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01/21/2013

ML 07:30 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: Ethernet gadget - unable to connect to host PC
Hi,
There are two labels attached:
one says: 110264
the other: 80-000268RI-2 A
Seens to be something with the otg connector in the B revision...
regards
Mads-l
Mads Olav le Maire
MW 07:18 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: Ethernet gadget - unable to connect to host PC
Hello Mads,
Sorry for the delay. Can you please post the part number for your board? On some of our older boards there was a problem with the USB_ID pin on the OTG connector. Let's make sure that's not the issue.
There is inform...
Michael Williamson
MW 07:22 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) PCB Development: RE: Voltagelevel for EMA (PowerGroup B - DVDD3318_B)
The EMIFA pins (PowerGroup B) are configured as 3.3V for all configurations of the MityDSP-L138 and MityARM-18XX family of SOMS. Michael Williamson
MW 07:20 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: Profibus Matser development on the Profibus DevKit
Hi Jeremy,
We have not done anything here with Profibus Master on the AM1810. TI provides a 3rd party vendor for the AM1810 Profibus PRU drivers. I believe they have tested their firmware using the MityDSP-1810 on an Industrial I/O ...
Michael Williamson

01/17/2013

GG 11:36 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: Creating FPGA Base-Project - core manager problem
Hi Christian,
We do not currently distribute the vhdl for the MDK cores that are missing from that project. We do, however, distribute the netlists, which will allow you to build that project. Include the netlists from MDK\fpga\cores\...
Gregory Gluszek
MF 11:05 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: TFTP (or FTP) Server
Yes, I have used that.
We are developing an embedded product. Our application code will run from startup. It will create files. We are also developing a companion application on a host PC to communicate with the embedded application....
Mary Frantz
MW 10:50 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: TFTP (or FTP) Server
Normally, we use scp to transfer files to a remote server on the ARM.
You can configure ssh keys to allow transfers without having to type a password in, if you need it.
-Mike
Michael Williamson
MF 10:04 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: TFTP (or FTP) Server
How do you start a tftp (or ftp) server on the ARM? Or how do you transfer files to a remote server programmatically? I need to have the server start up automatically or be started from a function call, not from a shell command line.
...
Mary Frantz
TE 11:03 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: Bootcmd break
That is exactly what I need. Thanks Mike. Tim Eastham
MW 11:01 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: Bootcmd break
Tim,
Just hit a key and break and load the code manually?
If you want the FPGA to be loaded, then we often make a separate script for loading the fpga, e.g:
setenv progfpga 'sf probe 0;sf read 0xc0700000 0x580000 0x80000;loadfpg...
Michael Williamson
TE 10:51 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: Bootcmd break
I am presently storing the firmware in non-volatile memory when I hand it off for testing. The problem is, sometimes I need to just download some code into ram to test. Is there a way to provide an opportunity to break in a bootcmd? H... Tim Eastham

01/16/2013

03:21 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: RE: DHCP is erratic in uboot
Just to let you know that if you set the phy register 9 (1000Base-T Control) to 0x0000 (turn off advertisement
for 1000 full/half duplex), then DHCP will work in uboot. I'm still looking into DHCP at gig settings.
John C.
Anonymous
02:41 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: RE: DHCP is erratic in uboot
Thanks Tim,
I've been beating my head against a wall for a bit so hopefully there will be something good
there.
John C.
Anonymous
TI 02:37 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: RE: DHCP is erratic in uboot
John
There is quite a long discussion on the TI e2e site about this very subject. I suspect some of it will be pertinent to your situation.... specifically the parts about the recv phy timings.
http://e2e.ti.com/support/dsp/sitara_arm1...
Tim Iskander
02:26 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: DHCP is erratic in uboot
We are having problem getting DHCP to work consistently on are board that uses the
the Mity AM3359 module (and our KSZ9021RL Phy). Port 0 failing is normal but when
port 1 finishes autoneg, I see the DHCP requests go out on the line an...
Anonymous
JC 04:33 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: How Can I use UART0 & UART2 in MityDSP-L138F?
jong sung choi wrote:
> hi mike. thank you but
> ...
jong sung choi
JC 04:32 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: How Can I use UART0 & UART2 in MityDSP-L138F?
hi mike. thank you but
I just did you notice to me "Network configuration" article.
It can changed Ethernet config 2 to 3 or 3 to 2 but it can not changed 2 or 3 to 0. is it normal?
jong sung choi

