SAM9X25 Atmel Corporation, SAM9X25 Datasheet - Page 41

• Manufacturer Part Number: SAM9X25
• Manufacturer: Atmel Corporation

Specifications of SAM9X25

• Flash (kbytes): 0 Kbytes
• Pin Count: 217
• Max. Operating Frequency: 400 MHz
• Cpu: ARM926
• Hardware Qtouch Acquisition: No
• Max I/o Pins: 105
• Ext Interrupts: 105
• Usb Transceiver: 3
• Usb Speed: Hi-Speed
• Usb Interface: Host, Device
• Spi: 2
• Twi (i2c): 3
• Uart: 7
• Can: 2
• Lin: 4
• Ssc: 1
• Ethernet: 2
• Sd / Emmc: 2
• Graphic Lcd: No
• Video Decoder: No
• Camera Interface: No
• Adc Channels: 12
• Adc Resolution (bits): 10
• Adc Speed (ksps): 440
• Resistive Touch Screen: No
• Temp. Sensor: No
• Crypto Engine: No
• Sram (kbytes): 32
• Self Program Memory: NO
• External Bus Interface: 1
• Dram Memory: DDR/LPDDR, SDRAM/LPSDR
• Nand Interface: Yes
• Picopower: No
• Temp. Range (deg C): -40 to 85
• I/o Supply Class: 1.8/3.3
• Operating Voltage (vcc): 0.9 to 1.1
• Fpu: No
• Mpu / Mmu: No/Yes
• Timers: 6
• Output Compare Channels: 6
• Input Capture Channels: 6
• Pwm Channels: 4
• 32khz Rtc: Yes
• Calibrated Rc Oscillator: No

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Caches and Write Buffer
Translation Table Walk Hardware
MMU Faults
If the TLB does not contain an entry for the MVA, the translation table walk hardware is invoked
to retrieve the translation information from the translation table in physical memory.
The translation table walk hardware is a logic that traverses the translation tables located in
physical memory, gets the physical address and access permissions and updates the TLB.
The number of stages in the hardware table walking is one or two depending whether the
address is marked as a section-mapped access or a page-mapped access.
There are three sizes of page-mapped accesses and one size of section-mapped access. Page-
mapped accesses are for large pages, small pages and tiny pages. The translation process
always begins with a level one fetch. A section-mapped access requires only a level one fetch,
but a page-mapped access requires an additional level two fetch. For further details on the
MMU, please refer to chapter 3 in ARM926EJ-S Technical Reference Manual.
The MMU generates an abort on the following types of faults:
The access control mechanism of the MMU detects the conditions that produce these faults. If
the fault is a result of memory access, the MMU aborts the access and signals the fault to the
CPU core.The MMU retains status and address information about faults generated by the data
accesses in the data fault status register and fault address register. It also retains the status of
faults generated by instruction fetches in the instruction fault status register.
The fault status register (register 5 in CP15) indicates the cause of a data or prefetch abort, and
the domain number of the aborted access when it happens. The fault address register (register 6
in CP15) holds the MVA associated with the access that caused the Data Abort. For further
details on MMU faults, please refer to chapter 3 in ARM926EJ-S Technical Reference Manual.
The ARM926EJ-S contains a 16KB Instruction Cache (ICache), a 16KB Data Cache (DCache),
and a write buffer. Although the ICache and DCache share common features, each still has
some specific mechanisms.
The caches (ICache and DCache) are four-way set associative, addressed, indexed and tagged
using the Modified Virtual Address (MVA), with a cache line length of eight words with two dirty
bits for the DCache. The ICache and DCache provide mechanisms for cache lockdown, cache
pollution control, and line replacement.
A new feature is now supported by ARM926EJ-S caches called allocate on read-miss commonly
known as wrapping. This feature enables the caches to perform critical word first cache refilling.
This means that when a request for a word causes a read-miss, the cache performs an AHB
access. Instead of loading the whole line (eight words), the cache loads the critical word first, so
the processor can reach it quickly, and then the remaining words, no matter where the word is
located in the line.
• Alignment faults (for data accesses only)
• Translation faults
• Domain faults
• Permission faults
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