SPRZ452I july 2018 – may 2023 AM6526 , AM6528 , AM6546 , AM6548
RINGACC: Reads from GCFG Region Can Cause Spurious RAM ECC Errors
AM65x SR 2.1, SR 2.0, SR 1.0
A read to the Ring Accelerator (RA) Global Config Region (GCFG) can cause a read of a RAM with an illegal address. This causes the RAM to read random data which will fail the RAM ECC check. This will cause a log and interrupt to be created. The data itself is not used, so there is no functional failure, but the interrupt will make it appear there was a RAM failure.
This affects the MCU NAVSS RA only, as the MAIN NAVSS RA has an aligned size so there are no illegal RAM addresses.
The software that handles the RAM ECC interrupts for MCU NAVSS RA can check the address in the log registers and ignore the error if the address is beyond the limit of the RAM (which is the number of rings supported by the RA). The software can just clear the error.