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FCQ5 P4080 QorIQ implementation

This course covers NXP QorIQ P4040 and P4080

Objectives
  • This course has 6 main objectives:
    • Describing the hardware implementation, particularly the boot sequence and the DDR3 controller
    • Understanding the features of the internal interconnect and related units and mechanisms such as PAMU, CPC and stashing
    • Describing the units which are interconnected to other modules, such as clocking, interrupt controller and DMA controller, because the boot program generally has to modify the setting of these units
    • Explaining the standard bus interface controllers, PCIe, SRIO, USB and MMC-SD
    • Clarifying the operation of the Datapath Acceleration Architecture that assists the processor core in taking in charge buffer allocation, queue management, frame management and particularly incoming frame classification, pattern searching, and encryption
    • Describing the various debug units and their utilization to fix errors in a multicore / multimaster SoC.

  • Products and services offered by ACSYS:
    • ACSYS is able to assist the customer by providing consultancies
    • Typical expertises are done during board bringup, hardware schematics review, software debugging, performance tuning.
    • Note that ACSYS has delivered several consultancies on NXP Netcomm SoCs to companies developing avionic equipments.
A more detailed course description is available on request at training@ac6-training.com
This document is necessary to tailor the course to specific customer needs and to define the exact schedule.
  • Experience of a 32-bit processor or DSP is mandatory.
  • Note that the e500mc Power core is covered in a separate course reference FCC1 - e500mc implementation course.
  • Theoretical course
    • PDF course material (in English) supplemented by a printed version for face-to-face courses.
    • Online courses are dispensed using the Teams video-conferencing system.
    • The trainer answers trainees' questions during the training and provide technical and pedagogical assistance.
  • At the start of each session the trainer will interact with the trainees to ensure the course fits their expectations and correct if needed
  • Any embedded systems engineer or technician with the above prerequisites.
  • The prerequisites indicated above are assessed before the training by the technical supervision of the traineein his company, or by the trainee himself in the exceptional case of an individual trainee.
  • Trainee progress is assessed by quizzes offered at the end of various sections to verify that the trainees have assimilated the points presented
  • At the end of the training, each trainee receives a certificate attesting that they have successfully completed the course.
    • In the event of a problem, discovered during the course, due to a lack of prerequisites by the trainee a different or additional training is offered to them, generally to reinforce their prerequisites,in agreement with their company manager if applicable.

Course Outline

  • Block diagram
  • Internal architecture
  • CoreNet coherency fabric
  • Coherency subdomains
  • Memory map, local access windows
  • Multicore processing scenarios
  • Power management control
  • Configuration signals sampled at reset
  • Reset configuration words source
  • Pre-boot loader
  • Clocking, system clock domains
  • Dynamically changing core clocks
  • SerDes high speed lanes configuration
  • Objectives of trust architecture
  • Secure boot sequence
  • External tamper detection
  • Run time integrity checker
  • Operation as memory-mapped SRAM
  • Partitioning between coherency domains
  • Stashing
  • Soft error detection and correction
  • Controlling master access permissions through Logical I/O Device Number
  • Address translation
  • Descriptor organization
  • Operation mode translation
  • Steps in processing of DSA operations by pamu
  • PAMU caches
  • Interrupt nesting
  • Description of the 4 timers / counters
  • Message interrupts
  • e500-to-e500 interrupt capability
  • DUART
  • I2C controller
  • eSPI controller
  • Transfer protocol, single block, multiple block read and write
  • Internal and external DMA capabilities
  • SD protocol unit
  • Card insertion and removal detection
  • USB1 host only controller, USB2 host or device controller
  • EHCI support, scheduling the various transactions into frames
  • ULPI interface to external PHY
  • Endpoint configuration
  • Non-EHCI tuning control registers
  • DDR3 fly-by architecture, write leveling
  • ZQ calibration
  • Command truth table
  • Hardware interface
  • Initial configuration following Power-on-Reset
  • Controller interleaving support
  • Address decode unit
  • Timing parameters programming
  • Multiplexed or non-multiplexed address and data buses
  • Connecting 8- and 16-bit devices
  • Burst support
  • GPCM, UPMs states machines
  • NAND flash controller
  • Priority between the 4 channels
  • Scatter / gathering
  • Selectable hardware enforced coherency
  • Ability to start DMA from external 3-pin interface
  • Acting as a bridge when Root Complex
  • Transaction ordering rules
  • Programming inbound and outbound ATMUs
  • Benefits of MSIs
  • Low power management
  • Configuration, initialization
  • Enhanced error reporting
  • RapidIO port
  • Message Unit, direct vs chaining mode operation
  • RapidIO doorbell and port-write unit
  • Programming inbound and outbound ATMUs
  • Data formats
  • Frame formats
  • Packet walk through
  • DPAA Configuration and initialization
  • Objectives if this accelerator
  • Structure of frame queues
  • Active and suspended frame queues
  • Frame queue descriptor, frame queue descriptor cache
  • Frame queue state machine
  • Work queues and channels
  • Enqueue and dequeue portals
  • Utilization of rings
  • Dequeue dispatcher operation
  • Message ring
  • • Congestion avoidance, Weighted Random Early Discard
  • • Order definition point implementation
  • Objectives if this accelerator
  • Central resource pool management function
  • Per-pool stockpile
  • CoreNET software portals
  • Direct connect portals
  • Buffer Pool State Change Notifications
  • Objectives if this accelerator
  • FMAN submodules
  • Rx BMI features
  • Tx BMI features
  • Offline parsing, host command features
  • Frame processing manager
  • FMan controller
  • Parser
  • Key generator
  • Policer
  • Frame format with and without VLAN option
  • Connection to packet FIFO interface
  • Physical interfaces
  • 256-entry hash table for unicast and multicast
  • Accessing PHY registers
  • RMON statistic counters, carry registers
  • Client IEEE1588 timers
  • XAUI interface to PHY
  • Multicast address filtering
  • Dynamic inter packet gap (IPG) calculation
  • MAC address insertion
  • Support for VLAN
  • IEEE 1588 timestamping
  • Introduction to DES, 3DES and AES algorithms
  • Job management using QMan interface
  • Input / output rings
  • Cryptographic operations
  • Data movement, FIFOs
  • Scatter / gather DMA
  • Selecting the authentication / cryptographic algorithm
  • Run Time Integrity Checking
  • Example, implementing IPSec
  • Objective of this unit, identifying signatures in incoming gigabit streams
  • Connection to QMan and BMan
  • Ability to track stateful relationships between patterns found in the data it scans
  • Updating the pattern database
  • Definition of a regular expression
  • Comparing the string under inspection with the programmed patterns
  • Processing pipeline, work units
  • Pattern Matcher Frame Agent
  • Pattern description block caching
  • Key Element Scanner
  • Data Examination Engine
  • Stateful Rule Engine
  • Introduction to NEXUS specification
  • NEXUS Aurora link
  • Event processing unit
  • Watchpoint facility
  • Trace buffer
  • Event Combining for the Creation of Advanced Triggers
  • Cross-Functional Debug Components
  • DDR SDRAM interface debug, measuring per-master bandwidth