The 64-bit ECC protection applies to both AXI interfaces. If all eight bytes are being written, a new ECC value is generated (on per 64-bit aligned basis) and written to the ECC part of memory. If a sub-64 bit write transaction is requested (less than 8 bytes), the controller reads the associated 64-bit data from the RAM, modifies it, and writes it back with a new ECC value. If the read part of the read-modify-write sequence detects an uncorrectable error, the write is not performed and the controller responds by asserting the APB bus error signal back to the source.
Error Reporting
If a correctable/uncorrectable error is detected during read, the read address is captured in the OCM controller. For a correctable error, an optional system interrupt can be generated. For uncorrectable errors, a SLVERR response is generated.
Subsequent errors generate an error signal and a SLVERR response, but if the previous read error address is not cleared by software, then any follow-on read error address is lost.
Error Injection
Software can inject 1-bit or 2-bit errors per 64-bit (an ECC word) based on register values (64+8 bits). The 72 bits are XOR-ed with data and syndrome bits being written.