CMD-5xx 08/07/02
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Getting Started
See the
README.TXT
file on the CD provided with this board for all the documentation and support files provided.
See also the PM-5xx Personality Module Reference for your platform specific information, including BDM and CMFI (on-chip
flash) programming support.
This section assumes that you have just received your board from the manufacturer. If this is not the case then jumpers and switches
may have been changed so that the board may not function as expected. In this case, see the "Option Switches and Jumpers " section
of this manual and return everything to "default" positions before proceeding.
To get started quickly, perform the following test now to make sure the board is working correctly:
1.
Connect one end of the supplied 9-pin serial cable to a free COM port on your PC. Connect the other end of the cable to
the COM-1 port on the board.
2.
Run a standard ANSI terminal communications program set to 9600 baud, N,8,1. Any terminal program will work,
including the simple terminal that comes with MS Windows (HyperTerminal) or the one supplied on the support CD with
this board.
3.
Apply power to the board by plugging in the wall plug power transformer that came with the system.
4.
After a few seconds delay, if everything is working properly, you should see the main utilities menu, similar to the
following:
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AXIOM CMD-5XX UTILITIES
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1. Debug Monitor
2. On-Chip CMFI Flash Programming
3. External Flash Programming
4. Test Hardware
Select:
Your board is now ready to use! If you do not see the monitor prompt, press then release the RESET button on the board. If still no
go, or if the text is garbage, see the
TROUBLESHOOTING
section of this manual. The MEM bank should contain the “Axiom
MON5xx” EPROM’s and this bank only should be assigned CS0 to boot the utilities.
Software Development
The example monitor / utility software initializes the clock to run this board at 20 MHz on power-up. The board has been tested and
does run at speeds up to 40 MHz however, which you can set by changing the PLL Register in your software.
Software development on the CMD-5xx is best performed using a BDM tool connected to the BDM-PORT connector on the PM-
5xx module. This provides real-time access to all hardware, peripherals and memory on the board. BDM software is also available
for high-level source code debugging. Contact the manufacturer for more information.
If a BDM is not available, software development can be done using the included simple monitor program to upload your code to ram
and execute it or program it into EEPROM.
In either case, software is usually uploaded to RAM and executed during development, then programmed into EEPROM to execute
when power is applied.
