ST_POWER_SPC58

Reference

ST_POWER_SPC58

ST POWER SPC5

Board designers

Software developers 

Duration

5 days, 7 hours a day

Min/Max number of participants

3-15

Educational process

Alternating lectures, trainer-driven hands-on practical examples, group interactions with the trainer, and self-reflection time.

Training location

For dedicated sessions at your training facilities, content can be tailored to further meet your needs.

(Contact us for public sessions or public seminars).

Certificate of Completion

A Certificate of Completion will be delivered upon completion of the training course.

Prerequisites and related courses

Experience with a processor or DSP is mandatory.

See courses POWER_CPU_E200Z0, POWER_CPU_E200Z425, POWER_CPU_E200Z4D (SPC58H), CVT_AA_CAN, NET_STD_PTP and NET_STD_ETH.

Learning objectives

This course explains the architecture of the SPC58 to enable participants to efficiently design a board and implement the integrated memory controllers and peripherals. The following MCUs are covered: SPC58xEx, SPC58xGx, SPC58xNx, SPC58xHx.

Hands-on

Based on SPC58NG-DISP board, GCC toolchain and Trace32 debugger.

Related products & services

Board design, schematics review, pre-layout review.

SoC performance improvement.

Bare-metal driver design.

ARCHITECTURE OF SPC58XX (1-hour)

• Computational shell
• Peripheral domain
• Memory hierarchy
• Software debug and calibration
• Peripheral buses
• Memory mapping

POWER, CLOCKING AND RESET (6-hour)

• Power supplies and reference voltages, power-up sequence
  • Power supply monitors
  • External regulators
  • Internal regulator with external ballast
  • Integrated switch mode voltage regulator (SMPS)
• Reset
  • Reset phases
  • Reset Generation Module
  • Boot Assist Flash
  • System Status and Configuration Module (SSCM), UTEST flash, DCF records
• Clocking
  • Oscillators
  • PLLs
  • Clock Generation Modules
  • Clock monitors
• Power Management Controller digital interface
  • Power Control Unit (MC_PCU)
  • Mode Entry Module (MC_ME)
• Wakeup Unit (WKPU)
• IO pads
  • Hardware configuration
  • GPIO

EMBEDDED MEMORIES (2-hour)

• Platform RAM controller
• Flash memory controller, flash organization
• Erase and program sequence
• Decorated Storage Memory Controller

Practical example: programming a flash erase and programming sequence

SYSTEM MODULES (5-hour)

• Interconnect parameterizing, introduction to AHB and APB buses
• XBAR switch and XBIC
• PBRIDGE
• System MPU, comparing with CMPU
• SIUL2
• Sharing exclusive resources: SEMA42 unit
• Interrupt controllers, 64 priority levels
• eDMA controller and DMAMUX

Practical example: configuring the eDMA to perform a memory-to-memory transfer triggered by a timer expiration

SAFETY MECHANISMS (3-hour)

Overview

• End-to-End ECC
• Lockstep, checker cores
• Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) Unit
• Memory Error Management Unit (MEMU)
• Indirect Memory Access (IMA)
• Fault Collection and Control Unit (FCCU)
• Self-Test Control Unit (STCU2)
• Register Protection (REG_PROT)

SECURITY (1-hour)

• Overview
• Password and Device Security Module (PASS)
• Tamper Detection Module (TDM)
• Hardware Security Module

ANALOG MODULES (3-hour)

• Overview of the integrated ADCs, sample transfer to memory using DMA channels
• Sigma-Delta Analog-to-Digital Converter
• Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter
• SARADC queued digital interface
• Temperature Sensor, determining device temperature
• Decimation filter

Practical example: programming a SAR acquisition sequence

FAST ETHERNET CONTROLLER (2-hour)

• Buffer management, buffer descriptors
• Connection to the PHY
• Auto-negotiation
• Received frame filtering
• Run-time statistics
• AVB support
• IEEE1588 frame timestamping

HARDWARE ACCELERATOR- AMU2 (1-hour)

• High performance floating-point arithmetic calculation engine
• AMU RAM (ARAM) memory storage
• Single-precision exponential function
• DMA channels to access operands and store results

COMMUNICATION MODULES (4-hour)

• CAN subsystem
• Serial Inter-Processor Interface (SIPI)
• ZipWire
• LVDS Fast Asynchronous Serial Transmission (LFAST)
• FlexRay
• De-serial Serial Peripheral Interface
• Inter-Integrated Circuit
• Peripheral Sensor Interface (PSI5)
• SENT Receiver (SRX)
• LINFlexD

• CALIBRATION AND DEBUG MODULES (2-hour)
• Buddy device
• e200z4256 Core Debug Support
• Debug and Calibration Interface
• JTAG Controllers
• Sequence Processing Unit (SPU)
• Development Trigger Semaphore (DTS)
• Nexus Aurora Router (NAR)
• GTM Development Interface
• Emulation and Debug Device Introduction

TIMER MODULES (5-hour)

• System Timer Module
• Software Watchdog Timer
• Periodic Interrupt Timer
• Overview of Generic Timer Module GTM343
• eMIOS

Learning delivery methods

• Lectures with supporting slides, use of projector.
• Review and execution of practical examples, provided by MOVE.B, using GCC compiler and Lauterbach Trace32 debugger.

Learning evaluation

• Trainees will participate in quizzes and learning checks at the end of each chapter.
• Each trainee will fill out and return a training evaluation form upon completion of the training course.

Trainer’s profile and expertise

• Our trainers regularly attend train-the-trainer courses with our partners to continuously improve their technical skills and knowledge on the latest components, technologies, and upcoming releases.

Course documentation

• Each attendee will receive a Participant Guide in pdf format.
• Learners should bring their laptops to the course; they will be able to navigate in the presentation and access the training content.
• Notepad and pen are provided.