SLAZ221P October 2012 – May 2021 MSP430F4618
DMA Module
Functional
Read-modify-write instructions may corrupt DMA address registers
When a 16-bit wide read-modify-write instruction (such as add.w and sub.w) is directly used on a DMA address register (DMAxSA or DMAxDA), the register contents will get corrupted.
1. Do not use 16-bit wide read-modify-write instructions on DMA address registers. Instead, in case address calculations are necessary, do the calculations first, and then assign the result to the DMA address registers.
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2. Use 20-bit wide read-modify-write instructions (such as addx.a, subx.a) on the DMA address registers if needed.