Re: To test the Flash

Where are your bootloader and OS stored? In the flash that you want to
test? You realize that writing values to every location will destroy them,
right? Generally, for testing RAM, you'd do that in the bootloader, before
you have a full OS running, before the MMU is turned on, etc. I suppose
that you could destroy the contents of flash as part of that same testing
process, if you wanted to. Seems like maybe you haven't thought this out,
though...

Paul T.

"Jeyanthi Jayakumar" <JeyanthiJayakumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message news:8B1D103A-E263-4414-9482-AC913C1CA2ED@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In my application, I want to test the Flash and SRAM memory for their
proper
working. So what we thought was to write 0xAA to all the locations and
read
it back the values and if it is right then we can understand that Flash is
working fine.

But my doubt is to execute this process i need to download the code to
SDRAM
and run from SDRAM. Is it possible to download the code to SDRAM and run
from
ti to test the FLASH. Because i don't want to write anything into the
flash
before it is tested. Can anyone suggest me the best method?

Thanks in advance,
Jeyanthi Jayakumar.


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