Texas Instruments TMS320C6201 TMS320C6201 Silicon Errata,

SPRZ153

TMS320C6201 Silicon Errata

Revision(s) Affected: 2.1 and 2.0

Details: The C6201 McBSP m-Law/A-Law companding hardware produces an incorrectly expanded m-Law

value. McBSP receives m-Law value 0111 1111, representing a mid-scale analog value. Expanded

16-bit data is 1000 0000 0000 0000, representing a most negative value. Expected value is 0000

0000 0000 0000. McBSP expands µ-Law 1111 1111 (also mid-scale value) correctly. m-Law works

correctly for all encoded values, except for 0x7f. (Internal Reference Number 0651)

Revision(s) Affected: 2.1 and 2.0

Details: If a program requests fetch packet “A” followed immediately by fetch packet “B”, and the

following are true:

•A and B are separated by a multiple of 64K in memory (i.e., they will occupy the same

cache frame)

•B is currently located in cache

Then, A will be registered as a “miss” and B will be registered as a “hit”. B will not be reloaded

into cache, and A will be executed twice. This condition is extremely rare because B has to be

in cache memory, and must be the next fetch packet requested after A (which is not in cache

memory). (Internal Reference Number 4372)

Workaround: The program should be relinked to force A and B to not be a multiple of 64K apart.

Revision(s) Affected: 2.1 and 2.0

Details: This is documented as a difference between the TMX320C6201 revision 2.x (and earlier) and

revision 3.0 (and later).

The HOLD feature of the C6201 currently will not respond to a HOLD request if the NOHOLD

bit is set at the time of the HOLD request, but is then cleared while the HOLD request is

pending. In other words, for a HOLD request to be recognized, a high-to-low transition must

occur on the HOLD input while the NOHOLD bit is not set. Future revisions of the device will

operate as described below.

If NOHOLD is set and a HOLD request comes in, the C62xt will ignore the HOLD request. If

while the HOLD request is still asserted the NOHOLD bit is then deasserted, the HOLD will be

acknowledged as expected. (Internal reference number 0101)

Workaround: To recognize a pending HOLD request when the state of the NOHOLD bit is changed from

1 to 0, a pulse must be generated on the input HOLD line. This can be done by logically

OR-ing a normally low general-purpose output (DMAC can be used) with the HOLD request

signal from the requester, and creating a high pulse on the general-purpose output pin.