
Preface
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About this book
This book is for the Cortex-A9 MBIST controller.
In this book, the generic term MBIST controller means the Cortex-A9 MBIST
controller, and Cortex-A9 processor means the Cortex-A9 processor family.
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Intended audience
This book is written for hardware engineers who are familiar with ARM technology and
want to use the MBIST controller to test the RAM blocks used by the Cortex-A9
processor. The AXI protocol is not specified, but some familiarity with AXI is assumed.
Using this book
This book is organized into the following chapters:
Read this for an introduction to MBIST technology.
Read this for a description of the Cortex-A9 processor interface to the
MBIST controller and MBIST testing of the data RAM and tag RAMs.
Also read this chapter for a description of the timing sequences for
loading MBIST instructions, starting the MBIST test, detecting failures,
and retrieving the data log.
Read this for a description on how to use the MBIST Instruction Register
to configure the mode of operation of the MBIST engine.
Read this for a description of the MBIST Datalog Register.