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CPU1-FMC and CPU2-FMC contain an embedded single error correction and double error detection (SECDED) module. SECDED, when enabled, provides the capability to screen out memory faults. SECDED can detect and correct single-bit data errors and detect address errors/double-bit data errors. For every 64 bits of Flash/OTP memory data (aligned on a 64-bit memory boundary) that is programmed, eight ECC check bits have to be calculated and programmed in ECC memory space. Refer to the device data sheet for the Flash/OTP memory ECC memory-map. SECDED works with a total of eight user-calculated error correction code (ECC) check bits associated with each 64-bit wide data word and the corresponding 128-bit memory-aligned address. Users must program ECC check bits along with Flash data. TI recommends using the AutoEccGeneration option available in Plugin/API to program ECC. Users can use the F021 Flash API to calculate and program ECC data along with Flash data. Flash API uses hardware ECC logic in the device to generate the ECC data for the given Flash data. The Flash Plugin, the Flash programming tool integrated with Code Composer Studio IDE, uses Flash API to generate and program ECC data).
Figure 3-19 illustrates the ECC logic inputs and outputs.
During an instruction fetch or a data read operation, the 19 most-significant address bits (3 least-significant bits of address are not considered), together with the 64-bit data/8-bit ECC read-out of Flash banks/ECC memory-map area, pass through the SECDED logic and the eight checkbits are produced in FMC. These eight calculated ECC check bits are then XORed with the stored check bits (user programmed check bits) associated with the address and the read data. The 8-bit output is decoded inside the SECDED module to determine one of three conditions:
If the SECDED logic finds a single-bit error in the address field, then the error is considered to be a non-correctable error.
This ECC (SECDED) feature is enabled at reset. The ECC_ENABLE register can be used to configure( enable/disable) the ECC feature. The ECC for the application code must be programmed. There are two SECDED modules in each FMC. Out of the 128-bit data (aligned on a 128-bit memory boundary) read from the bank/OTP memory address, the lower 64-bits of data and corresponding 8 ECC bits (read from user programmable ECC memory area) are fed as inputs to one SECDED module along with 128-bit aligned 19-bit address from where data has been read. The upper 64- bits of data and corresponding 8 ECC bits are fed as inputs to another SECDED module in parallel, along with 128-bit aligned 19-bit address. Each of the SECDED modules evaluate their inputs and determine if there is any single-bit data error or double-bit data error/address error.
ECC logic is bypassed when the 64 data bits and the associated ECC bits fetched from the bank are either all ones or zeros.