Posted on September 08, 2015 at 10:10Hello everyone
I did some basic and low level SDRAM tests on the STM32429I-EVAL and got some weird results or at least I think they are strange. I'm using the IAR Embedded Workbench and the including toolchain. Optimizations are set to ''high'' and focus is on ''speed''. This is the shape of my test:
// Write pattern to buffer, word by word
printf(''BEGIN - word by word\n\r'');
int patternInt = 0xCCCCCCCC;
count = COUNT;
printf(''writing %dMB to ram...\n\r'',
COUNT * allocatedMemory / 1024 / 1024);
gettimeofday(&lasttv, NULL);
while (count > 0) {
for (int i = 0; i < allocatedMemory / 4; i++)
memoryBufferInt[i] = patternInt;
--count;
}
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
timeDiff = tvDiff(&tv, &lasttv);
printf(''time used to write %dMB to ram: %d.%ds\n\r'',
COUNT * allocatedMemory / 1024 / 1024, timeDiff.tv_sec, timeDiff.tv_msec);
printf(''writing speed: %dMB/s\n\r'',
COUNT * allocatedMemory / 1024 / 1024 / timeDiff.tv_sec);
// Read from buffer, word by word
int readInt;
count = COUNT;
printf(''reading %dMB from ram...\n\r'',
COUNT * allocatedMemory / 1024 / 1024);
gettimeofday(&lasttv, NULL);
while (count > 0) {
for (int i = 0; i < allocatedMemory / 4; i++)
//HAL_SDRAM_Read_32b(hsdram, (uint32_t*)(SDRAM_ADDRESS + 4*i) ,&readInt, 1);
readInt = memoryBufferInt[i];
--count;
}
gettimeofday(&tv, NULL);
// this if statement has been moved from the read loop and is needed here, so the compiler doesn't optimize the variable readInt
if (readInt != patternInt)
printf(''read error at position %d\n\r'', 0);
timeDiff = tvDiff(&tv, &lasttv);
printf(''time used to read %dMB from ram: %d.%ds\n\r'',
COUNT * allocatedMemory / 1024 / 1024, timeDiff.tv_sec, timeDiff.tv_msec);
printf(''reading speed: %dMB/s\n\r'',
COUNT * allocatedMemory / 1024 / 1024 / timeDiff.tv_sec);
printf(''END - word by word\n\r'');
I basically merged the two examples FMC_SDRAM and UART_Printf and changed the SDRAM init code according to another project I'm working on. The original SDRAM settings show the same/similar results. These are the speed results:
BEGIN - word by word
writing 160MB to ram...
time used to write 160MB to ram: 5.909s
writing speed: 32MB/s
reading 160MB from ram...
time used to read 160MB from ram: 8.650s
reading speed: 20MB/s
END - word by word
As you can see the speed of writing and reading is pretty low and I expected the reading speed to be faster than writing. I will try to attach the source files, last time I did this, my post disappeared. Thank you very much for your help.
Greetings
mg
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