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Stellaris^® LM3S2B93 Microcontroller
1.3.2.2
1.3.2.3
1.3.3
Flash Memory (see page 325)
The LM3S2B93 microcontroller provides 256 KB of single-cycle on-chip Flash memory (above 50
MHz, the Flash memory can be accessed in a single cycle as long as the code is linear; branches
incur a one-cycle stall). The Flash memory is organized as a set of 1-KB blocks that can be
individually erased. Erasing a block causes the entire contents of the block to be reset to all 1s.
These blocks are paired into a set of 2-KB blocks that can be individually protected. The blocks can
be marked as read-only or execute-only, providing different levels of code protection. Read-only
blocks cannot be erased or 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 323)
The LM3S2B93 ROM is preprogrammed with the following software and programs:
■ Stellaris Peripheral Driver Library
■ Stellaris Boot Loader
■ Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) cryptography tables
■ Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) error-detection functionality
The Stellaris 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-M3 core.
No special pragmas or custom assembly code prologue/epilogue functions are required. For
applications that require in-field programmability, the royalty-free Stellaris 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 (e.g. XOR all bits) because it catches changes more
readily.
External Peripheral Interface (see page 473)
The External Peripheral Interface (EPI) provides access to external devices using a parallel path.
Unlike communications peripherals such as SSI, UART, and I²C, the EPI is designed to act like a
bus to external peripherals and memory.
The EPI has the following features:
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