AM335x SYSBIOS Industrial SDK 01.00.00.08 Release Notes

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AM335x SYSBIOS Industrial SDK 01.00.00.08 Release Notes

May 2, 2013

Introduction

The SYSBIOS-based software development kit (SDK) for industrial communications is designed for the Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor family to enable customers add real-time industrial communications easily and quickly to their system. By making all the basic system software components immediately available, the Kit allows developers to focus on their application code, where they can add the most differentiation. Optimized to support real-time industrial communications protocols such as EtherCAT, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet/IP and many others, the SDK includes a real-time, low-footprint SYSBIOS kernel with boot loader and sample industrial applications to get started quickly.

Device Support

The following devices are supported with the current release.

• SOC's supported
  • AM335x
• Hardware Platform Supported
  • AM335x IDK (also known as IA EVM)
  • AM335x ICE 
    

Obtaining the Release Package

• AM335x SYSBIOS Industrial SDK Download Page

Documentation

The following documents are provided with this release.

• AM335x Industrial SDK Getting Started Guide
• AM335x Industrial SDK User Guide
  

What Is Supported

• Hardware Platform
  • AM335x IDK (also known as IA EVM)
  • AM335x ICE
• SYSBIOS 6.33.05.46 Real Time Operating System
  • VFP, MMU, L1/L2 cache, INTC support
  • XDC Tools 3.23.03.53
• Starterware boot loader
  • Boot from MMC/SD for IDK
  • Boot from SPI flash and NOR flash for ICE
• Starterware based drivers integrated with SYSBIOS
  • PRUSS
  • Timer
  • UART
  • GPIO
  • I2C
  • Ethernet
    
• EtherCAT Slave Controller
  • Beckhoff Slave Stack Version 5.01
  • PRU Firmware load from SPI flash
    
  • EtherCAT Commands
  • 8 FMMU support in Firmware
  • 8 SM support in Firmware (stack support only 4)
  • 8KB process data RAM
  • Distributed clocks
    • 64-bit DC
    • SYNC0 out generation single shot and cyclic mode support
    • SYNC1 out generation - SYNC1 cycle time multiple of SYNC0 cycle time
    • Latch0 and Latch1 inputs
  • DL Loop Control
    • Using PRU-ICSS MDIO state m/c (slow)
    • Using MII_RX_LINK (fast - depending on PHY link loss detection latency)
    • Enhanced link detection support using TLK105/TLK106/TLK110 PHY RX_ERR threshold counting feature
    • Enhanced link detection in EtherCAT firmware
  • EEPROM Emulation
    • SPI flash non-volatile storage support
    • Provisions to use volatile storage for debug and development
  • Interrupts – AL/ECAT events
  • Watchdog – PDI and SM
  • Error Counters – all key counters
  • LED – Run, Error and Port0/1 activity based on firmware feedback
  • CoE, EoE, FoE and CiA402
  • Management Interface for PHY over EtherCAT
  • PHY address configuration and host side PRU-ICSS MDIO API for PHY programming
  • Redundancy support validated using PG2.x silicon
  • Application upgrade over FoE complying to SEMI TWG guidelines (not resetting PRU-ICSS)
• Profibus DP Slave Controller
  • Evaluation PROFIBUS DP slave stack library file from TMG
  • Baud rates 12M, 6M, 3M, 1.5M, 500k, 187.5k, 93.75k, 45.45k 19.2k, 9.6k
  • Telegram size Up to 244 bytes
  • DPv0 support Cyclic exchange of data and diagnosis
  • DPv1 support Acyclic/cyclic data exchange and alarm handling
  • Response time 11-bit minimum TSDR response time
  • Watchdog 10ms time base
  • Get diagnostics and extended diagnostics
• Powerlink Slave
  • openPOWERLINK Stack Version V1.7.1.
  • Data link layer and NMT state machine for controlled nodes.
  • SDO via EPL ASND frames.
  • openMAC and openHUB
  • API for PHY programming.
  • Interoperable with B&R X20BC slaves.
  • Interoperable with openPOWERLINK master and B&R PLC (Power Panel 500)
  • Run LED
  • Cycle time till 400 us
• Sample Applications
  • HTTP Server
    
