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FCC3 e200z7 implementation

This course covers the e200z7 core present in NXP MPC56XX MCUs

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Objectives
  • This course has 5 main objectives:
    • Learning the exception mechanism, providing guidelines to implement nesting
    • Explaining the operation and initialization of the MMU and caches
    • Highlighting the cache coherency issues and explaining the snooping
    • Detailing low level programming, particularly the floating-point and SPE instructions
    • Describing the debug units.

  • ACSYS has developed an optimized SPE based FFT coded in assembler language.
  • For any information contact training@ac6-training.com
A more detailed course description is available on request at training@ac6-training.com
  • Experience of a 32-bit processor or DSP is mandatory.
  • 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

  • e200 core family
  • Main blocks, pipeline, MMU, cache, timers, debug unit
  • Prefetch queue
  • Decode / dispatch stage
  • Concurrent Instruction Issue Capabilities
  • In order execution
  • Completion, register write-back
  • Dynamic vs static branch prediction
  • Guarded memory
  • Building the exception vector table
  • Exception taking sequence
  • Implementing nesting among maskable interrupts
  • Reset sequence
  • Studying cache reload transients
  • Line-fill buffers
  • Memory synchronization
  • Spin-lock routine
  • Assigning attributes to pages
  • Assigning access permissions to page
  • Page protection
  • MMU-related exceptions
  • 64-entry, fully associative TLB
  • TLB software reload, using MAS registers
  • 4 way set-associative Harvard instruction and data caches
  • Data and instruction prefetch instructions
  • Cache software control, cache line lock
  • Coherency issues when cacheable pages are shared with DMA
  • Cache parity and EDC protection
  • Cache memory access via software
  • System integrity checking
  • Monitoring the internal CPU read and write buses
  • EABI, small sections
  • Tricky instructions
  • C coding guidelines
  • Half-precision floating-point format
  • Floating point simple precision & double precision scalar instructions
  • Floating point vector instructions
  • Fixed point vector instructions, fractional format
  • Vector data arrangement instructions
  • Managing a circular buffer
  • VLE storage addressing
  • MMU extensions
  • Summary of instruction set
  • 64-bit time base
  • Decrementer
  • Software watchdog
  • Performance monitor
  • Nexus Class 3+ real-time development unit
  • Hardware instruction and data breakpoints
  • Debug interrupt
  • Debug notify halt instruction
  • Using debug data acquisition message
  • Watchpoint programming
  • Instruction and data trace
  • Power-saving modes: doze, nap, sleep, and wait
  • Debug considerations for power management