SPRACW5A April   2021  – December 2021 F29H850TU , F29H859TU-Q1 , TMS320F2800132 , TMS320F2800133 , TMS320F2800135 , TMS320F2800137 , TMS320F280021 , TMS320F280021-Q1 , TMS320F280023 , TMS320F280023-Q1 , TMS320F280023C , TMS320F280025 , TMS320F280025-Q1 , TMS320F280025C , TMS320F280025C-Q1 , TMS320F280033 , TMS320F280034 , TMS320F280034-Q1 , TMS320F280036-Q1 , TMS320F280036C-Q1 , TMS320F280037 , TMS320F280037-Q1 , TMS320F280037C , TMS320F280037C-Q1 , TMS320F280038-Q1 , TMS320F280038C-Q1 , TMS320F280039 , TMS320F280039-Q1 , TMS320F280039C , TMS320F280039C-Q1 , TMS320F280040-Q1 , TMS320F280040C-Q1 , TMS320F280041 , TMS320F280041-Q1 , TMS320F280041C , TMS320F280041C-Q1 , TMS320F280045 , TMS320F280048-Q1 , TMS320F280048C-Q1 , TMS320F280049 , TMS320F280049-Q1 , TMS320F280049C , TMS320F280049C-Q1 , TMS320F28075 , TMS320F28075-Q1 , TMS320F28076 , TMS320F28374D , TMS320F28374S , TMS320F28375D , TMS320F28375S , TMS320F28375S-Q1 , TMS320F28376D , TMS320F28376S , TMS320F28377D , TMS320F28377D-EP , TMS320F28377D-Q1 , TMS320F28377S , TMS320F28377S-Q1 , TMS320F28378D , TMS320F28378S , TMS320F28379D , TMS320F28379D-Q1 , TMS320F28379S , TMS320F28384D , TMS320F28384D-Q1 , TMS320F28384S , TMS320F28384S-Q1 , TMS320F28386D , TMS320F28386D-Q1 , TMS320F28386S , TMS320F28386S-Q1 , TMS320F28388D , TMS320F28388S , TMS320F28P650DH , TMS320F28P650DK , TMS320F28P650SH , TMS320F28P650SK , TMS320F28P659DH-Q1 , TMS320F28P659DK-Q1 , TMS320F28P659SH-Q1

 

  1.   Trademarks
  2. 1Introduction
  3. 2ACI Motor Control Benchmark Application
    1. 2.1 Source Code
    2. 2.2 CCS Project for TMS320F28004x
    3. 2.3 CCS Project for TMS320F2837x
    4. 2.4 Validate Application Behavior
    5. 2.5 Benchmarking Methodology
      1. 2.5.1 Details of Benchmarking With Counters
    6. 2.6 ERAD Module for Profiling Application
  4. 3Real-time Benchmark Data Analysis
    1. 3.1 ADC Interrupt Response Latency
    2. 3.2 Peripheral Access
    3. 3.3 TMU (math enhancement) Impact
    4. 3.4 Flash Performance
    5. 3.5 Control Law Accelerator (CLA)
      1. 3.5.1 Full Signal Chain Execution on CLA
        1. 3.5.1.1 CLA ADC Interrupt Response Latency
        2. 3.5.1.2 CLA Peripheral Access
        3. 3.5.1.3 CLA Trigonometric Math Compute
      2. 3.5.2 Offloading Compute to CLA
  5. 4C2000 Value Proposition
    1. 4.1 Efficient Signal Chain Execution With Better Real-Time Response Than Higher Computational MIPS Devices
    2. 4.2 Excellent Real-Time Interrupt Response With Low Latency
    3. 4.3 Tight Peripheral Integration That Scales Applications With Large Number of Peripheral Accesses
    4. 4.4 Best in Class Trigonometric Math Engine
    5. 4.5 Versatile Performance Boosting Compute Engine (CLA)
    6. 4.6 Deterministic Execution due to Low Execution Variance
  6. 5Summary
  7. 6References
  8. 7Revision History

3.4 Flash Performance

Many applications are configured to execute out of flash. As such flash performance is a critical criteria for measuring the capability of a real-time system. Typical benchmarks compute flash efficiency by executing synthetic code that may not reveal performance when executing a control application with its combinations of non-linear code flow, data tables and peripheral accesses.

The F28004x and F2837x have two build configurations: 'SignalChain_RAM_TMU' and 'SignalChain_FLASH_TMU'. The execution time for these configurations are displayed in Figure 3-6 and Figure 3-7.

GUID-20210205-CA0I-T0N9-P752-L9HHV8LWLPGL-low.png Figure 3-6 TMS320F28004x Execution Time From RAM and Flash
GUID-20210205-CA0I-0VKK-M9BD-KFVXH3KZLGGK-low.png Figure 3-7 TMS320F2837x Execution Time From RAM and Flash

The flash performance as derived from the total average execution cycles benchmark data is listed in Table 3-3.

Table 3-3 Flash Execution Performance Compared to RAM
RAM Execution (cycles) Flash Execution (cycles) Flash Relative Performance
(RAM_cycles * 100 / Flash_cycles)		 Flash Technology
TMS320F28004x 529 648 82%
  • 100 MHz CPU Clock
  • 20 MHz Flash Speed
  • 4 Wait States
TMS320F2837x 537 582 92%
  • 200 MHz CPU Clock
  • 50 MHz Flash Speed
  • 3 Wait States

As can be seen by the data in the table, the flash performance of C2000 devices for a real world application like ACI motor control is very good (~80-90%) when compared to the RAM performance.