Tightly-coupled SRAM
ARM DDI 0186A
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4-3
4.2
SRAM stall cycles
Stall cycles can occur in both the I-SRAM and D-SRAMs. The two RAMs share a
common stall mechanism. Because memory write in an ARM9E-S system is a
two-cycle operation, CPU memory access during the second cycle must be stalled. The
I-SRAM, has additional stall cycles as it can be accessed by both the instruction and
data interfaces of the ARM9E-S. In order to maximize memory interface frequency
performance, data read requests to the I-SRAM are pipelined by one clock cycle. Any
stall requirement is detected by the SRAM control and factored into its response to the
ARM966E-S system controller. The ARM9E-S
SYSCLKEN
input is then de-asserted
until the SRAM has performed the access.
Table 4-1 shows the number of stall cycles added for different stall mechanisms for the
I-SRAM.
Note
Data reads from the I-SRAM incur a single-cycle stall for each read instruction and not
each separate RAM read. LDM and LDR operations both incur a single stall cycle.
The D-SRAM stall mechanism is write followed by read, and the number of stall cycles
added is one.
For a detailed description of SRAM stall cycles, see Appendix C
Table 4-1 I-SRAM stall cycles
Number of
added cycles
Stall mechanism
1
Data read.
1
Data read followed by write.
1
Data write followed by instruction fetch or data read.
1
Data read followed by instruction fetch.
1
Simultaneous instruction fetch and data read.
2
Simultaneous instruction fetch and data write.
2
Data read or write followed by simultaneous instruction fetch and data
read or write.
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