SRAM Stall Cycles
C-2
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About SRAM stall cycles
Stall cycles can occur in both the instruction and data SRAMs, with one stall
mechanism being shared between the SRAMs and additional stall mechanism attributed
to the I-SRAM only. 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 deasserted until the SRAM has performed the access.
C.1.1
Read-follows-write
This stall mechanism is shared by both instruction and data SRAM because of the
pipelined nature of write data from the ARM9E-S core. The write data appears on the
core interface in the cycle after the address, so that it is not possible to perform the write
until the next rising clock edge. The address from the core must therefore be pipelined
to line up with the write data. A write with pipelined address is shown in Figure C-1.
Figure C-1 SRAM write cycle
Note
The write is performed on the second rising edge of the period marked D-SRAM write
cycle.
In the case of back-to-back writes, stalls do not occur because the pipelined address is
being used and this keeps in step with the data. However, if a read follows the write, the
write must first be allowed to complete before the lookup for the read can be performed.
Write data
Addr A (write)
Addr A
CLK
DnMREQ
DnRW
DA[31:1]
SRAM Addr
WDATA[31:0]
WEN
D-SRAM write
cycle
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