6. MSC - Memory System Controller
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Quick Facts
What?
The user can perform Flash memory read, read con-
figuration and write operations through the Memory
System Controller (MSC) .
Why?
The MSC allows the application code, user data and
flash lock bits to be stored in non-volatile Flash
memory. Certain memory system functions, such as
program memory wait-states and bus faults are also
configured from the MSC peripheral register inter-
face, giving the developer the ability to dynamically
customize the memory system performance, securi-
ty level, energy consumption and error handling ca-
pabilities to the requirements at hand.
How?
The MSC integrates a low-energy Flash IP with a
charge pump, enabling minimum energy consump-
tion while eliminating the need for external program-
ming voltage to erase the memory. An easy to use
write and erase interface is supported by an internal,
fixed-frequency oscillator and autonomous flash tim-
ing and control reduces software complexity while
not using other timer resources.
Application code may dynamically scale between
high energy optimization and high code execution
performance through advanced read modes.
A highly efficient low energy instruction cache re-
duces the number of flash reads significantly, thus
saving energy. Performance is also improved when
wait-states are used, since many of the wait-states
are eliminated. Built-in performance counters can be
used to measure the efficiency of the instruction
cache.
6.1 Introduction
The Memory System Controller (MSC) is the program memory unit of the EFM32 Jade Gecko microcontroller. The flash memory is
readable and writable from both the Cortex-M3 and DMA. The flash memory is divided into two blocks; the main block and the informa-
tion block. Program code is normally written to the main block. Additionally, the information block is available for special user data and
flash lock bits. There is also a read-only page in the information block containing system and device calibration data, and bootloader.
Read and write operations are supported in the energy modes EM0 Active and EM1 Sleep.
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