SPRADS6A March   2026  – 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
  9. 6Revision History

3.3.2.2 NRT and RT Routing

Looking at the order IDs for the C7x_4 core (0) and DSS (15) transactions, it is possible to set DSS transactions as RT while keeping the C7x_4 core transactions as NRT. Drder IDs 0-4 should be routed to the NRT thread, while order IDs 10-15 should be routed to the RT thread.

It's simple to check whether DSS transactions are routed to the RT thread; we can read the NAVSS_NORTH_x_NBSS_NBx_MMRS_threadmap registers (using devmem2).

Table 3-9 North Bridge Thread Mapping Registers
RegisterAddressValue
NAVSS_NORTH_0_NBSS_NB0_MMRS_threadmap

0x03702010

0x00000002

NAVSS_NORTH_1_NBSS_NB1_MMRS_threadmap

0x03703010

0x00000004

These values mean SRAM and DDR transactions with order IDs 0-7 are mapped to the NRT thread, while SRAM transactions with order IDs 8-15 and DDR transactions with order IDs 10-15 are mapped to the RT thread. In other words, C7x_4 (order ID 0) transactions are mapped to the NRT thread, while DSS (order ID 15) transactions are mapped to the RT thread. Therefore, DSS transactions should have greater priority than C7x_4 transactions at all times.