AMIC110: Flashing EtherCAT demo to ICE board

Denny%20Yang99373

Expert 3805 points

Part Number: AMIC110

Hi all,

I want to make a ddr-less ethercat demo on amic110 ice board.

I want to use the prebuild binary to do this.

Here is my steps:

1,Burn C:\ti\ti-processor-sdk-rtos-am335x-evm-04.02.00.09\pdk_am335x_1_0_9\packages\ti\starterware\binary\bootloader\bin\amic110-ddrless\gcc\bootloader_boot_mcspi_noDDR_a8host_release_ti.bin to SPI FLASH offset 0x0

2,Burn C:\ti\PRU-ICSS-EtherCAT_Slave_01.00.05.00\pru_icss_ethercat_slave_prebuilt_01.00.05.00\applications\ethercat_slave_demo_arm\AMIC11x_release\app to SPI FLASH 0x20000

3, Use command "tiimage.exe 0x4a334000 NONE ecat_frame_handler.bin ecat_frame_handler_ti.bin" and "tiimage.exe 0x4a338000 NONE ecat_host_interface.bin ecat_host_interface_ti.bin" to modify the firmware at C:\ti\PRU-ICSS-EtherCAT_Slave_01.00.05.00\protocols\ethercat_slave\firmware\v1.0

4, Burn ecat_frame_handler_ti.bin to 0x19000 and ecat_host_interface_ti.bin to 0x14000

5, reboot the board. Nothing output.

My questions:

1, I want to burn

tiesc_eeprom_ti.bin

0x10000

But I can't find tiesc_eeprom_ti.bin or tiesc_eeprom.bin. Could you please send it to me?

2,Please help to check are there any mistake in my steps.

thanks!

BR,
Denny

over 6 years ago

0 Garrett Ding over 6 years ago

TI__Mastermind 43296 points

Hi Denny,

1) tiesc_eeprom.bin can be generated from ESI file using SSC Tool (www.ethercat.org/.../54FA3235E29643BC805BDD807DF199DE.htm ). Below is the detailed procedure:
a. Open SSC Tools
b. Go to Tools->EEPROM Programmer
c. In EEPROM Programmer, go to File->Open. Here select the TI_ESC.xml ESI file from the path “[IA_SDK_HOME]\protocols\ethercat_slave\ecat_appl\esi”
d. Now in the Device Description drop down select “TIESC-001”
e. File->Save as. Select “Save as type” as “binary (*.bin)”. Provide the path and Save.
f. This will generate the binary file for TIESC-001 eeprom. Using “tiimage.exe” to convert this binary to tiimage binary which can be flashed to the board.
tiimage.exe 0x4030F400 NONE tiesc_eeprom.bin tiesc_eeprom_ti.bin

The steps you listed are correct. Note, UART is disabled in the EtherCAT DDR-less demo, so it's expected that no output in UART console. However you should be able to detect the TI-BOX (TIESC-001) using TwinCAT.

Regards,
Garrett

0 Denny%20Yang99373 over 6 years ago in reply to Garrett Ding

TI__Expert 3805 points

Hi Garrett,

Thanks for your reply.

I just burn all bin to flash. But doing power on and reset also it's not working.

I just connect amic110 with JTAG without gel file.

After power on, I connect A8 with CCS and see register like below:

I just set the PC to 0x20000 directly. And click run, it can run well. I can see LED D2 will on.

Or I just do CPU reset(HW) by CCS, and click run. it also work well.

BR,
Denny

0 Garrett Ding over 6 years ago in reply to Denny%20Yang99373

TI__Mastermind 43296 points

Denny,

From the PC register value, the program was running into dead loop/data abort exception default handler in ROM. This is a known issue and caused by recent GCC version upgrade, and has been fixed with the patch in the git repo -
git.ti.com/.../fb449773510e62f06232c80e564577ae2268bfe6

Please apply the patch and rebuild the SBL with the instruction - ap-fpdsp-swapps.dal.design.ti.com/.../Booting_EtherCAT_Application_on_a_DDRLess_AMIC110_System_using_SBL

Regards,
Garrett

0 Denny%20Yang99373 over 6 years ago in reply to Garrett Ding

TI__Expert 3805 points

thanks!
It working now.

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