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GR-LEON4-ITX

Development Board

Quick Start Guide

AEROFLEX GAISLER AB

Rev. 0.2, 2010-06-16

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Page 1: ...GR LEON4 ITX Development Board Quick Start Guide AEROFLEX GAISLER AB Rev 0 2 2010 06 16...

Page 2: ...s which may result from its use No license is granted by implication or otherwise under any patent or patent rights of Aeroflex Gaisler AB Aeroflex Gaisler AB tel 46 31 7758650 Kungsgatan 12 fax 46 31...

Page 3: ...M USER GUIDE 11 3 1 Overview 11 3 2 Debian Operating System 11 3 3 Logging in to the system 11 3 4 Shutting down the System 12 3 5 Graphical Interface X Window System 12 3 6 Network Interface 12 3 7 S...

Page 4: ...cy of 100 MHz should it not be 200 MHz 31 6 2 Interfaces 31 Software freezes when initializing the Ethernet Interface 31 I have problem X when using the USB Debug Communication Link 31 The system free...

Page 5: ...Board 7 Figure 2 2 User JTAG headers 8 Figure 2 3 Setting the EDCL IP address 9 Figure 2 4 GRMON after connect 10 Figure 5 1 Selecting a SnapGear template configuration 21 REVISION HISTORY Revision D...

Page 6: ...ON4 ITX data package and this document including possibly newer revisions are available from the GR LEON4 ITX product page at http www gaisler com 1 2 References RD 1 LEON4 ASIC DEMO Data sheet and Us...

Page 7: ...stem Overview The GR LEON4 ITX board s SPI boot PROM has been programmed with boot loader that loads an image of the Linux kernel into main memory and then boots the kernel The Linux kernel then mount...

Page 8: ...to the first Ethernet port the lower port Booting Linux The bootloader will start Linux when the power adapter is attached to the board Please skip to section 3 for usage instructions Section 5 1 cont...

Page 9: ...rface Please see the GRMON User s Manual for how to set up the required USB driver software Then connect to the board using the command grmon usb Connecting via serial UART Please refer to the GR LEON...

Page 10: ...rt Guide Using GRMON The GRMON User s Manual describes the capabilities of GRMON Section 4 of this document describes some usage scenarios for GRMON on the GR LEON4 ITX board Aeroflex Gaisler AB June...

Page 11: ...ss Pager program similar to more To install this application we now issue to install applications you must be logged in as the super user apt get install less This will fetch the application from a pu...

Page 12: ...ow manager right click on the mouse will bring up the menu Other window managers can be started by editing the xsession file in the home directory for the user account home user xsession If the file i...

Page 13: ...efault ntpdate If the board cannot be connected to a network with an NTP server the time can be set manually with the commands date set 2008 10 10 date set 14 00 00 The commands must be run as the sup...

Page 14: ...isler Research USB UHCI controller Gaisler Research GR USB 2 0 Device Controller Gaisler Research USB Debug Comm Link Gaisler Research Gaisler CAN with DMA Gaisler Research Fast 32 bit PCI Bridge Gais...

Page 15: ...onfigured the DDR2 controller to use 256 MiB of DDR2 SDRAM memory 4 2 Running an application In this example we will compile and run an application of our own The procedure for downloading other appli...

Page 16: ...tter with values suitable for the GR LEON4 ITX board Command Description i2c 3 dvi init l4itx_dvi Initialize the DVI transmitter for IDF 2 input data 16 bit color depth and monitor connected via digit...

Page 17: ...ustom format undefined grlib svga draw test_screen 2 16 Drawing picture test_screen Depth 16 bits Format 640x480 60 Hz Framebuffer memory pos 0x40200000 grlib svga draw test_screen 8 16 Drawing pictur...

Page 18: ...0C0C4A S315000000101010101014141414181818181C1C1C1C3A S315000000202020202024242424282828282C2C2C2C2A S315000000303030303034343434383838383C3C3C3C1A S315000000404040404044444444484848484C4C4C4C0A S3150...

Page 19: ...rlib wmem 0xc0000614 0x99 The meaning of these write operations can be found by reading the I2C slave manual The connections made above connected I2CM1 to the slave GRMON enumerates I2CM1 as I2C core...

Page 20: ...e is serial terminal Root filesystem is a memory image containing a Busybox system does not mount USB Flash stick Table 5 1 SnapGear template configurations To be able to easily create a Linux configu...

Page 21: ...39 professional version Copyright C 2004 2008 Aeroflex Gaisler all rights reserved For latest updates go to http www gaisler com Comments or bug reports to support gaisler com ethernet startup Found A...

Page 22: ...0x40000000 grlib run Booting Linux Booting Linux PROMLIB Sun Boot Prom Version 0 Revision 0 Linux version 2 6 21 1 jan jan gcc version 3 4 4 17 SMP Tue Mar 16 15 28 21 CET 2010 ARCH LEON TYPE Leon2 3...

Page 23: ...t 0 got 8 bytes ttyS1 at MMIO 0xc0000200 irq 3 is a Leon Testing fifo size for UART port 1 got 8 bytes RAMDISK driver initialized 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize loop loaded max 8 devices Pr...

Page 24: ...access the Hardware Clock via any known method Use the debug option to see the details of our search for an access method Cleaning up ifupdown Loading device mapper support Checking file systems fsck...

Page 25: ...node 4 ambapp0 type ambapp props node device_type name node 5 cpu01 type cpu props node device_type mid clock frequency PROM Built device tree from rootnode 1 with 1813 bytes of memory DEBUG psr impl...

Page 26: ...usbhc ehci 0 Gaisler Research EHCI Host Controller grusbhc ehci grusbhc ehci 0 new USB bus registered assigned bus number 1 grusbhc ehci grusbhc ehci 0 irq 6 io base 0xc0100300 grusbhc ehci grusbhc eh...

Page 27: ...ion parameters is left as an exercise for the reader The command line options for MKPROM2 to be used with the GR LEON4 ITX are mkprom2 v freq 100 stack 0x4ffffff0 pnp 0xffeff800 ddr2spa_cfg1 0x96a0861...

Page 28: ...sh detect Got manufacturer ID 0x20 and Device ID 0x2017 No device match for READ ID instruction trying RES instruction Found matching device ST Numonyx M25P64 grlib spim flash load prom out section te...

Page 29: ...x kernel image that U boot can handle U Boot needs a header to know how to interpret the binary images The images support compression and CRC verifying To create an image the mkimage tool must be in t...

Page 30: ...o It is also possible to update the u boot image using GRMON First interact with U boot and issue the commands sf probe 0 sf erase 400000 200000 Then the Linux image can be built with make ARCH sparc...

Page 31: ...r unit there therefore GRMON reports the system frequency as 100 MHz the processor cores still run at 200 MHz 6 2 Interfaces Software freezes when initializing the Ethernet Interface Software that rel...

Page 32: ...s setting the Ethernet Debug Communication Link s EDCL IP address The address used by U boot can be changed by attaching a USB keyboard and pressing any key during the first seconds of system boot U b...

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