FLASH rom write fail problem.

[Guest]

Dear All,
I am using MXIC MX29LV160BT/BB FLASH rom, sometimes the flash
rom write data will fail. I system blocks as below:


Memory Card => Card Reader => I/O detect interrupt => Read data to memory =>
Write data until finish.

I found our firmware will check the data after we write, and I check the
MIXC MX29LV160BT/BB SPEC, it will go with follow steps:

1. Write Data AAH
2. Write Data 55H
3. Write Data A0H
4. Write Program Data/Address
5. Data Poll from system
6. Verify Data Ok? if not then loop.

Can we guarantee the write data procedure is correct after step.6 ( Pass
Verify Data ) ?
If there is a hardware error( some bit(s) be enforced to high or low, etc ),
does it possible pass the step.6 ? What I want to say is, we already check
the target data is the same as source, so I think the hardware part is
correct, am I right?

Questionable:
1. Does the data from memory card correct?
2. Does memory allocation possible to be mixed?

These are only two reasons I can imagine...

Does any other possible thing?

Thank you so much for your help.

Best regards,
Boki.

 

[Le Chaud Lapin]

Dear All,
I am using MXIC MX29LV160BT/BB FLASH rom, sometimes the flash
rom write data will fail. I system blocks as below: [snipped]
Does any other possible thing?

1. Do you detect failure during the Verify stage or sometime later?
2. Are your timing loops debugged and tight according to the
specification?
3. What do mean about mixed allocation?

Barring a hardware defect (bus, etc.), the first thing I would look at
is your write stage timing.

-Chaud Lapin-

 

[Guest]

1. Check the FLASH data every bytes when finish write 1 byte.
2. No, no limit on this function.
3. Mixed other variable/array/buffer/ memory allocation, a disorderly memory
content.

For write stage timing, I found a description in MXIC spec:
---
The Automatic Programming algorithm makes the external system do not need to
have time out sequence nor to verify the data programmed.
---

Our firmware stratage is, write data, and then check data until it is
correct byte(s), and then go to write next data byte.
So, I guess, the write data command is correct on FLASH rom, why finally we
got a wrong flash rom data is because we write a lot wrong data to flash...

That is only what I can think about it now...

Thank you very much.

Best regards,
Boki.

Dear All,
I am using MXIC MX29LV160BT/BB FLASH rom, sometimes the flash
rom write data will fail. I system blocks as below: [snipped]
Does any other possible thing?

1. Do you detect failure during the Verify stage or sometime later?
2. Are your timing loops debugged and tight according to the
specification?
3. What do mean about mixed allocation?

Barring a hardware defect (bus, etc.), the first thing I would look at
is your write stage timing.

-Chaud Lapin-