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FCQ11 P102X QorIQ implementation

This course covers NXP QorIQ P1020/P1011, P1021/P1012, P1022/P1013, P1023/P1017, P1024/P1015, P1025/P1016

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Objectives
  • The course clarifies the architecture of the P102X, particularly the operation of the coherency module that interconnects the e500s to memory and high-speed interfaces.
  • Cache coherency protocol is introduced in increasing depth.
  • The e500 core is viewed in detail, especially the SPE unit that enable vector processing.
  • The boot sequence and the clocking are explained.
  • The course focuses on the hardware implementation of the P102X.
  • A long introduction to DDR SDRAM operation is done before studying the DDR2/3 SDRAM controller.
  • An in-depth description of the PCI-Express port is done.
  • The course highlights both hardware and software implementation of gigabit / fast / Ethernet controllers.
  • Communication interfaces are explained according to the exact reference of the SoC: either TDM or QuiccEngine or DPAA.

  • AC6 has developed an optimized SPE based FFT coded in assembler language.
  • Performance for 1024 complex floating point single precision samples is:
    • - 91_386 core clock cycles without reverse ordering, 94_124 with reverse ordering
  • Performance for 4096 complex floating point single precision samples is:
    • - 470_778 core clock cycles without reverse ordering, 511_227 with reverse ordering
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A more detailed course description is available on request at training@ac6-training.com
Prerequisites and related courses

