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As explained above, the SCU is in charge to assign resources before loading the images.
This means that the SCFW must be customized and rebuilt in order to assign required resources and pins to the M4.
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Before the building stage, we propose the following additional patch
cd imx-scfw-porting-kit/src
wget {{#var:SCFW_PATCH_URL}}/{{#var:SCFW_M4_PATCH}}
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patch -p1 < ../{{#var:SCFW_M4_PATCH}}


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Revision as of 11:03, 11 February 2020

DART-MX8M - MCUXpresso 2.5.1

Overview

MCUXpresso SDK

MCUXpresso SDK board support provides example applications for NXP development and evaluation boards for Arm Cortex-M cores. Board support packages are found inside of the top level boards folder, and each supported board has its own folder (MCUXpresso SDK package can support multiple boards). Within each <board_name> folder there are various sub-folders to classify the type of examples they contain. These include (but are not limited to):

  • cmsis_driver_examples: Simple applications intended to concisely illustrate how to use CMSIS drivers.
  • demo_apps: Full-featured applications intended to highlight key functionality and use cases of the target MCU. These applications typically use multiple MCU peripherals and may leverage stacks and middleware.
  • driver_examples: Simple applications intended to concisely illustrate how to use the MCUXpresso SDK’s peripheral drivers for a single use case.
  • rtos_examples: Basic FreeRTOS OS examples showcasing the use of various RTOS objects (semaphores, queues, and so on) and interfacing with the MCUXpresso SDK’s RTOS drivers
  • multicore_examples: Simple applications intended to concisely illustrate how to use middleware/multicore stack

MCUXpresso.png

Here we describe how to use ARM GCC toolchain, officially supported following Getting Started with MCUXpresso SDK i.MX 8M Devices.pdf.


Prerequisites

Before starting, prepare a Yocto boot SD (Sumo or newer).

To allow Cortex M4 accessing shared resources without experiencing Linux kernel conflicts, a dedicated device tree must be loaded, by selecting the right version with the symbolic link in the /boot folder of the booting media.
These device trees contain m4 label in their name.


The below table lists an example dtb blob file name for DART-MX8M (on DT8MCustomBoard rev. 1.3 and higher) with support for M4 (and SD card and LVDS), for each kernel version / Yocto release:

File Name
 Description
imx8mq-var-dart-dt8mcustomboard-m4-sd-lvds.dtb For kernel >= 5.4.85 (Yocto >= Dunfell)
imx8mq-var-dart-m4-sd-lvds.dtb For kernel = 5.4.24 (Yocto Zeus)
fsl-imx8mq-var-dart-m4-sd-lvds.dtb For kernel = 4.19.35 (Yocto Warrior)
Image.gz-fsl-imx8mq-var-dart-m4-sd-lvds.dtb For kernel = 4.14.98 (Yocto Sumo)

For the full list of device tree blob files, refer to the "Build Results" section in the appropriate wiki page for the specific Yocto/Debian release you are using.

Installing required packages

Install cmake 

sudo apt-get install cmake

Download and install GNU-ARM bare-metal toolchain: 

mkdir ~/var-mcuxpresso
cd ~/var-mcuxpresso
wget https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-rm/7-2018q2/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update-linux.tar.bz2
tar xvf gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update-linux.tar.bz2

Download MCUXpresso SDK for the SOM: 

cd ~/var-mcuxpresso
git clone https://github.com/varigit/freertos-variscite -b mcuxpresso_sdk_2.5.x-var01
cd freertos-variscite

Documentation

Original NXP documentation is available online or in the following folder: 

~/var-mcuxpresso/freertos-variscite/docs

Available demos

All of the Variscite examples are located under the following folder 

~/var-mcuxpresso/freertos-variscite/boards/dart_mx8mq

Default M4 pins used by the demos are:

Function Pin
debug UART (UART2) RX: J12.6 / TX: J12.4
GPIO (GPIO4_IO03) LED7 for DT8MCustomBoard 1.x
U43.2 / R228 for DT8MCustomBoard >= 2.0 (Use Oscilloscope to observe output signal)
I2C (I2C3) SCL: J12.18 / SDA: J12.20
PWM (PWM2) J14.3

The available demos for DART-MX8M are:

  • driver_examples/i2c/interrupt_b2b_transfer/slave
  • driver_examples/i2c/interrupt_b2b_transfer/master
  • driver_examples/i2c/polling_b2b_transfer/slave
  • driver_examples/i2c/polling_b2b_transfer/master
  • driver_examples/wdog
  • driver_examples/gpio/led_output
  • driver_examples/tmu/tmu_monitor_report
  • driver_examples/pwm
  • driver_examples/uart/auto_baudrate_detect
  • driver_examples/uart/interrupt
  • driver_examples/uart/interrupt_rb_transfer
  • driver_examples/uart/polling
  • driver_examples/uart/interrupt_transfer
  • driver_examples/gpt/timer
  • driver_examples/gpt/capture
  • driver_examples/ecspi/ecspi_loopback
  • driver_examples/qspi/polling_transfer
  • driver_examples/rdc
  • driver_examples/sema4/uboot
  • rtos_examples/freertos_ecspi/ecspi_loopback
  • rtos_examples/freertos_hello
  • rtos_examples/freertos_queue
  • rtos_examples/freertos_sem
  • rtos_examples/freertos_generic
  • rtos_examples/freertos_uart
  • rtos_examples/freertos_tickless
  • rtos_examples/freertos_mutex
  • rtos_examples/freertos_event
  • rtos_examples/freertos_swtimer
  • rtos_examples/freertos_i2c
  • cmsis_driver_examples/i2c/int_b2b_transfer/slave
  • cmsis_driver_examples/i2c/int_b2b_transfer/master
  • cmsis_driver_examples/uart/interrupt_transfer
  • cmsis_driver_examples/ecspi/int_loopback_transfer
  • multicore_examples/rpmsg_lite_str_echo_rtos
  • multicore_examples/rpmsg_lite_pingpong_rtos/linux_remote
  • demo_apps/hello_world

Almost all of the above demos are also available for EVK-MIMX8MQ.

