topic Re: SRAM segment in MCUXpresso IDE

SRAM segment

anbui — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 22:05:10 GMT

K22 SRAM is split into 2 64K segments.

Currently the linker is only using SRAM_UPPER.

How should i change the MCUXpresso settings to:

a) merge the SRAM into 1 128K.

b) evenly distribute across both segments?

Re: SRAM segment

jorge_a_vazquez — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 17:11:07 GMT

Hi An Bui

This means your RAM memory has overflowed. You cannot mearge this two RAM into one because it could cause you bus problems. My recomendation is that you place some data memory in the lower ram manually with a Macro definition in #include "cr_section_macros.h" for example

__BSS(SRAM_LOWER) uint8_t s_currSendBuf2[]

Hope this helps

Best regards

Jorge Alcala

Re: SRAM segment

hedj — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 09:11:16 GMT

Hi Jorge,

Initially the linker put all my data into SRAM_UPPER, which causes it to overflow.

So I did what you suggested, I put __BSS(SRAM_LOWER) in front of a big float array about 28k size; after compiling I found linker put all data into SRAM_LOWER, which definitely causes another overflow.

How to make the linker to put the rest data in upper RAM without manually adding __BSS(SRAM_UPPER) for rest data? I have a few dozens of them.

Thx.

Re: SRAM segment

hedj — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 06:14:01 GMT

I think I made a calculation error: the data put into SRAM_LOWER by linker is exactly the size of that big array. That means __BSS() works as expected.

Re: SRAM segment

hedj — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 05:11:53 GMT

Hi Jorge,

Is there any document on why the memory is split into 2, and how MCU works if there is data in both parts?

Thx.