INTRODUCTION TO P102X
SOC ARCHITECTURE
  • Internal data flows, OCEAN switch fabric, packet reordering
  • Implementation examples
  • Address map, ATMU, OCEAN configuration
  • Local vs external address spaces, inbound and outbound address decoding
e500 CORES
THE INSTRUCTION PIPELINE
  • Dual-issue superscalar operation
  • Execution units
  • Dynamic branch prediction
DATA AND INSTRUCTION PATHS
  • The Core Complex Bus
  • Store miss merging and store gathering
  • Memory access ordering
  • Lock acquisition and import barriers
THE MEMORY MANAGEMENT UNIT
  • The first level MMU and the second level MMU, consistency between L1 and L2 TLBs
  • TLB software reload
  • Process protection
  • 36-bit real addressing
CACHES
  • The L1 caches
  • Software cache coherency
  • Level 2 cache
  • Allocation of data transferred by external masters into the cache: stashing
  • e500 coherency module
  • Snooping mechanism
  • Stashing mechanism
  • L2 cache locking
PROGRAMMING
  • Differences between the new Book E architecture and the classic PowerPC architecture
  • Floating Point units, Double-Precision FP
  • Signal Processing APU (SPE)
EXCEPTIONS
  • Book E exception handling
  • Syndrome registers
  • Core timers
DEBUGGING
  • Performance monitoring
  • JTAG emulation
  • Watchpoint logic
INFRASTRUCTURE
RESET, CLOCKING AND INITIALIZATION
  • Platform clock
  • Voltage configuration selection
  • Power-on reset sequence, using the I2C interface to access serial ROM
  • Power management
  • eSDHC boot
  • eSPI boot ROM
e500 COHERENCY MODULE
  • I/O arbiter
  • CCB arbiter
  • CCB interface
DDR3 SDRAM MEMORY CONTROLLER
  • On-Die termination
  • Calibration mechanism
  • Mode registers initialization, bank selection and precharge
  • Command truth table
  • Hardware interface
  • Bank activation, read, write and precharge timing diagrams, page mode
  • ECC error correction
  • Initialization routine
ENHANCED LOCAL BUS CONTROLLER
  • Multiplexed or non-multiplexed address and data buses
  • Dynamic bus sizing
  • GPCM, UPMs states machines
  • NAND flash controller
PCI EXPRESS INTERFACE
  • 4-lane PCI Express interface
  • Modes of operation, Root Complex / Endpoint
  • Transaction ordering rules
  • Programming inbound and outbound ATMUs
PROGRAMMABLE INTERRUPT CONTROLLER
  • PIC in multiple-processor implementation
  • Understanding interrupt masking
  • Interprocessor interrupts
  • Per-CPU register usage, message registers
  • Nesting implementation
INTEGRATED DMA CONTROLLER
  • Support for cascading descriptor chains
  • Scatter / gathering
  • Selectable hardware enforced coherency
PERFORMANCE MONITOR AND DEBUG FEATURES
  • Threshold events
  • Chaining, triggering
  • Watchpoint facility
  • Trace buffer
INPUTS/OUTPUTS
THE ETHERNET CONTROLLERS
  • Address recognition, pattern matching
  • Buffer descriptors management
  • Physical interfaces
  • Buffer descriptor management
  • 256-entry hash table for unicast and multicast
  • Management of VLAN tags and priority, VLAN insertion and deletion
  • Quality of service, managing several transmit and receive queues
  • TCP/IP offload engine, filer programming
  • IEEE1588 compliant time-stamping
ENHANCED SECURE DEVICE HOST CONTROLLER
  • Storing and executing commands targeting the external card
  • Multi-block transfers
  • Moving data by using the dedicated DMA controller
  • Dividing large data transfers
USB CONTROLLER
  • EHCI implementation
  • Periodic Frame List
  • ULPI interfaces to the transceiver
  • OTG support
  • Endpoints configuration
SECURITY ENGINE
  • Crypto channels
  • Sequence to subcontract a crypto job to SEC
  • Link tables
  • Managing interrupts
LOW SPEED PERIPHERALS
  • Description of the NS16552 compliant Uarts
  • I2C controller
  • Enhanced SPI controller
TDM INTERFACE (P1022/P1013 AND P1024/P1015)
  • Serial interface
  • Network mode of operation with up to 128 time-slots
  • DMA configuration
  • End-of-frame interrupt
  • Configuring the TDM for I2S Operation
DISPLAY INTERFACE UNIT (P1022/P1013)
  • Display interfaces
  • Display color depth
  • Pixel structure, alpha-blending
  • Utilization of area descriptor
  • Moving images through the dedicated DMA channel
QUICC ENGINE (P1021/P1012 AND P1025/P1016)
OVERVIEW OF QUICC ENGINE
  • Integrated RISC CPU
  • Communication between Host CPU and QE RISC CPU
INTEGRATED INTERRUPT CONTROLLER
  • Priority management
  • Steering the interrupt source to either Low priority or High priority input of the platform PIC
SYSTEM INTERFACE AND CONNECTION TO EXTERNAL COMMUNICATION PORTS
  • Serial DMA
  • QUICC engine external requests
  • NMSI vs TDM
  • Enabling connections to TSA or NMSI
BUFFER MANAGEMENT
  • Utilization of Buffer Descriptors
  • Chaining descriptors into rings
  • Parameter RAM independent of protocol
UNIFIED COMMUNICATION CONTROLLERS
  • UCC as slow communications controllers, UART mode
  • UCC for fast protocols, virtual FIFOs
UCC HDLC CONTROLLER
  • Flow control
  • Setting global parameters
  • Describing the parameter RAM
UCC TRANSPARENT CONTROLLER
  • Transparent data encapsulation, frame sync and frame CRC
  • Describing the parameter RAM
SERIAL INTERFACE
  • Connecting TDM lines
  • Parameterizing the timings related to Rx/Tx clock, sync and data signals
  • Connecting the TDM line to UCC using Rx/Tx routing tables
MULTI-CHANNEL CONTROLLER ON UCC - UMCC
  • Comparison with MCC and QMC
  • Connecting time-slots to logical channels through Rx/Tx routing tables
  • Implementing Rx/Tx channel buffers
  • Interrupt management
  • Channel-specific HDLC parameters
  • Per channel exception management
  • UMCC host commands
DATAPATH PROCESSING SUBSYSTEM (P1023/P1017)
DPAA OVERVIEW
  • Definitions: buffer, buffer pool, frame, frame queue, work queue, channel
  • Data formats
  • Frame formats
  • Packet walk through
QUEUE MANAGER
  • Objectives if this accelerator
  • Frame description
  • Structure of frame queues
  • Frame queue state machine
  • Multiway resource arbiter
  • Work queues and channels
  • Enqueue and dequeue portals
  • Class and intra-class scheduling rules
  • Dequeue dispatcher operation
  • Message ring
  • Stash transaction flow control and scheduling
  • Congestion avoidance
  • CoreNet initiator scheduling and priority
BUFFER MANAGER
  • Objectives if this accelerator
  • Software portals
  • Direct connect portals
  • Software interface, Command register, Management Response registers
  • Buffer Pool State Change Notifications
  • Buffer pool size programming
  • Performance Monitor
FRAME MANAGER
  • Objectives if this accelerator, parsing, classifying and distributing in-line/off-line packet
  • FMAN submodules
  • Rx BMI features
  • Tx BMI features
  • Offline parsing, host command features
  • Frame processing manager
  • FMan controller
  • Parser
  • Key generator
  • Policer
DATA PATH THREE-SPEED ETHERNET CONTROLLERS
  • MAC address recognition
  • 256-entry hash table for unicast and multicast
  • Suspending the transmitter, handling pause packets
  • RMON statistic counters, carry registers
  • Client IEEE1588 timers
SECURITY ENGINE
  • Job management using QMan interface
  • Input / output rings
  • Job descriptor parsing
  • Sharing descriptors
  • Selecting the authentication / cryptographic algorithm
  • Public Key Hardware Accelerator (PKHA)
  • SNOW 3G Accelerator
  • Example, implementing IPSec