PROCESSING SYSTEM, RELATED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DEVICE AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20200319876A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-10-08

    申请号:US16829280

    申请日:2020-03-25

    Inventor: Roberto Colombo

    Abstract: A processing system includes a digital processing unit, one or more non-volatile memories configured to store a firmware to be executed by the digital processing unit, a diagnostic circuit configured to execute a self-test operation of the processing system in response to a diagnostic mode enable signal, and a reset circuit. The reset circuit is configured to perform a complex reset of the processing system by generating a first reset of the processing system in response to a given event and generating a second reset of the processing system once the self-test operation has been executed. The processing system is configured to set the diagnostic mode enable signal in response to the first reset, thereby activating execution of the self-test operation.

    Processing System, Related Integrated Circuit and Method

    公开(公告)号:US20190272211A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-05

    申请号:US16289425

    申请日:2019-02-28

    Inventor: Roberto Colombo

    Abstract: A processing system includes a processing unit configured to be connected to a memory with error detection and/or correction. The processing unit generates at least one read request for reading data from the memory, the read request including an address signal identifying an address of a given memory area in the memory. The processing system includes an error handling circuit connected to the memory for receiving an error signal containing an error code indicating whether the data read from the memory contains errors. The error handling circuit includes a hardware circuit configured to set a first error signal to the error code of the error signal when the address indicated by the address signal belongs to a first address range and to set a second error signal to the error code of the error signal when the address indicated by the address signal belongs to a second address range.

    Microcontroller unit and corresponding method of operation

    公开(公告)号:US12147209B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-11-19

    申请号:US17704675

    申请日:2022-03-25

    Abstract: A set of configuration memory locations store configuration data for a microcontroller unit. A hardware monitoring module is coupled by an interconnection bus to the configuration memory locations. The hardware monitoring module reads from an instruction memory a command including an address of a target memory location in the set of configuration memory locations. Data is read from the target memory location corresponding to the address read and a checksum value is computed as a function of the data that is read from the target memory location. The computed checksum value is then compared to a respective expected checksum value stored in a checksum storage unit. An alarm signal is triggered in response to a mismatch detected between the computed checksum value and the respective expected checksum value.

    PROCESSING SYSTEM, RELATED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DEVICE AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230409341A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-21

    申请号:US18312237

    申请日:2023-05-04

    CPC classification number: G06F9/4405 G06F21/64

    Abstract: In embodiments, a reset management circuit executes reset, configuration, and software runtime phases when a processing system is switched on, where one or more microprocessors start at respective start addresses. During the configuration phase, a circuit reads a boot record from a non-volatile memory and stores it to registers. The circuit sequentially reads data records of configuration data from the non-volatile memory and generates a write request for each data record to store the data of the respective data record to a second circuit with associated address data indicated in the respective data record. The processing system processes the boot record and boot configuration data provided by the second circuits to selectively start a predetermined microprocessor at a default start address or at a start address indicated by the boot configuration data, or start one or more microprocessors at respective start addresses as indicated by the boot record.

    PROCESSING SYSTEM, RELATED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DEVICE AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230385215A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-11-30

    申请号:US18364786

    申请日:2023-08-03

    Abstract: In an embodiment, a processing system comprises a microprocessor programmable via software instructions, a memory controller configured to be coupled to a memory, a communication system coupling the microprocessors to the memory controller, a cryptographic co-processor and a first communication interface. The processing system also comprises first and second configurable DMA channels. In a first configuration, the first DMA channel is configured to transfer data from the memory to the cryptographic co-processor, and the second DMA channel is configured to transfer the encrypted data via two loops from the cryptographic co-processor to the first communication interface. In a second configuration, the second DMA channel is configured to transfer received data via two loops from the first communication interface to the cryptographic co-processor, and the first DMA channel is configured to transfer the decrypted data from the cryptographic co-processor to the memory.

    PROCESSING SYSTEM, RELATED INTEGRATED CIRCUIT, DEVICE AND METHOD

    公开(公告)号:US20230314506A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-05

    申请号:US18186624

    申请日:2023-03-20

    CPC classification number: G01R31/31721 G01R31/31724 G01R31/318566

    Abstract: In an embodiment a processing system includes a reset circuit configured to receive a reset-request signal and one or more further reset-request signals, wherein the one or more further reset-request signals are provided by a processing core, one or more further circuits and/or a terminal of the processing system and to generate a combined reset-request signal by combining the reset-request signal and the one or more further reset-request signals, and a hardware test circuit including for each of the one or more further reset-request signals, a respective first combinational circuit configured to selectively assert the respective further reset-request signal, a second combinational logic circuit configured to selectively mask the combined reset-request signal, and a control circuit configured to repeat operations during a diagnostic phase.

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