topic Re: How to access the content of the fuse map? in i.MX RT Crossover MCUs

How to access the content of the fuse map?

EdSutter — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:11:58 GMT

The imx1060 fusemap (ref-manual chapter 22) is confusing me, so I could use some clarification...

Seems the fusemap chapter goes into a lot of detail regarding fuse addresses (ranging from 0x400 - 0x8c0) and their bits; but there is no discussion regarding how to access that address range. Then chapter 23 (OCOTP) seems to say that the OCOTP is the mechanism used to access the fuse map. Referring to the SDK's OCOTP code, I can use OCOTP_Init(), OCOTP_ReloadShadowRegister(), OCOTP_ReadFuseShadowRegister() and OCOTP_WriteFuseShadowRegister() to read/write the fuses; but I don't understand how the address passed to OCOTP_ReadFuseShadowRegister() corresponds to some entry in the fusemap.

Based on the "OTP Memory Footprint" (Figure 23-2 in ref manual), there are several "not-reserved" shadow registers that can be accessed as follows:

0x00: LOCK

0x05: BOOT_CFG

0x06: BOOT_CFG

0x07: BOOT_CFG

0x0F: ANALOG

0x20: SJC

0x21: SJC

0x22: MAC

0x23: MAC

0x24: MAC

0x26: GP1

0x27: GP2

0x28: SW_GP1

0x2D: MISC_CONF

0x2E: MISC_CONF

0x38: GP3

0x39: GP3

0x3A: GP3

0x3B: GP3

Do each of these registers somehow correspond to entries fusemap? If yes, how? If no, what am I missing?

Are the functions I mention above the correct hooks into the fusemap?

Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

EdSutter — Thu, 16 Jul 2020 21:40:30 GMT

As an add-on to my above question, I see that MIMXRT1062.h has comments that seem to correlate various offsets into the OCOTP register space to addresses in the fusemap. For example, if I wanted to see the Default FlexRAM bank partitioning as defined by the fusemap, then I could read OCOTP->MISC_CONF0 and decode bits [19:16].

When I go to the reference manual and look at the description of the MISC_CONF0 I see this description...

and that seems to be the extent of the "Diagram" for most of these registers. So am I really supposed to refer to MIMXRT1062.h for the OCOTP documentation?

Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

victorjimenez — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 23:28:40 GMT

Hello Ed,

There is some misunderstanding regarding the capabilities of the shadow registers. Writing to the shadow registers doesn't affect at any level the corresponding fuses.

All fuse words in efusebox are shadowed. Therefore, fuse information is available through memory-mapped shadow registers. If fuses are subsequently programmed, the shadow registers should be reloaded to keep them coherent with the fuse bank arrays.

Shadow register bits can be overridden by software until the corresponding fuse lock bit for the region is set. When the lock shadow bit is set, the shadow registers for that lock region become write-locked.

The shadow registers automatically load the appropriate OTP contents after reset is deasserted. This means that once the power-up sequence is completed the fuse values will be copied directly into their corresponding shadowed registers. This is with the intended that you can read the fuse values in run-time.

To learn more information about how to read/write the shadow registers refer to sections 23.4.1.1, 23.4.1.2, and 23.4.1.3 of the reference manual.

Have a great day,

Victor

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Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

EdSutter — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 11:55:44 GMT

Hi Victor,

Thanks for responding, but that doesn't answer my question. I read the chapters, and I do realize that modifying the shadow registers does not affect the fusemap; but that's the extent of my understanding. The operations described in section 23.4.1 outline the steps to access the fusemap directly, I get that, here is my fundamental problem...

There appears to be two different sets of addresses for the fusemap...

Chapter 22 goes into good detail regarding addresses (and bit definitions) that range from 0x400-0x8c0, but then chapter 23 refers to the "Fuse Shadow Memory Footprint" which has addresses from 0x00-0x3f (and it gives zero information regarding bit descriptions).

Is the "ADDR" value (i.e. HW_OCOTP_CTRL[ADDR]) described in the sections you mention, the address documented in the "Fusemap Description Table" (chap22) or the "Fuse Shadow Memory Footprint" (chap23)?

Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

mjbcswitzerland — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 23:01:33 GMT

Hi Ed

This thread may give some extra details about matching up the eFUSE (and bit) settings with shadow registers:

https://community.nxp.com/message/1312044#comment-1312136

Regards

Mark

[uTasker project developer for Kinetis and i.MX RT]

Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

EdSutter — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 14:21:45 GMT

Thanks Mark,

Still not clear to me, but it'll sink in sooner or later. I just don't understand why there are two different "address spaces" for the fuse maps. The reference manual goes into great detail on the 0x600-0x8c0 space, but then (as best I can tell) the NXP SDK uses the 0x00-0x3f addresses, but nowhere is there a mapping between the two different spaces. I saw your drawing, but it looks like that is in the GUI. I am more interested in a mapping explanation in the reference manual because I'm trying to avoid using the GUI.

Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

victorjimenez — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 17:37:33 GMT

Hi Ed,

I think I understood your confusion. For the explanation, I will take as an example the ANALOG group that is at location 0x0F.

In section 23.6.1.24.2 of the reference manual, you will find the shadow register that corresponds to this word.

Here, you can see that the offset of this register is 4F0. If you go to the Fusemap Descriptions Table, you will see that address 0x4F0 corresponds to the USB VID and USB PID.

Have a great day,

Victor

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Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

EdSutter — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 12:17:48 GMT

Hey Victor,

First of all sorry for the late reply. For some reason I don't get email anymore when a forum notification comes in for me... Not sure what broke there...

Anyway, I believe this solves my confusion, but just to be sure...

I see the correlation between 0x4F0 and Bank1 Word7 (referring to table 23.6.1.1); so am I correct to assume that I would use 0x0F (offset from Figure 23-2) as the address passed to OCOTP_ReadFuseShadowRegister() to read what is at 0x4F0 in the fusemap?

If that's the case, then you nailed it for me, and I'll mark this answered.

Thanks!

Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

victorjimenez — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 18:49:14 GMT

Hi Ed,

Yes, your understanding is correct. You need to pass 0x0F as the address argument to the function OCOTP_ReadFuseShadowRegister() to read what is at 0x4F0 in the fusemap.

Have a great day,

Victor

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Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

ping1 — Thu, 03 Sep 2020 08:58:14 GMT

Thanks for this post, now I gained access to CFG0(ADDR - 0x410) & CFG1(ADDR - 0x420) in fuse map for RT1064, the datasheet (Table22-6) says they are SJC CHALLENGE/Unique ID, I just wonder whether they are really unique, can be used as a unit specific unique ID.

Regards!

Ping

Re: How to access the content of the fuse map?

victorjimenez — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:43:57 GMT

Yes, this is a unique value. To ensure the uniqueness of this value, you have to use the full 64-bit of the number.