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Chapter 28 Fault Collection Unit (FCU)
MPC5602P Microcontroller Reference Manual, Rev. 4
Freescale Semiconductor
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Chapter 28
Fault Collection Unit (FCU)
28.1
Introduction
The Fault Collection Unit (FCU) module provides functional safety to the device.
28.1.1
Overview
The FCU provides a central capability to collect faults reported by the individual modules of the device.
It represents the minimum blocking unit to develop a coherent safety strategy for the chassis family.
Selected critical faults are reported to the external device via output pins, if no recovery is provided by the
device. The operation of the FCU is independent from the CPU. The FCU provides an independent fault
reporting mechanism even in case the CPU behavior is abnormal. The FCU always starts up in init mode.
As long as the FCU remains in init mode, testing of the FCU logic (for dormant fault detection) can be
performed under software control.
The FCU is developed to increase the level of safety of the system/MCU level.
Functional safety features of the FCU include:
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It is an independent module: If other control modules are behaving abnormally, the user can still
trigger actions to prevent a critical situation.
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Collection and external reporting of faults occurring on the device
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Centralized fault collection
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Each fault cause can be treated in a different way
— No action
— Alarm—allows hardware or software to recover from fault
— Fault—communicates directly to an external device that something went wrong
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Three different output protocols available
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Possible to inject fake faults on user request during initialization phase to test the peripheral
(dormant fault detection)
28.1.1.1
General description
The FCU is logically divided in three blocks:
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Input unit—captures faults reported from the device
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Control unit—implemented by a finite state machine (see
for details)
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Output unit—generates output signals