1Overview 2-------- 3- BSC9131 is integrated device that targets Femto base station market. 4 It combines Power Architecture e500v2 and DSP StarCore SC3850 core 5 technologies with MAPLE-B2F baseband acceleration processing elements. 6- It's MAPLE disabled personality is called 9231. 7 8The BSC9131 SoC includes the following function and features: 9. Power Architecture subsystem including a e500 processor with 256-Kbyte shared 10 L2 cache 11. StarCore SC3850 DSP subsystem with a 512-Kbyte private L2 cache 12. The Multi Accelerator Platform Engine for Femto BaseStation Baseband 13 Processing (MAPLE-B2F) 14. A multi-standard baseband algorithm accelerator for Channel Decoding/Encoding, 15 Fourier Transforms, UMTS chip rate processing, LTE UP/DL Channel processing, 16 and CRC algorithms 17. Consists of accelerators for Convolution, Filtering, Turbo Encoding, 18 Turbo Decoding, Viterbi decoding, Chiprate processing, and Matrix Inversion 19 operations 20. DDR3/3L memory interface with 32-bit data width without ECC and 16-bit with 21 ECC, up to 400-MHz clock/800 MHz data rate 22. Dedicated security engine featuring trusted boot 23. DMA controller 24. OCNDMA with four bidirectional channels 25. Interfaces 26. Two triple-speed Gigabit Ethernet controllers featuring network acceleration 27 including IEEE 1588. v2 hardware support and virtualization (eTSEC) 28. eTSEC 1 supports RGMII/RMII 29. eTSEC 2 supports RGMII 30. High-speed USB 2.0 host and device controller with ULPI interface 31. Enhanced secure digital (SD/MMC) host controller (eSDHC) 32. Antenna interface controller (AIC), supporting three industry standard 33 JESD207/three custom ADI RF interfaces (two dual port and one single port) 34 and three MAXIM's MaxPHY serial interfaces 35. ADI lanes support both full duplex FDD support and half duplex TDD support 36. Universal Subscriber Identity Module (USIM) interface that facilitates 37 communication to SIM cards or Eurochip pre-paid phone cards 38. TDM with one TDM port 39. Two DUART, four eSPI, and two I2C controllers 40. Integrated Flash memory controller (IFC) 41. TDM with 256 channels 42. GPIO 43. Sixteen 32-bit timers 44 45The e500 core subsystem within the Power Architecture consists of the following: 46. 32-Kbyte L1 instruction cache 47. 32-Kbyte L1 data cache 48. 256-Kbyte L2 cache/L2 memory/L2 stash 49. programmable interrupt controller (PIC) 50. Debug support 51. Timers 52 53The SC3850 core subsystem consists of the following: 54. 32 Kbyte 8-way level 1 instruction cache (L1 ICache) 55. 32 Kbyte 8-way level 1 data cache (L1 DCache) 56. 512 Kbyte 8-way level 2 unified instruction/data cache (M2 memory) 57. Memory management unit (MMU) 58. Enhanced programmable interrupt controller (EPIC) 59. Debug and profiling unit (DPU) 60. Two 32-bit timers 61 62BSC9131RDB board Overview 63------------------------- 64 1Gbyte DDR3 (on board DDR) 65 128Mbyte 2K page size NAND Flash 66 256 Kbit M24256 I2C EEPROM 67 128 Mbit SPI Flash memory 68 USB-ULPI 69 eTSEC1: Connected to RGMII PHY 70 eTSEC2: Connected to RGMII PHY 71 DUART interface: supports one UARTs up to 115200 bps for console display 72 USIM connector 73 74Frequency Combinations Supported 75-------------------------------- 76Core MHz/CCB MHz/DDR(MT/s) 771. 1000/500/800 782. 800/400/667 79 80Boot Methods Supported 81----------------------- 821. NAND Flash 832. SPI Flash 84 85Default Boot Method 86-------------------- 87NAND boot 88 89Building U-boot 90-------------- 91To build the u-boot for BSC9131RDB: 921. NAND Flash with sysclk 66MHz(J16 on RDB closed, default) 93 make BSC9131RDB_NAND 942. NAND Flash with sysclk 100MHz(J16 on RDB open) 95 make BSC9131RDB_NAND_SYSCLK100 963. SPI Flash with sysclk 66MHz(J16 on RDB closed, default) 97 make BSC9131RDB_SPIFLASH 984. SPI Flash with sysclk 100MHz(J16 on RDB open) 99 make BSC9131RDB_SPIFLASH_SYSCLK100 100 101Memory map 102----------- 103 0x0000_0000 0x7FFF_FFFF DDR 1G cacheable 104 0xA0000000 0xBFFFFFFF Shared DSP core L2/M2 space 512M 105 0xC100_0000 0xC13F_FFFF MAPLE-2F 4M 106 0xC1F0_0000 0xC1F3_FFFF PA SRAM Region 0 256K 107 0xC1F8_0000 0xC1F9_FFFF PA SRAM Region 1 128K 108 0xFED0_0000 0xFED0_3FFF SEC Secured RAM 16K 109 0xFEE0_0000 0xFEE0_0FFF DSP Boot ROM 4K 110 0xFF60_0000 0xFF6F_FFFF DSP CCSR 1M 111 0xFF70_0000 0xFF7F_FFFF PA CCSR 1M 112 0xFF80_0000 0xFFFF_FFFF Boot Page & NAND Buffer 8M 113 114DDR Memory map 115--------------- 116 0x0000_0000 0x36FF_FFFF Memory passed onto Linux 117 0x3700_0000 0x37FF_FFFF PowerPC-DSP shared control area 118 0x3800_0000 0x4FFF_FFFF DSP Private area 119 120 Out of 880M, passed onto Linux, 1hugetlb page of 256M is reserved for 121 data communcation between PowerPC and DSP core. 122 Rest is PowerPC private area. 123 124Flashing Images 125--------------- 126To place a new u-boot image in the NAND flash and then boot 127with that new image temporarily, use this: 128 tftp 1000000 u-boot-nand.bin 129 nand erase 0 100000 130 nand write 1000000 0 100000 131 reset 132 133Using the Device Tree Source File 134--------------------------------- 135To create the DTB (Device Tree Binary) image file, 136use a command similar to this: 137 138 dtc -b 0 -f -I dts -O dtb bsc9131rdb.dts > bsc9131rdb.dtb 139 140Likely, that .dts file will come from here; 141 142 linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/boot/dts/bsc9131rdb.dts 143 144Booting Linux 145------------- 146Place a linux uImage in the TFTP disk area. 147 148 tftp 1000000 uImage 149 tftp 2000000 rootfs.ext2.gz.uboot 150 tftp c00000 bsc9131rdb.dtb 151 bootm 1000000 2000000 c00000 152