01/15/2013

MW 07:14 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: How Can I use UART0 & UART2 in MityDSP-L138F?
You should be able to disable the ethernet device by setting the ethernet configuration in u-Boot to indicate no ethernet according to "this wiki page":http://support.criticallink.com/redmine/projects/arm9-platforms/wiki/Network_configur... Michael Williamson
JC 01:07 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: How Can I use UART0 & UART2 in MityDSP-L138F?
Hi I'm currently using your MityDSP-L138F SOM with custom baseboard which I designed.
In Our Baseboard UART0(pin 81 txd, pin 83 rxd) connected to GPS receiver and UART2(pin 59 txd, pin 61 rxd) connected to Modem some reason.
I'm succ...
jong sung choi
ML 06:48 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: Ethernet gadget - unable to connect to host PC
Hi,
I have problems connecting to the industial IO/AM1808 card using device USB. I have built the kernel and the ethernet gadget module from git (3.2.x) - the module loads without any errors - I do get a usb0 network device right away...
Mads Olav le Maire
ML 04:12 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
Thanks,
Missed that one - it's working.
Mads-l
Mads Olav le Maire

01/14/2013

CR 03:46 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: Creating FPGA Base-Project - core manager problem
Hi Greg,
i opend the "build_lcd_rev_c" example project and migrate it to the 14.4 version. I think the migrtion works but there are some files needed what i can't find in the MDK.
see the attached picture. Therfore i couldn't try to ...
Christian Rückl

01/13/2013

DG 09:39 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: Debugging DSP in VirtualBox?
I have being using SD XDS510 USB + VirtualBox 4.1.16 + CCS 5.2.0 with no problems. Dmitry Gorulko
GG 05:07 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: Creating FPGA Base-Project - core manager problem
Hi Christian,
The ISE Webpack license should be sufficient for what you are trying to do.
Try opening one of the projects in MDK\examples\industrial_io\fpga\build_* and see what that tells you. You will most likely be asked to mi...
Gregory Gluszek

01/12/2013

CR 02:23 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: Creating FPGA Base-Project - core manager problem
Hi,
I've started with the FPGA-design in ISE Webpack 14.4.
I added all files from "MDK_2012-08-10\fpga\vhdl" to the project and also the "EMIFA_dcm.xco" file. I tried to regenerate this core in my project but I don't know why, but i...
Christian Rückl
CR 02:11 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: DSP Link example not working
Mike,
I got it and it's working now :)
Thanks.
Christian
Christian Rückl
CR 02:10 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: u-Boot configuration for DSP-Startup
Tim,
It's working now.
Thanks!
Christian
Christian Rückl

01/10/2013

MW 12:18 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: PRU Kernel Driver
The PRU drivers are not installed. You'll need to rebuild the kernel. You may need to patch in the PRU drivers as well.
-Mike
Michael Williamson
JY 11:20 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: PRU Kernel Driver
Do any of the kernels built by critical link have the PRU drivers installed? Or do I have to rebuild a kernel with this driver?
Jeremy
Jeremy Young
MW 08:14 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
Oh. You should be all set, see [[Setting_CPU_Speed]].
-Mike
Michael Williamson
ML 08:11 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
Hi,
Yes - both kernel settings is set to 'y'.
root@vdr:/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq# cat scaling_available_frequencies
456000 408000 372000 300000 200000 96000
Mads-l
Mads Olav le Maire
MW 07:58 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
Can you check if CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y is set in the 3.1 kernel configuration. Also can you confirm that the CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_GOV_USERSPACE=y?
can you also:
Michael Williamson
ML 02:24 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
Hi,
I am usually running the 3.1.x kernel that I build from the git repository downloaded from Critical link. Here are kernel logs for both this kernel and the kernel which resides in SPI-flash from factory.
I notice that the /sys/ke...
Mads Olav le Maire

