SPRADK4 October   2024 AM263P2-Q1 , AM263P4 , AM263P4-Q1

 

  1.   1
  2.   Abstract
  3.   Trademarks
  4. 1Introduction
  5. 2OptiFlash Technology
  6. 3OptiFlash Hardware Accelerators
    1. 3.1 RL2_OF Accelerators
      1. 3.1.1 RL2-Flash Cache
      2. 3.1.2 FLC - Fast Local Copy (Image Download Acceleration)
      3. 3.1.3 Region-Based Address Translation (RAT)
    2. 3.2 FSS Accelerators
      1. 3.2.1 On-the-fly-Safety Engine
      2. 3.2.2 On-the-fly-Security Engine
      3. 3.2.3 FOTA HW Engine
  7. 4OptiFlash SW Tooling
    1. 4.1 Smart Placement
    2. 4.2 Smart Layout
    3. 4.3 Optishare
    4. 4.4 Dynamic Overlay
  8. 5Benchmarks and Performance Data
  9. 6Usecases for OptiFlash Accelerators
  10. 7Getting Started With OptiFlash
  11. 8Conclusion

4.1 Smart Placement

Performance degradation when code executes from external FLASH is about 2-3x compared to when code executes from internal RAM. The smart placement tool helps to minimize the performance degradation by “smart” placement of “critical” code (a function is marked critical if it is executed higher no. of times vs another function). It generates a “linker command file”, which places “critical” function in RAM in a fixed size RAM code buffer and execute the rest from external FLASH.