RM0091 Cyclic redundancy check calculation unit (CRC)
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5.3 CRC functional description
Figure 5. CRC calculation unit block diagram
The CRC calculation unit has a single 32-bit read/write data register (CRC_DR). It is used to
input new data (write access), and holds the result of the previous CRC calculation (read
access).
Each write operation to the data register creates a combination of the previous CRC value
(stored in CRC_DR) and the new one. CRC computation is done on the whole 32-bit data
word or byte by byte depending on the format of the data being written.
The CRC_DR register can be accessed by word, right-aligned half-word and right-aligned
byte. For the other registers only 32-bit access is allowed.
The duration of the computation depends on data width:
● 4 AHB clock cycles for 32-bit
● 2 AHB clock cycles for 16-bit
● 1 AHB clock cycles for 8-bit
An input buffer allows to immediately write a second data without waiting for any wait states
due to the previous CRC calculation.
The data size can be dynamically adjusted to minimize the number of write accesses for a
given number of bytes. For instance, a CRC for 5 bytes can be computed with a word write
followed by a byte write.
The input data can be reversed, to manage the various endianness schemes. The reversing
operation can be performed on 8 bits, 16 bits and 32 bits depending on the REV_IN[1:0] bits
in the CRC_CR register.
For example: input data 0x1A2B3C4D is used for CRC calculation as:
0x58D43CB2 with bit-reversal done by byte
0xD458B23C with bit-reversal done by half-word
0xB23CD458 with bit-reversal done on the full word
The output data can also be reversed by setting the REV_OUT bit in the CRC_CR register.
The operation is done at bit level: for example, output data 0x11223344 is converted into
0x22CC4488.
MS19882V1
Data register (output)
32-bit (read access)
CRC computation
Data register (input)
32-bit (write access)
AHB bus
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