5.5. Elimination of floating bytes on the external interface

The PrimeCell MPMC uses the programmed external memory width of each bank and the endianness to determine which remaining bytes it requires to drive to ensure that the external bus is never floating. The input/output pads for the external write data bus lines are controlled by nMPMCDATAOUTEN[3:0] as shown in Table 5.32. Data is driven out on MPMCDATAOUT[31:0] when nMPMCDATAOUTEN is asserted LOW.

Table 5.32. MPMCDATAOUT[31:0] controlled by nMPMCDATAOUTEN[3:0]

nMPMCDATAOUTEN MPMCDATAOUT
[3][31:24]
[2][23:16]
[1][15:8]
[0][7:0]
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