if(p_released != NULL){
    if (p_released->p_rx_buffer != NULL)
    {
        //uint8_t* data=p_released->p_rx_buffer;
        //data[0] == p_released->p_rx_buffer[0]
        uint8_t data[I2S_BUFFER_SIZE]={0};
        memcpy(data,p_released->p_rx_buffer, sizeof(p_released->p_rx_buffer));
        for(int i=0; i <1024; i++)
        {
            printk("data: 0x%hhX\n",data[i]);
            printk("data2:0x%hhX\n",p_released->p_rx_buffer[i]);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

void recordaudio(void)
{
  printk("Start i2s configuration\n");
  nrfx_err_t err;
  uint16_t buffer_size=2048;
  nrfx_i2s_config_t config = NRFX_I2S_DEFAULT_CONFIG(SCK_PIN,LRCK_PIN,MCK_PIN,SDOUT_PIN,SDIN_PIN);
  
  buffer.p_rx_buffer=rx_buffer;
  buffer.p_tx_buffer=tx_buffer;

 //config.irq_priority = NRFX_I2S_DEFAULT_CONFIG_IRQ_PRIORITY;
// config.mode = NRF_I2S_MODE_MASTER;
// config.mck_setup = NRF_I2S_MCK_32MDIV8;
// config.channels = NRF_I2S_CHANNELS_LEFT;
// config.sample_width = NRF_I2S_SWIDTH_16BIT;
// config.ratio = NRF_I2S_RATIO_32X;
// config.format = NRF_I2S_FORMAT_I2S;
// config.alignment=NRF_I2S_ALIGN_LEFT;
//  
 IRQ_DIRECT_CONNECT(I2S_IRQn, 0,i2s_isr_handler, 0);

  err = nrfx_i2s_init(&config, data_handler);
  if (err != NRFX_SUCCESS)
  {
      printk("i2s init failed:%d\n",err);
  }
  printk("i2s_start\n");
  err=nrfx_i2s_start(&buffer,buffer_size, 0);
  if(err!=NRFX_SUCCESS )
    {
     printk("i2s start failed with error:%d\n",err);
    }
  while(1)
     {
      printk("recording\n");
      k_sleep(2000);
     }
    printk("\n stop recording \n");
    nrfx_i2s_stop();
    nrfx_i2s_uninit();
}

Thank you in advance

RE: I2S on NRF9160

fastfox — Fri, 24 Apr 2020 05:36:28 GMT

It looks like the key for not to crash was a combination of

IRQ_DIRECT_CONNECT(I2S_IRQn, 0,
                     i2s_isr_handler, 0);
                     
ISR_DIRECT_DECLARE(i2s_isr_handler) {
  nrfx_i2s_irq_handler();
  ISR_DIRECT_PM(); /* PM done after servicing interrupt for best latency
			  */

  return 1; /* We should check if scheduling decision should be made */
}

and

config.mck_setup = NRF_I2S_MCK_32MDIV21;

to the application. And

#ifdef NRF_I2S
		PERIPH("NRF_I2S", NRF_I2S, 1),
#endif

to the SDK

I thought that I don't need MCK as I don't have the wire connected either, but apparently I do need it. And now that I know that, documentation also states that "This generator always needs to be enabled when in Master mode"

RE: I2S on NRF9160

fastfox — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 07:59:14 GMT

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../i2s_2D00_prj.zip

I tried to make a project with nothing but crashing I2S in it. I am running the SW in custom board, didn't check what the pins are in dev board.

RE: I2S on NRF9160

fastfox — Mon, 20 Apr 2020 06:09:15 GMT

I am not sure if I understand you perfectly. I believe steps 1,2,3 an 4 are more or less obsolete as I2S is already included, compiled and i think I actually have the I2S_NS in use(0x40028000UL)

I tried to use the IRQ define macros, but it still crashes at start.

I try to strip my program to I2S only so that I can send it here

RE: I2S on NRF9160

Sigurd — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 12:37:00 GMT

[quote user=""]I have understood that zephyr I2S APIs do not support NRF9160 ATM. Is that true?[/quote]

Correct. The work to add support for nRFx devices in the Zephyr I2S API is on-going, as part of this PR.

For now, you will need to use the approach shown in this post (replace PDM with I2S).

If that approach does not work, upload your project here, and I can take closer look.

RE: I2S on NRF9160

fastfox — Fri, 17 Apr 2020 10:13:27 GMT

Adding

#ifdef NRF_I2S
		PERIPH("NRF_I2S", NRF_I2S, 1),
#endif

to spm.c, like here https://github.com/loopshore/fw-nrfconnect-nrf/commit/8d73f53763cace4a9e52aacaac35289d3495c895 gets me a bit forward. Now you can actually call init. Program crashes when I2S is started though. To this line https://github.com/zephyrproject-rtos/hal_nordic/blob/master/nrfx/drivers/src/nrfx_i2s.c#L277

Any help and answers still appreciated.