  • UART Echo
  • LED Control
  • EtherCAT slave
  • Profibus DP Slave
  • Powerlink Slave
• Host Development Platform And Toolchain
  • CCS V5.2 on Windows PC
  • TI TMS470 Codegen Tool 4.9.5 for Cortex-A8 (part of CCS5.2)

What Is Not Supported

• In general, peripherals or features not mentioned as part of "What is Supported" section are not supported in this release.
• For EtherCAT Slave Controller, the following features are not supported in this release. These are planned to be supported in upcoming releases
  • Distributed Clocks (DC)
    • System Time difference filter depth (0x934) other than 0,2,4 and 8
    • Speed Counter filter depth (0x935)- Not used by EtherCAT firmware
  • ECAT side register protection when using LRD command
  • APRW/FPRW/BRW for SM mapped area
• For Powerlink Slave, following feautures are not supported in this release
  • SDO over UDP.
  • Shared Buffer functionality
  • OpenMAC doesn’t have Collision detection functionality implemented yet.
• For PROFIBUS DP Slave, the following features are not supported in this release
  • DP-V2 support for asynchronous mode and data exchange
  • PA support
  • Set_Slave_Add (SAP 55) support

New In This Release

• EtherCAT
  • CiA402 device example support
  • Process path and auto-forward path forwarding latency improvements
  • Bug fixes

Fixed In This Release

Issue Identifier	Issue Description	Status
SDOCM00100666	EtherCAT:PDI side WD never expires	Fixed
SDOCM00100671	EtherCAT: Writing 0 to 0x920 (System Timeoffset) clears 0x913:0x910 and 0x913:0x910 writable from ECAT	Fixed
SDOCM00099316	EtherCAT:PDI access on unused registers	Fixed
SDOCM00099232	EtherCAT: Latch status (0x9AE) is not updated in single shot latch mode	Fixed
SDOCM00100958	EtherCAT: Upper 32-bit of Latch time stamp is not updated occasionally	Fixed
SDOCM00100975	EtherCAT: Upper 32-bit of System Time (0x913:0x910) is not updated occasionally when read from PDI side	Fixed
SDOCM00100965	EtherCAT: AL Event Request / Watchdog PD Status bit indicates 'expired' even when PD Watchdog is disabled	Fixed
SDOCM00099574	SDK: GetDevName() API returning wrong values	Fixed
SDOCM00100967	SDK: SPI Flash driver not handling lengths other than multiples of 256 properly	Fixed

Known Issues And Limitations

Issue Identifier	Issue Description	Workaround
SDOCM00093324	Powerlink: Connection for SDO transfer between master and slave may fail to establish sometimes	None
SDOCM00093325	Powerlink: OpenHub fails to forward non-powerlink or large sized frames	None
SDOCM00100922	Powerlink: Multiple slaves in a chain will not work for EVMs with PG2.x silicon	None
SDOCM00092510	EtherCAT: Single datagram accessing multiple FMMU mapped areas	Split the access spanning multiple FMMUs to seperate datagrams
SDOCM00098105	EtherCAT: PDI/PD watchdog counter incremented by 1 whenever PDI/PD watchdog is disabled	None
SDOCM00098950	EtherCAT:LRD access on unused registers increment WKC - no register protection while using LRD	None
SDOCM00099055	EtherCAT: EEPROM Error Write Enable bit is not cleared by writing any command to command bits	Write "000" to command bits 0x502[10:8]
SDOCM00097012	EtherCAT: SYNC0 jitter varies with distance of slave from reference	None
SDOCM00100692	EtherCAT: Hot connect of TI slave to chain in DC Sync mode does not work	Do a manual INIT to OP transition after hot connect
SDOCM00100969	EtherCAT: Latch Time register update missed occasionally	None

More details on EtherCAT known issues can be found here

Dependencies

Refer to System Requirements section in AM335x Industrial SDK Getting Started Guide.

Technical Support and Product Updates

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