01/09/2013

MW 03:13 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: RE: Critical Link Kernel integration w/ Angstrom/OpenEmbedded
So the simplest solution would be to build a "stock" image (minimal console image or something). That will at least get you a basic toolchain, bootable kernel and filesystem, and the open source software. Then you can add your own pack... Michael Williamson
AS 02:25 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: RE: Critical Link Kernel integration w/ Angstrom/OpenEmbedded
Ali Asgar Sohanghpurwala wrote:
> Hey Mike,
> ...
Sorry, I forgot to include the error message:
ERROR: Failure expanding variable SRCPV, expression was ${@bb.fetch2.get_srcrev(d)} which triggered exception FetchError: Fetcher failure:...
Ali Asgar Sohanghpurwala
AS 02:24 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: RE: Critical Link Kernel integration w/ Angstrom/OpenEmbedded
Hey Mike,
I tried to follow your tutorial on building Angstrom here:
http://support.criticallink.com/redmine/projects/armc8-platforms/wiki/Installing_Open_Embedded
And I ran into some snags. I think it fails because the svn repos...
Ali Asgar Sohanghpurwala
MC 11:38 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem
Dear all,
by the way, Greg was right saying that the GPIO core configuration I posted the first time could work (IndustrialIO_top file; a day ago): today I tried to reflash that file on fpga, and monitoring the outputs on the back con...
Michele Canepa
MW 10:07 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem
ON the bitfile generation, please make sure that your unused IOBs are "floating" and not pulled down or up.
-Mike
Michael Williamson
GG 09:58 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem
Hi Michele,
The only time I've experienced the board reseting due to an FPGA load is when I was mistakenly loading the wrong file (i.e. I tried to cat the .bit file instead of the .bin...). If you take the file you sent me and switch ...
Gregory Gluszek
MC 05:25 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem
Hi Greg,
thank you for the hint and the fast answer!
Now I have another problem: I modified the GPIO instantiation as you suggested, following the wiki link you submit: in particular I followed the "GPIOs as Outputs" template.
I suc...
Michele Canepa
MW 10:27 AM MityDSP (TI TMS320C6xxx Based Products) Software Development: RE: Where can I get user's manual and MDK files for Mitydsp-pro
Go to the Files tab on this project site and download and install the MityDSP_2_11_0.exe application.
This is a windows installation package and does include some documentation, software, libraries, and some example projects.
-Mike
Michael Williamson
HP 10:20 AM MityDSP (TI TMS320C6xxx Based Products) Software Development: Where can I get user's manual and MDK files for Mitydsp-pro
I bought 3 Mitydsp-pro moudles. When these moudles were shipped to me, no CDs or other kind of manuals are included.
So now I only have a simple datasheet MItyDSp-pro.Where can I get user's manual and MDK files for Mitydsp-pro?
Haib...
Haibo Pang
MW 09:06 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
What version of the kernel are you using? The pre-programmed one on FLASH? That version of the kernel may be older than the patch that adds support for upping the speed beyond 300 MHz.
Can you do a "dmesg" and dump the log file?
...
Michael Williamson
ML 08:03 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
This is the "factoryconfig" printout:
U-Boot > factoryconfig
Factory Configuration:
Config Version : 1.1
MAC Address : 00:50:C2:BF:8B:D2
Serial Number : 110009
FPGA Type : 0 [none]
Part Number : 1808-FX-225-RC
U-Boo...
Mads Olav le Maire

01/08/2013

GG 12:54 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem
Hi Michele,
The reason that you're not seeing the echo'ed value of the GPIO change is due to the way the core is connected. In order to solve this you will need to connect the o_io outputs of the GPIO core back to i_io. This was most ...
Gregory Gluszek
MC 09:53 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem
Sure Greg, thanks for the help!
The name is IndustrialIO_top, because I worked on it from your file..
Michele Canepa
GG 08:59 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: RE: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem
Hi Michele,
Could you post your VHDL instantiation of the GPIO core? Perhaps some of settings or ports were set incorrectly...
Thanks,
\Greg
Gregory Gluszek
MC 03:56 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) FPGA Development: FPGA GPIO: toggle problem
Dear All,
after I successfully created a GPIO core on the FPGA framework, burnt onto the FPGA, successfully enumerated the FPGA cores and installed the fpga_gpio kernel object, I was trying to toggle a GPIO pin on FPGA using userspace...
Michele Canepa
MW 09:48 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
In u-boot, run the command "factoryconfig".
-Mike
Michael Williamson
ML 09:31 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
Here is some information - cannot get any useful information from the bootlog.
*From Bootloader startup:*
Jumping to entry point at 0xC1080000.
U-Boot 2009.11 (Mar 31 2011 - 19:39:18)
I2C: ready
DRAM: 128 MB
NAND: 256 MiB
...
Mads Olav le Maire

