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

8 Conclusion

In the high-performance MCU world, due to increase in the complexity of emerging applications, the memory and performance requirements of these architectures are going high. Hence, there is an increasing demand for using external flash in these Microcontrollers. However, using external flash brings a set of challenges in the system that need to be solved. TI’s OptiFlash memory technology solution provides a set of hardware accelerators and software tooling, which are easy to deploy, solving key concerns of using external flash. It is a low-cost solution that aims to enhance the system performance when executing from external Flash, and also provides scalability in terms of Flash size based on system need. This allows TI MCUs that take advantage of deep submicron technology nodes to deliver the required CPU performance. OptiFlash solution also scales with devices supporting Embedded Flash to further increase the overall Flash size using external flash.