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UG585 (v1.11) September 27, 2016
Chapter 12: Quad-SPI Flash Controller
Read Data Management
A 63-deep RxFIFO provides read data buffering to hold a minimum of three AXI burst transfer
lengths of 16 bytes each. Since the RxFIFO starts receiving data as soon as the chip-select signal is
active, the linear address adapter removes incoming data that corresponds to the instruction code,
if any, the address, and the dummy cycles.
The read data must be aligned with the corresponding word boundary specified by the address. For
data alignment purposes, the controller can modify the address as illustrated in Figure 12-4 before
it is sent to the flash memory device. The address modification involves reducing the address by up
to 3 byte locations such that the intended return data is word aligned automatically. The amount of
address change is transparent to the AXI interface, and is instruction dependent.
For example, if Cmd + address + mode + dummy (QSPI_intruction) does not end on a 32 bit
boundary, the linear controller subtracts 1,2,3 from the address to align data on the 32 bit boundary.
Read Latency
In linear mode, the default read mode is fast Quad I/O. The following is an example to calculate latency
at the memory in the Quad I/O mode at 100 MHz with 2 dummy bytes. For a single device, the number
of clock cycles from the time an 8-bit instruction code and a 24-bit address is available to the time
when the first 32-bit data becomes available is:
Total latency = instruction latency + address latency + overhead (mode + dummy bites + offset) +
latency
= 8 cycles + 6 cycles + 8 (2+4+2) cycles + 8 cycles
=30 cycles
With the SPI clock of 100 MHz, the latency at the memory interface is 320 ns. Other read modes have
higher latency and can be calculated in a similar manner.
X-Ref Target - Figure 12-4
Figure 12-4: Automatic Address Offset For Word Alignment
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Address Offset
Flash mem addr =
AXI read addr - x
Where x depends
on the instr type and
is either 0, 1, 2 or 3
AXI read addr
Flash mem addr