AN 796: Cyclone® V and Arria® V SoC Device Design Guidelines

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Date 3/30/2022
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5.4. HPS ECC Design Considerations

ECC is implemented throughout the entire HPS subsystem on all RAMs, including the external HPS EMIF, L2 cache data RAMs and all peripheral RAMs. The controller ECC employs standard Hamming logic to detect and correct single-bit errors and detect double-bit errors. Parity protection is provided for the Cortex®-A9 MPCore* L1 cache memories and L2 tag RAM. ECC can be selectively enabled on the HPS EMIF and internal HPS RAMs. Diagnostic test modes and error injection capability are available under software control. ECC is disabled by default upon power-up or cold reset.

The generated boot code configures, initializes and enables ECC according to user options selected during BSP generation. Custom firmware and bare metal application code access to the ECC features is facilitated with the Intel® -provided HWLibs library, which provides a simple API for programming HPS software features.

For more information, refer to the "Boot Tools User Guide" and "Hardware Library" chapters of the Intel® SoC FPGA Embedded Development Suite User Guide .