xSPI external memories Flasher support and Benchmark

The purpose of this master thesis is to enhance the capabilities of the Flasher Software Tool, used to flash the Aurix microcontrollers, by adding support for external memories programming for Infineon Aurix TC4Dx microcontrollers, which support the xSPI interface. Once this feature is implemented and supported by the Flasher, executing code directly from the external memory becomes feasible. To evaluate the performance impact, a benchmark based on Coremark was executed. This benchmark allows to measure the performance of code execution from external memory in comparison to execution directly from the microcontroller’s internal memory. The results provide a clear comparison, highlighting the differences in execution efficiency and performance.