Tightly-coupled SRAM
5-2
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5.1
ARM946E-S SRAM requirements
The ARM946E-S tightly-coupled SRAM is built from blocks of ASIC library compiled
SRAM. The instruction SRAM (I-SRAM) and data SRAM (D-SRAM) can each be of
any size supported by the protection unit, from 0 bytes to 1MB, although to ease
implementation the size must be an integer power of two. The (I-SRAM) and
(D-SRAM) can have different sizes.
ARM946E-S supports synchronous SRAM for the tightly-coupled RAM. The memory
cells must be capable of returning data to the ARM9E-S core in a single cycle. This
requirement applies to both the I-SRAM and D-SRAM.
To allow the I-SRAM to be initialized, and for access to literal tables during execution,
the data interface of the ARM9E-S core must be able to access the I-SRAM. This means
that the ARM946E-S must multiplex the instruction and data addresses before entering
the I-SRAM. It also means that the instruction data is routed to both the instruction and
data interfaces of the core. See Figure 1-1 on page 1-3 for details of this data and
address multiplexing.
Figure 5-1 shows a typical read cycle (I-SRAM shown).
Figure 5-1 SRAM read cycle
The I-SRAM is located at address
0x00000000
in the memory map. This simplifies the
implementation of the design by removing the need for complex address comparators
on both the instruction and data interfaces of the ARM9E-S core to generate the chip
select logic for the SRAM. Fixing the SRAM location at
0x0
allows an address decode
to control the chip selects to give greater power efficiency.
CLK
InMREQ
IA[31:1]
INSTR[31:0]
SRAM
access time
Addr A
INSTR (A)
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