TM4C1231E6PM_15 Datasheet, PDF (45/1145 Pages) Texas Instruments – Tiva™ TM4C1231E6PM Microcontroller

Tiva^™ TM4C1231E6PM Microcontroller
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programmed, protecting the contents of those blocks from being modified. Execute-only blocks
cannot be erased or programmed, and can only be read by the controller instruction fetch mechanism,
protecting the contents of those blocks from being read by either the controller or by a debugger.
ROM (see page 491)
The TM4C1231E6PM ROM is preprogrammed with the following software and programs:
■ TivaWare Peripheral Driver Library
■ TivaWare Boot Loader
■ Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptography tables
■ Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) error-detection functionality
The TivaWare Peripheral Driver Library is a royalty-free software library for controlling on-chip
peripherals with a boot-loader capability. The library performs both peripheral initialization and
control functions, with a choice of polled or interrupt-driven peripheral support. In addition, the library
is designed to take full advantage of the stellar interrupt performance of the ARM Cortex-M4F core.
No special pragmas or custom assembly code prologue/epilogue functions are required. For
applications that require in-field programmability, the royalty-free TivaWare Boot Loader can act as
an application loader and support in-field firmware updates.
The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a publicly defined encryption standard used by the
U.S. Government. AES is a strong encryption method with reasonable performance and size. In
addition, it is fast in both hardware and software, is fairly easy to implement, and requires little
memory. The Texas Instruments encryption package is available with full source code, and is based
on Lesser General Public License (LGPL) source. An LGPL means that the code can be used within
an application without any copyleft implications for the application (the code does not automatically
become open source). Modifications to the package source, however, must be open source.
CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check) is a technique to validate a span of data has the same contents
as when previously checked. This technique can be used to validate correct receipt of messages
(nothing lost or modified in transit), to validate data after decompression, to validate that Flash
memory contents have not been changed, and for other cases where the data needs to be validated.
A CRC is preferred over a simple checksum (for example, XOR all bits) because it catches changes
more readily.
EEPROM (see page 499)
The TM4C1231E6PM microcontroller includes an EEPROM with the following features:
■ 2Kbytes of memory accessible as 512 32-bit words
■ 32 blocks of 16 words (64 bytes) each
■ Built-in wear leveling
■ Access protection per block
■ Lock protection option for the whole peripheral as well as per block using 32-bit to 96-bit unlock
codes (application selectable)
■ Interrupt support for write completion to avoid polling
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