01/07/2013

MF 12:38 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: MSGQ access
The answer was in the Makefile. I had to add in all the defines.
DEFINES=-DTRACE_ENABLE \
-DOS_LINUX \
-DMAX_DSPS=1 \
-DMAX_PROCESSORS=2 \
-DID_GPP=1 \
-DPROC_COMPONENT \
-DPOOL_COMPONENT \
-DNOTIFY_COMPONENT \
-DMPCS...
Mary Frantz
GG 09:20 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: MSGQ access
Hi Mary,
I think the reason you're getting a compiler error is because you're only including a single file from the DSPLink code. Take a look at the Makefile used to create the libdsp libraries (MDK/sw/ARM/linux/libdsp/Makefile) for ...
Gregory Gluszek

01/04/2013

MF 11:48 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: MSGQ access
Is there a way to use the MSGQ library? I would like to call MSGQ_locate() and MSGQ_close(). I have a project based on the HelloDSP example, but when debugging if I stop before the application ends, I get an error opening the message qu... Mary Frantz
MW 10:43 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
Hi Mads-l,
Can you print out the factory configuration information? Certain modules (Revision "A" silicon, IT silicon and lower speed grade options) do not support frequencies above 300 MHz (rev A silicon, 375 for IT silicon) and the...
Michael Williamson
ML 10:15 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: AM1808-industrilal I/O performance
I am currently testing network performance. Having installed the netperf utility in my root file system, I am able to test performance between my development machine and the Industrial i/O card.
Running netperf, measuring network thr...
Mads Olav le Maire

01/03/2013

JY 04:54 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: Profibus Matser development on the Profibus DevKit
Has there been any work done regarding a Profibus master on the MityArm AM1810? Jeremy Young

01/02/2013

SW 09:01 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) PCB Development: RE: SATA board connector
Alex,
I haven't had the opportunity to get a SATA connector for our board. That is the one I was looking at. I like to hear you were able to get it flush on the board. I will look into getting some and trying it out. Thanks, Scott
Scott Whitney

12/31/2012

BC 03:02 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: RE: 3359 Bootconfig pins
Exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks!
Brian
Brian Compter
CO 10:17 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) PCB Development: RE: Used EMIFA-Signals/Pins
That's great Mike - exactly what I hoped to hear :)
I was wondering if you had done precisely this given that the wiki said the non-FPGA modules would work. But I have an L138F here not an L138 so couldn't really check it myself and w...
Conor O
MW 08:10 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) PCB Development: RE: Used EMIFA-Signals/Pins
Hi Conor,
On the Non-FPGA modules, all 4 of these signals have a 1K Ohm series resistor between the on-board nets and the edge connector. This effectively makes putting a non FPGA module into a board like the Industrial I/O kit OK if...
Michael Williamson
CO 07:49 AM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) PCB Development: RE: Used EMIFA-Signals/Pins
In the case of the Industrial IO board though, pins 197 through 200 are tied directly to 3.3V for the VCCO_[0,1] bank connections to the FPGA. These correspond to: Conor O

12/28/2012

TI 04:32 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: RE: 3359 Bootconfig pins
Brian
You are correct that this information should be in the datasheet. In fact, there is an open issue "here":http://support.criticallink.com/redmine/issues/2660 about it. The boot pins 0-11 are brought out to the header. Their configu...
Tim Iskander
BC 03:38 PM MitySOM-335x (ARM Cortex-A8 Based Products) Software Development: 3359 Bootconfig pins
Is there documentation on the J106 header on the 3359 dev kit?
The quick start guide has one line about setting pin 4 to boot from the SD card but that is it. I would have thought this would be in the dev kit datasheet but was unable...
Brian Compter

12/27/2012

JS 01:51 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: Debugging DSP in VirtualBox?
Do you know of any emulators that are useable from within the current Oracle VirtualBox or is there a work around? It would be nice to use the same Virtual Box to develop for both the DSP and ARM. Jim Sheffler

12/26/2012

TC 03:55 PM MityDSP-L138 (ARM9 Based Platforms) Software Development: RE: SYSBIOS & Starterware
Hi Jean-Baptiste -
It would be my understanding that if you are going to use SYS/BIOS that you should start with a sys/bios project. Likely sys/bios needs to be initialized, etc. So, simply starting with starterware and adding a sys/...
Thomas Catalino
 

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