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NXP LPC18xx series CMSIS based CAN gateway

Hi guys!

We're moving from NXP's LPC175x MCU to LPC18xx MCU. On LPC175x we use both CAN controllers making some kind of gateway between 2 CAN networks. The logic is quite simply, any frame coming from CAN0 network is transferred to CAN1 network and any frame coming from CAN1 network goes to CAN0 network. The setup is quite simple too, all IDs are accepted on both controllers (acceptance filters are not used). LPC175x devices have triple CAN Tx buffer on each controller so everything works just fine even at high network loads.

Now it appears that on LPC18xx series the CAN controllers are quite different, they gone for "message-objects" setup with message memory map. So we're trying to learn how to use them in our application. And we kinda stuck now. We got the CMSIS based CAN example coming for MCB1800 Keil board, using Keil v5 environment. Got rid of real time OS and moved few things around the CMSIS driver.

The idea is to create a RX message object using  ObjectSetFilter(1, ARM_CAN_FILTER_ID_MASKABLE_ADD, ARM_CAN_STANDARD_ID(0x1FFU), 0U); We're supposing this will cover all 11bits frame IDs. And it looks like we're able to receive all ID from 1 to 1FF.

Then we're trying to recreate our triple Tx buffer by allocating 3 Tx message-objects for this purpose. Then the logic is simple,  getting Rx interrupt coming from CAN0 Rx message-object, picking up frame data, setting up Rx flag to indicate the new data available then in the main loop transmit the data through CAN1 controller. Same for CAN1 controller, get the data and send all through CAN0. Main loop is just a while(1){ read the flag / send the message } for test purposes.

All this seems to work but we have some important frame loss somewhere in between. This never happened with LPC175x series MCUs. And honestly, we cannot believe that the LPC18xx with double operating clock frequency cannot move frames between both controllers fast enough! Something is definitely wrong with our approach and all this message-object setup. We're thinking the single Rx message object could be the reason but no idea how to create multiple ones with same mask. Would you, please, suggest the direction to dig?

Thanks all!   

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