Cypress manual Best Practices, Preliminary, CY14B104LA, CY14B104NA, + Feedback

PRELIMINARY

CY14B104LA, CY14B104NA

Best Practices

nvSRAM products have been used effectively for over 15 years. While ease-of-use is one of the product’s main system values, experience gained working with hundreds of applications has resulted in the following suggestions as best practices:

■The nonvolatile cells in this nvSRAM product are delivered from Cypress with 0x00 written in all cells. Incoming inspection routines at customer or contract manufacturer’s sites sometimes reprogram these values. Final NV patterns are typically repeating patterns of AA, 55, 00, FF, A5, or 5A. End product’s firmware should not assume an NV array is in a set programmed state. Routines that check memory content values to determine first time system configuration, cold or warm boot status, and so on should always program a unique NV pattern (that is, complex 4-byte pattern of 46 E6 49 53 hex or more random bytes) as part of the final system manufac- turing test to ensure these system routines work consistently.

■Power up boot firmware routines should rewrite the nvSRAM into the desired state (for example, autostore enabled). While the nvSRAM is shipped in a preset state, best practice is to again rewrite the nvSRAM into the desired state as a safeguard against events that might flip the bit inadvertently such as program bugs and incoming inspection routines.

■The VCAP value specified in this data sheet includes a minimum and a maximum value size. Best practice is to meet this requirement and not exceed the maximum VCAP value because the nvSRAM internal algorithm calculates VCAP charge and discharge time based on this max VCAP value. Customers that want to use a larger VCAP value to make sure there is extra store charge and store time should discuss their VCAP size selection with Cypress to understand any impact on the VCAP voltage level at the end of a tRECALL period.

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