Can the TMS320C6727 processor boot from 32-bit wide flash? The only applications I have seen use 16-bit wide flash, but boot time is a concern my customer is looking at now.
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Can the TMS320C6727 processor boot from 32-bit wide flash? The only applications I have seen use 16-bit wide flash, but boot time is a concern my customer is looking at now.
A two-stage boot approach may help here. During the first stage, the ROM bootloader would load a secondary bootloader from an external device. The secondary bootloader can configure the EMIF for 32-bit operation and boot the real application then.
Would it be possible to implement a two-stage boot approach, where a secondary bootloader (customized for 32-bit operation) could be loaded from an I2C or SPI EEPROM on the customer board?
It might also be possible, but tricky, to do implement a two-stage boot using a 32-bit flash. During the first stage, the ROM bootloader would read the secondary bootloader from treat the 32-bit flash, treating it as 16-bit. This is tricky because the data in the flash would have to be arranged such that 16 out of every 32 bits are not used.