SPRABA5D January   2014  – January 2019 AM1802 , AM1802 , AM1806 , AM1806 , AM1808 , AM1808 , AM1810 , AM1810

 

  1.   Using the AM18xx Bootloader
    1.     Trademarks
    2. 1  Introduction
    3. 2  Boot Modes
    4. 3  Non-AIS Boot Modes
      1. 3.1 NOR Boot
        1. 3.1.1 Legacy NOR Boot
        2. 3.1.2 Direct NOR Boot
        3. 3.1.3 AIS NOR Boot
      2. 3.2 Host Port Interface (HPI) Boot
      3. 3.3 Emulation Debug Boot
    5. 4  Application Image Script (AIS) Boot
      1. 4.1  Section Load Command (0x58535901)
      2. 4.2  Section Fill Command (0x5853590A)
      3. 4.3  Enable CRC Command (0x58535903)
      4. 4.4  Disable CRC Command (0x58535904)
      5. 4.5  Validate CRC Command (0x58535902)
      6. 4.6  Jump & Close Command (0x58535906)
      7. 4.7  Jump Command (0x58535905)
      8. 4.8  Sequential Read Enable Command (0x58535963)
      9. 4.9  Function Execute Command (0x5853590D)
      10. 4.10 Boot Table Command (0x58535907)
    6. 5  AISgen: Tool to Generate Boot Script (AIS Image)
      1. 5.1 Installation
      2. 5.2 Getting Started
      3. 5.3 Generating AIS
        1. 5.3.1  Boot Mode and Boot Peripheral Setup
        2. 5.3.2  Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) Setup
        3. 5.3.3  Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) Setup
        4. 5.3.4  DDR Setup
        5. 5.3.5  PSC Setup
        6. 5.3.6  Pin Multiplexing Setup
        7. 5.3.7  Application File Selection
        8. 5.3.8  AIS File Selection
        9. 5.3.9  Status and Messages
        10. 5.3.10 Additional AIS Options
          1. 5.3.10.1 CRC
          2. 5.3.10.2 Specifying the Application Entrypoint
        11. 5.3.11 Command Line Usage
    7. 6  Master Boot – Booting From a Slave Memory Device
      1. 6.1 I2C EEPROM Boot
      2. 6.2 SPI EEPROM or Flash Boot
      3. 6.3 NOR Flash Boot
      4. 6.4 NAND Flash Boot
      5. 6.5 MMC/SD Boot
    8. 7  Slave Boot – Booting From an External Master Host
      1. 7.1 About the AIS Interpreter on the Host
      2. 7.2 Start-Word Synchronization (SWS)
      3. 7.3 Ping Op-Code Synchronization (POS)
      4. 7.4 Opcode Synchronization (OS)
    9. 8  UART Boot Host - Using Your PC as a UART Boot Master
      1. 8.1 Getting Started
      2. 8.2 Booting the Device
      3. 8.3 The AIS_Util.cs Source Code
    10. 9  Boot Requirements, Constraints and Default Settings
      1. 9.1 General Comments
      2. 9.2 UART-Boot Modes
      3. 9.3 I2C-Boot Modes
      4. 9.4 SPI-Boot Modes
      5. 9.5 NOR-Boot Modes
      6. 9.6 NAND-Boot Modes
      7. 9.7 MMC/SD-Boot Modes
      8. 9.8 HPI-Boot Modes
    11. 10 References
  2.   A Boot Mode Selection Table
    1.     A.1 Boot Mode Selection Table
  3.   B Details of Supported NAND Devices
    1.     B.1 Details of Supported NAND Devices
  4.   C CRC Computation Algorithm
    1.     C.1 CRC Computation Algorithm
  5.   D Details of Pre-Defined ROM Functions
    1.     D.1 PLL0 Configuration (Index = 0, Argument Count = 2)
    2.     D.2 PLL1 Configuration (Index = 1, Argument Count = 2)
    3.     D.3 Clock Configuration (Index = 2, Argument Count = 1)
      1.      D.3.1 SPI Master Register
      2.      D.3.2 I2C Master Register
      3.      D.3.3 UART Slave Register
      4.      D.3.4 MMC/SD Register
    4.     D.4 mDDR/DDR2 Controller Configuration (Index = 3, Argument Count = 8)
    5.     D.5 EMIFA SDRAM Configuration (Index = 4, Argument Count = 5)
    6.     D.6 EMIFA Async Configuration (Index = 5, Argument Count = 5)
    7.     D.7 PLL and Clock Configuration (Index = 6, Argument Count = 3)
    8.     D.8 Power and Sleep Configuration (PSC) (Index = 7, Argument Count = 1)
    9.     D.9 Pinmux Configuration (Index = 8, Argument Count = 3)
  6.   E ROM Revision History
    1.     E.1 ROMID: D800K002, Silicon Revision 1.0
    2.     E.2 ROMID: D800K004, Silicon Revision 1.1
    3.     E.3 ROMID: D800K006, Silicon Revision 2.0
    4.     E.4 ROMID: D800K008, Silicon Revision 2.1
  7.   Revision History

3.1 NOR Boot

NOR (or parallel Flash) boot happens from a NOR Flash device connected to the external memory interface (EMIFA) peripheral on EMA_CS[2]. For this boot mode, the bootloader configures EMIFA for 8-bit access and reads the first word from the NOR Flash. This first word indicates if the NOR Flash should be accessed in 16-bit or 8-bit mode, as well as which boot method to be used. This word is interpreted as shown in Figure 1

The NOR boot configuration word register is shown in Figure 1 and described in Table 1.

Figure 1. NOR Boot Configuration Word
31 12 11 8
Reserved COPY
7 6 5 4 3 1 0
Reserved METHOD Reserved ACCESS

Table 1. NOR Boot Configuration Word Field Descriptions

Bit Field Value Description
31-12 Reserved 0 Reserved
11-8 COPY Length of data to copy from the base of the NOR Flash to the base of the On-chip RAM. This value is used only for the Legacy NOR boot method.
0x00 1 KB
0x01 2 KB
...
0x0E 15 KB
0x0F 16 KB
7-6 Reserved 0 Reserved
5-4 METHOD Boot method
0x0 Legacy NOR boot
0x1 Direct NOR boot
0x2 AIS NOR boot
3-1 Reserved 0 Reserved
0 ACCESS EMIFA access mode
0x0 8-bit access
0x1 16-bit access

If ACCESS == 0x1, bootloader reconfigures EMIFA for 16-bit access before using specified boot METHOD to boot from NOR. The default configuration of the bootloader is for an 8-bit access.