You can build and run the demos following official NXP documentation for EVK-MIMX8MQ, available online or in the following document: 

~/var-mcuxpresso/freertos-variscite/docs/Getting Started with MCUXpresso SDK i.MX 8M Devices.pdf

Building a demo

For any demo just follow this steps: 

cd ~/var-mcuxpresso/freertos-variscite/boards/dart_mx8mq
cd <demo_folder>
cd armgcc
export ARMGCC_DIR=~/var-mcuxpresso/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update
./build_all.sh > /dev/null

You can choose any <demo_folder> from the list available in the previous section.

Then copy the ".bin" to the boot media (either the SD or eMMC) in the /boot folder already hosting the Linux device trees.

Memory types

The SDK allow linking using 2 different memory types: DDR, TCM.

Here is available a short summary of memory areas used by Cortex-M4 as described in related linker file.

memory type M4 memory area A53 memory area memory lentgh linker file
DDR 0x80000000-0x801FFFFF (code)
0x80200000-0x803FFFFF (data)
0x80400000-0x80FFFFFF (data2) 		0x80000000-0x801FFFFF (code)
0x80200000-0x803FFFFF (data)
0x80400000-0x80FFFFFF (data2) 		16MB (DDR) MIMX8MQ6xxxJZ_cm4_ddr_ram.ld
TCM 0x1FFE0000-0x1FFFFFFF (code)
0x20000000-0x2001FFFF (data)
0x80000000-0x80FFFFFF (data2) 		0x007E0000-0x007FFFFF (code)
0x00800000-0x0081FFFF (data)
0x80000000-0x80FFFFFF (data2) 		256kB (TCM) + 16MB (DDR) MIMX8MQ6xxxJZ_cm4_ram.ld

All linker files are locate in the armgcc folder of each demo.

The DDR reserved area must match the one declared in the kernel device tree: at least 2 GB of RAM is required on the SoM to allow Cortex-M4 accessing the range 0x80000000 - 0x80FFFFFF.

The RPMSG area is located at 0xB8000000: at least 3 GB of RAM is required on the SoM to allow Cortex-M4 accessing the RPMSG area. After launching the build_all.sh command the following folder will be created in the armgcc folder

  • ddr_debug: containing DDR binaries compiled in debug mode (not stripped: symbols available)
  • ddr_release: containing DDR binaries compiled in release mode (stripped: no symbols available)
  • debug: containing TCM binaries compiled in debug mode (not stripped: symbols available)
  • release: containing TCM binaries compiled in release mode (stripped: no symbols available)

Further details about memory mapping are available in the following i.MX 8M Applications Processor Reference Manual paragraphs:

  • 2.1.2 Cortex-A53 Memory Map
  • 2.1.3 Cortex-M4 Memory Map

Running a demo

To allow Cortex M4 accessing shared resources without experiencing Linux kernel conflicts, a dedicated device tree must be loaded.

To enable Cortex M4: 

setenv use_m4 yes; saveenv

To disable Cortex M4: 

setenv use_m4 no; saveenv

Binary demos must be loaded to the memory type used for linking.

To use TCM: 

setenv m4_addr 0x7e0000; saveenv

To use DDR: 

setenv m4_addr 0x7E000000; saveenv

To set the name of the M4 binary 

setenv m4_bin myapp.bin; saveenv

The .bin file is expected in the folder /boot of the booting media.

The uboot boot command will take care to correctly load the M4 firmware and start Linux for DART-MX8M

Additional details and step by step procedure to run each of the demos is available online or in the following document: 

~/var-mcuxpresso/freertos-variscite/docs/Getting Started with MCUXpresso SDK i.MX 8M Devices.pdf

Debugging a demo

JTAG interface

Cortex M4 debugging requires JTAG.

The VAR-DT8MCustomBoard exports the DART-MX8M JTAG signals through J29, a standard 1.27" 10 pin header.

Here is the pinout:

pin signal description pin signal description
1 JTAG_VREF JTAG IO reference voltage,
connects to SOM_NVCC_3V3. 		2 JTAG_TMS JTAG Mode Select signal
3 GND Digital Ground 4 JTAG_TCK JTAG Clock signal,
requires 10K pull down.
5 GND Digital Ground 6 JTAG_TDO JTAG Data Out signal
7 GND Digital Ground 8 JTAG_TDI JTAG Data In signal
9 JTAG_NTRST_C JTAG Reset signal 10 NRST_CON Programmer Reset,
used to put the SOC in reset state.

Please refer to board schematics for further details.

Debugging GUI

A detailed step by step procedure to debug using SEGGER J-Link is available online or in the following document: 

~/var-mcuxpresso/freertos-variscite/docs/Getting Started with MCUXpresso SDK i.MX 8M Devices.pdf
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