4-Mbit nvSRAM Specification Sheet

PRELIMINARY
CY14B104LA, CY14B104NA
Document #: 001-49918 Rev. *A Page 7 of 23
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 V CAP 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 V CAP value because
the nvSRAM internal algorithm calculates V
CAP charge and
discharge time based on this max V
CAP
value. Customers that
want to use a larger V
CAP value to make sure there is extra
store charge and store time should discuss their V
CAP size
selection with Cypress to understand any impact on the V
CAP
voltage level at the end of a t
RECALL
period.
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