SPI DMA receive when CC3200MOD acts as SPI slave

[Yuzzie 0]

Hi,

I'm implementing an application for CC3200MOD in Energia 1.6.10E18 environment in which host MCU (Atmel AT76C114) sends jpeg image data (size varies from 1MB to 3MB) over SPI to CC3200MOD which then sends it over WiFi to PC. So Atmel acts as SPI master and CC3200MOD SPI slave.

The bottleneck is SPI receive rate in CC3200MOD end. I need to configure host MCU SPI clock to 10.5MHz in order to receive correct data on CC3200MOD. With higher clock rate the data gets corrupted. When receiving valid data the transfer rate is 0.17 MBps. This is way too low for our purposes.

I have understood that by using SPI DMA one could receive higher transfer rate. Are there any SPI DMA examples available for SPI slave receive in Energia environment? Does SPI DMA work on SPI slave when SPI master sends data continuously or does it require changes also for the sending procedure from SPI master?

Thanks,
Yuzzie