CRC option of RX linker

Question

Is there any way to calculate particular CRC-codes for different sections? 
 I like to use different CRC codes for boot section and for normal program memory. 
 for example: 
 CRC1 located at 0xFF7FFFFC for boot ROM (0xFF7FC000-0xFF7FFFFB) 
 CRC2 located at 0xFFFF0000 for program ROM (0xFFFF0002-0xFFFFFFFF) 
 Is there any linker option or subcommand to do this? 
 
 Thanks in advance for your aswers. 
 Best regards.

oraut · Accepted Answer

Hey, 
 So I have used the on-board CRC before for a bootloadable project. 
 What I did was use the on board CRC unit to calculate CRC-16 and also use the linker option to place the calculated CRC by the linker at a given location in memory. I chose CRC-16 because somehow that was the only one whose value matched to the on-board CRC calculation. 
 If you are using e2Studio, then this should be available via the Renesas Tool Settings > Linker > Output > Advanced > Select whether to generate CRC Code : Yes (CRC-16, Automatic endian). This CRC-16 is the polynomial 0x8005. Specify the output address and the target range as " FFFE0000-FFFFBFFB ". This should add the option "-crc=FFFFBFFC=FFFF0002-FFFFFFFF/16" to the Converter options. 
 I would recommend CRC only for the program ROM because it's not possible to reprogram the USER BOOT ROM while the MCU is running. Which would mean that you would have to consider the CRC for a separate project/ mot file. 
 Let us know if this helps. Please note that the debug file generated will not load the CRC value at the location, but the output file generated will contain the CRC value at the location. You can verify this through the MOT file.