Overview
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- BSC9131 is integrated device that targets Femto base station market.
It combines Power Architecture e500v2 and DSP StarCore SC3850 core
technologies with MAPLE-B2F baseband acceleration processing elements.
- It's MAPLE disabled personality is called 9231.
The BSC9131 SoC includes the following function and features:
. Power Architecture subsystem including a e500 processor with 256-Kbyte shared
L2 cache
. StarCore SC3850 DSP subsystem with a 512-Kbyte private L2 cache
. The Multi Accelerator Platform Engine for Femto BaseStation Baseband
Processing (MAPLE-B2F)
. A multi-standard baseband algorithm accelerator for Channel Decoding/Encoding,
Fourier Transforms, UMTS chip rate processing, LTE UP/DL Channel processing,
and CRC algorithms
. Consists of accelerators for Convolution, Filtering, Turbo Encoding,
Turbo Decoding, Viterbi decoding, Chiprate processing, and Matrix Inversion
operations
. DDR3/3L memory interface with 32-bit data width without ECC and 16-bit with
ECC, up to 400-MHz clock/800 MHz data rate
. Dedicated security engine featuring trusted boot
. DMA controller
. OCNDMA with four bidirectional channels
. Interfaces
. Two triple-speed Gigabit Ethernet controllers featuring network acceleration
including IEEE 1588. v2 hardware support and virtualization (eTSEC)
. eTSEC 1 supports RGMII/RMII
. eTSEC 2 supports RGMII
. High-speed USB 2.0 host and device controller with ULPI interface
. Enhanced secure digital (SD/MMC) host controller (eSDHC)
. Antenna interface controller (AIC), supporting three industry standard
JESD207/three custom ADI RF interfaces (two dual port and one single port)
and three MAXIM's MaxPHY serial interfaces
. ADI lanes support both full duplex FDD support and half duplex TDD support
. Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) interface that facilitates
communication to SIM cards or Eurochip pre-paid phone cards
. TDM with one TDM port
. Two DUART, four eSPI, and two I2C controllers
. Integrated Flash memory controller (IFC)
. TDM with 256 channels
. GPIO
. Sixteen 32-bit timers
The e500 core subsystem within the Power Architecture consists of the following:
. 32-Kbyte L1 instruction cache
. 32-Kbyte L1 data cache
. 256-Kbyte L2 cache/L2 memory/L2 stash
. programmable interrupt controller (PIC)
. Debug support
. Timers
The SC3850 core subsystem consists of the following:
. 32 Kbyte 8-way level 1 instruction cache (L1 ICache)
. 32 Kbyte 8-way level 1 data cache (L1 DCache)
. 512 Kbyte 8-way level 2 unified instruction/data cache (M2 memory)
. Memory management unit (MMU)
. Enhanced programmable interrupt controller (EPIC)
. Debug and profiling unit (DPU)
. Two 32-bit timers
BSC9131RDB board Overview
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1Gbyte DDR3 (on board DDR)
128Mbyte 2K page size NAND Flash
256 Kbit M24256 I2C EEPROM
128 Mbit SPI Flash memory
USB-ULPI
eTSEC1: Connected to RGMII PHY
eTSEC2: Connected to RGMII PHY
DUART interface: supports one UARTs up to 115200 bps for console display
USIM connector
Frequency Combinations Supported
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Core MHz/CCB MHz/DDR(MT/s)
1. 1000/500/800
2. 800/400/667
Boot Methods Supported
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1. NAND Flash
2. SPI Flash
Default Boot Method
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NAND boot
Building U-boot
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To build the u-boot for BSC9131RDB:
1. NAND Flash with sysclk 66MHz(J16 on RDB closed, default)
make BSC9131RDB_NAND
2. NAND Flash with sysclk 100MHz(J16 on RDB open)
make BSC9131RDB_NAND_SYSCLK100
3. SPI Flash with sysclk 66MHz(J16 on RDB closed, default)
make BSC9131RDB_SPIFLASH
4. SPI Flash with sysclk 100MHz(J16 on RDB open)
make BSC9131RDB_SPIFLASH_SYSCLK100
Memory map
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0x0000_0000 0x7FFF_FFFF DDR 1G cacheable
0xA0000000 0xBFFFFFFF Shared DSP core L2/M2 space 512M
0xC100_0000 0xC13F_FFFF MAPLE-2F 4M
0xC1F0_0000 0xC1F3_FFFF PA SRAM Region 0 256K
0xC1F8_0000 0xC1F9_FFFF PA SRAM Region 1 128K
0xFED0_0000 0xFED0_3FFF SEC Secured RAM 16K
0xFEE0_0000 0xFEE0_0FFF DSP Boot ROM 4K
0xFF60_0000 0xFF6F_FFFF DSP CCSR 1M
0xFF70_0000 0xFF7F_FFFF PA CCSR 1M
0xFF80_0000 0xFFFF_FFFF Boot Page & NAND Buffer 8M
Flashing Images
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To place a new u-boot image in the NAND flash and then boot
with that new image temporarily, use this:
tftp 1000000 u-boot-nand.bin
nand erase 0 100000
nand write 1000000 0 100000
reset
Using the Device Tree Source File
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To create the DTB (Device Tree Binary) image file,
use a command similar to this:
dtc -b 0 -f -I dts -O dtb bsc9131rdb.dts > bsc9131rdb.dtb
Likely, that .dts file will come from here;
linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/bsc9131rdb.dts
Booting Linux
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Place a linux uImage in the TFTP disk area.
tftp 1000000 uImage
tftp 2000000 rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot
tftp c00000 bsc9131rdb.dtb
bootm 1000000 2000000 c00000
765b0bdb89