STM32F103 SPI different pins does not work

Question

I am currently working on a project with LoRaWAN technology using STM32F103C8T6 microcontroller. For LoRa I am using SPI in Full-Duplex Master mode (spi1 specifically) and in CubeIDE when you activate SPI1, automatically pins PA5, PA6 and PA7 are activated (ver1):

However, PCB is designed and printed and those pins are unfortunately busy. Because, before it was planned to use other SPI1 pins (PB3, PB4, PB5) (ver2):

So, when I use ver1, all is good, LoRa connects to server and sends data without a problem. However, when I use ver2, it does not work at all. I debugged to find where is problem and found out that, SPI read fails (when version of LoRa is read, it returns 0). Thus, ASSERT fires and code is stuck in infinite loop. I could not find any reference of difference of SPI pins in the internet.

Can anyone explain the difference of these pins? And is it possible to use ver2? Thanks beforehand.

P.S. I am using HAL Library + LMIC library (for LoRa) and the configuration of SPI are the same for both ver1 and ver2. Here is code of configuration, if needed:

void MX_SPI1_Init(void)
{

  hspi1.Instance = SPI1;
  hspi1.Init.Mode = SPI_MODE_MASTER;
  hspi1.Init.Direction = SPI_DIRECTION_2LINES;
  hspi1.Init.DataSize = SPI_DATASIZE_8BIT;
  hspi1.Init.CLKPolarity = SPI_POLARITY_LOW;
  hspi1.Init.CLKPhase = SPI_PHASE_1EDGE;
  hspi1.Init.NSS = SPI_NSS_SOFT;
  hspi1.Init.BaudRatePrescaler = SPI_BAUDRATEPRESCALER_64;
  hspi1.Init.FirstBit = SPI_FIRSTBIT_MSB;
  hspi1.Init.TIMode = SPI_TIMODE_DISABLE;
  hspi1.Init.CRCCalculation = SPI_CRCCALCULATION_DISABLE;
  hspi1.Init.CRCPolynomial = 10;
  if (HAL_SPI_Init(&hspi1) != HAL_OK)
  {
    Error_Handler();
  }

}

P.S.S: I also gave this question in electronics stackexchange, but there was no answer there, so I decided to share the question here too.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 05 '19 at 09:22

After lots of tries, I found out that, remapped SPI1 does not work together with I2C1, because of I2C1-SMBA pin overlap with SP1 MOSI pin (PB5), even if you are not using SMBA. You can find about that here: STM32F103x8 errata chapter 2.8.7

So, I guess, I will use I2C2 for avoiding collision. The only change I should make on PCB would be redirecting I2C1 pins to I2C2 (2 pins), which is way better than redirecting SPI1 pins (3 pins) and other elements occupying ver1 (also 3) pins.

STM32F103 SPI different pins does not work

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