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Setting up TCM Memory in ARM926EJ-S

Note: This was originally posted on 20th October 2008 at http://forums.arm.com

Hi all,

I am currently trying to turn on TCM in ARM926EJ-S where there is 64K for ITCM, DTCM and internal SRAM.
I have decided to use it as:
32K ITCM
16K DTCM
16K SRAM

Therefore I thought I can use the memory from 0x30000 to 0x304000 no matter what, and set my stack pointer and exception+interrupt vectors to this location.
But as soon as I turn on TCM, the data in this memory is gone.
Does this make sense, or am I doing something wrong?

Here is how I do my TCM initialization:
HW_UINT32  dtcm, itcm;
HW_UINT32  enable_memory_sharing;

#define   HW_TCM_ENABLE  0x1
#define   HW_ITCM_SIZE_32K   6
#define   HW_DTCM_SIZE_16K  5

  enable_memory_sharing = 0;

 
  __asm__ __volatile__("MRC p15, 0, %0, c9, c1, 0":"=r"(dtcm));
  dtcm  |= ( 0x10104000 | (HW_DTCM_SIZE_16K << 2) | HW_TCM_ENABLE );
  __asm__ __volatile__("MCR p15, 0, %0, c9, c1, 0"::"r"(dtcm));

  enable_memory_sharing |= AT91C_CCFG_DTCM_SIZE_16KB;

  __asm__ __volatile__("MRC p15, 0, %0, c9, c1, 1":"=r"(itcm));
  itcm  |= ( 0x10108000 | (HW_ITCM_SIZE_32K << 2) | HW_TCM_ENABLE );
  __asm__ __volatile__("MCR p15, 0, %0, c9, c1, 1"::"r"(itcm));

  enable_memory_sharing  |= AT91C_CCFG_ITCM_SIZE_32KB;
 
  AT91C_BASE_CCFG->CCFG_TCMR  = enable_memory_sharing;


Regards,
Bekir
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 25th December 2008 at http://forums.arm.com

    Recently, I face the same problem.

    My question is that where should I put the TCM initialization code.

    In linux kernel or in ordinary user space code?

    Can anyone give me a tip?

    Thank you in advance.

    TCM is only the same speed as cache *if* the SRAM provided in the ASIC is single cycle access, zero wait-state memory.

    If the design is using the bulk SRAM to provide the TCM, there is no reason why the TCM should suddely be faster than the SRAM - the physical RAM hasn't changed. If the SRAM is (for example) three cycle access, I'd expect TCM to be three cycle access.

    Could this mean that the TCM is slower than the cache - yes certainly.
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  • Note: This was originally posted on 25th December 2008 at http://forums.arm.com

    Recently, I face the same problem.

    My question is that where should I put the TCM initialization code.

    In linux kernel or in ordinary user space code?

    Can anyone give me a tip?

    Thank you in advance.

    TCM is only the same speed as cache *if* the SRAM provided in the ASIC is single cycle access, zero wait-state memory.

    If the design is using the bulk SRAM to provide the TCM, there is no reason why the TCM should suddely be faster than the SRAM - the physical RAM hasn't changed. If the SRAM is (for example) three cycle access, I'd expect TCM to be three cycle access.

    Could this mean that the TCM is slower than the cache - yes certainly.
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