SPRADS6 March   2026 AM68A , AM69A , TDA4VM

 

  1.   1
  2.   Abstract
  3.   Trademarks
  4. 1Data Movement within the TDA4VH
    1. 1.1 Common Bus Architecture Subsystem (CBASS)
    2. 1.2 Navigator Subsystems (NAVSS)
      1. 1.2.1 NAVSS North Bridge (NB)
    3. 1.3 Multicore Shared Memory Controller (MSMC)
  5. 2Quality of Service (QoS)
    1. 2.1 NAVSS0
      1. 2.1.1 NAVSS0 North Bridge
        1. 2.1.1.1 Normal vs Real-Time Traffic
    2. 2.2 Multicore Shared Memory Controller (MSMC)
    3. 2.3 DDR Subsystem (DDRSS)
      1. 2.3.1 MSMC2DDR Bridge
      2. 2.3.2 Class of Service (CoS)
    4. 2.4 QoS Summary
  6. 3Case Study: Display Sync Lost Issue
    1. 3.1 Problem Statement
    2. 3.2 Setup and Recreation
      1. 3.2.1 Requirements
        1. 3.2.1.1 RTOS Patches
          1. 3.2.1.1.1 0001-vision_apps-Remove-the-DSS-application-from-MCU2_0.patch
          2. 3.2.1.1.2 0002-vision_apps-Remove-display-use-from-the-AVP-demo.patch
        2. 3.2.1.2 Linux Patches
          1. 3.2.1.2.1 0001-arm64-dts-ti-k3-j784s4-vision-apps-Re-enable-DSS-for.patch
      2. 3.2.2 Host Setup
      3. 3.2.3 Target Setup
      4. 3.2.4 Recreation
    3. 3.3 Debugging QoS
      1. 3.3.1 CPTracer
        1. 3.3.1.1  Setup
        2. 3.3.1.2  Profiling Throughput
        3. 3.3.1.3  Profiling Latency
        4. 3.3.1.4  Profiling Transactions
        5. 3.3.1.5  Profiling Relevant Routes
        6. 3.3.1.6  Profiling DSS Throughput
          1. 3.3.1.6.1 Theoretical DSS Throughput
          2. 3.3.1.6.2 Normal DSS Throughput
          3. 3.3.1.6.3 DSS Throughput with the AVP Demo Running
        7. 3.3.1.7  Profiling DSS Latency
        8. 3.3.1.8  Profiling C7x Throughput
        9. 3.3.1.9  Profiling C7x Throughput vs DSS Latency
        10. 3.3.1.10 Profiling C7x_4 Core Transactions
      2. 3.3.2 Editing QoS Settings
        1. 3.3.2.1 Editing Order ID
          1. 3.3.2.1.1 DSS Order ID
          2. 3.3.2.1.2 C7x Order ID
        2. 3.3.2.2 NRT and RT Routing
          1. 3.3.2.2.1 NRT and RT Routing in U-Boot
        3. 3.3.2.3 Editing Priority
          1. 3.3.2.3.1 DSS Priority
          2. 3.3.2.3.2 C7x Priority
      3. 3.3.3 Editing CoS Mappings
        1. 3.3.3.1 CoS Mapping Registers
        2. 3.3.3.2 Checking CoS Mappings
    4. 3.4 Fixing the DSS Sync Losts
      1. 3.4.1 Remap C7x_4 Core Transactions
        1. 3.4.1.1 ti-u-boot-2023.04
        2. 3.4.1.2 ti-u-boot-2025.01
      2. 3.4.2 Honor All Priorities
        1. 3.4.2.1 ti-u-boot-2023.04
        2. 3.4.2.2 ti-u-boot-2025.01
  7. 4Summary
  8. 5References

3.3.1.8 Profiling C7x Throughput

Profiling the throughput of each separate C7x core can show what exactly is causing the DSS stalls.

The high throughput and high number of transactions sections can be causing the stalls.

Table 3-6 contains the settings required to filter for the separate C7x cores.

Table 3-6 C7x Route ID Values and Masks
C7x Core Route IDs Route ID Value Route ID Mask
All cores 0x20 to 0x2F 0x020 0xFF0
1 0x20 to 0x23 0x020 0xFFC
2 0x24 to 0x27 0x024 0xFFC
3 0x28 to 0x2B 0x028 0xFFC
4 0x2C to 0x2F 0x02C 0xFFC
All C7x Throughput Figure 3-9 All C7x Throughput
C7x_1 Throughput Figure 3-10 C7x_1 Throughput
C7x_2 Throughput Figure 3-11 C7x_2 Throughput
C7x_3 Throughput Figure 3-12 C7x_3 Throughput
C7x_4 Throughput Figure 3-13 C7x_4 Throughput

Looking at the above plots, it appears that C7x_4 is causing the stalls in the DSS. The high throughput sections appear to inversely match when the DSS throughput pattern.

Because it appears that the DSS is stalling due to the high throughput transactions sent from the C7x_4, let's take a closer look at C7x_4.