ST_POWER_SPC58

 

ST_POWER_SPC58 training course

For:

•                  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 locations: 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.

Trainers are also experts able to assist customers throughout the design process

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

o          Power supply monitors

o          External regulators

o          Internal regulator with external ballast

o          Integrated switch mode voltage regulator (SMPS)

•           Reset

o          Reset phases

o          Reset Generation Module

o          Boot Assist Flash

o          System Status and Configuration Module (SSCM), UTEST flash, DCF records

•           Clocking

o          Oscillators

o          PLLs

o          Clock Generation Modules

o          Clock monitors

•           Power Management Controller digital interface

o          Power Control Unit (MC_PCU)

o          Mode Entry Module (MC_ME)

•           Wakeup Unit (WKPU)

•           IO pads

o          Hardware configuration

o          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.