Intel® Agilex™ Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual

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Date 2/14/2023
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10.4.2. ECC Structure

The ECC is calculated based on a Hamming code for the corresponding data word length.

Table 86.  ECC Bits Required Based on Data Width
Data Bus Width ECC Bits
8 to 15 bits 5
16 to 31 bits 6
32 to 63 bits 7
64 to 127 bits 8
128 to 255 bits 9
256 bits 10
Table 87.  ECC Memory Characteristics

This table shows the memory data size and the Hamming code word length for each of the ECC-protected memories in the HPS, as well as the memory type. The Hamming code word length is calculated based on the full data width and whether the memory is byte- or word- addressable.

Notice that only the DMA is byte-addressable. For each byte of data, five syndrome bits are used. For a data size of 64 bits (8 bytes), a total of 8 bytes*(8-bit data + 5-bit ECC) bits are used for a Hamming code word.

The on-chip RAM is word-addressable. It supports sub-word accesses, however, through a read-modify-write operation. For example, accessing byte 2 of an on-chip RAM word causes a data read of the whole word with ECC. If the word passes the syndrome check, then the byte 2 data is concatenated with the other three bytes of the original data. ECC is recalculated and data is written to memory.

Peripheral Memory

Data Size

Memory

ECC Bits Data Width + ECC Bits

Hamming Code Word (length in bits)

Type 14

On-chip RAM

64 x 32768

Word-addressable 8 64+7 15

72

Single port

USB RAM

35 x 8192

Word-addressable 7 35+7

42

Single port

SD/MMC FIFO

32 x 1024

Word-addressable 7 32+7

39

True dual port

EMAC Rx FIFO

35 x 4096

Word-addressable 7 35+7

42

Simple dual port

EMAC Tx FIFO

35 x 4096

Word-addressable 7 35+7

42

Simple dual port

DMA FIFO

64 x 512

Byte-addressable 5 per byte lane 64+40 16

104

Simple dual port

NAND ECC Buffer

16 x 768

Word-addressable 6 16+6

22

Simple dual port

NAND Write FIFO

32 x 128

Word-addressable 7 32+7

39

Simple dual port

NAND Read FIFO

32 x 32

Word-addressable 7 32+7

39

Simple dual port

14 True dual-port memory has two writeable and two readable ports. Simple dual port memory has one write-only port and one read-only port.
15 Uses read-modify-write for subword accesses
16 This is the same as 8 byte lanes with 5 ECC bits per lane.