Sitara processor: Arm Cortex-A8, 10+ Ethernet protocols
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Features
- Up to 300-MHz Sitara™ ARM® Cortex®-A8 32‑Bit RISC Processor
- NEON™ SIMD Coprocessor
- 32KB of L1 Instruction and 32KB of Data Cache With Single-Error Detection (Parity)
- 256KB of L2 Cache With Error Correcting Code (ECC)
- 176KB of On-Chip Boot ROM
- 64KB of Dedicated RAM
- Emulation and Debug - JTAG
- Interrupt Controller (up to 128 Interrupt Requests)
- On-Chip Memory (Shared L3 RAM)
- 64KB of General-Purpose On-Chip Memory Controller (OCMC) RAM
- Accessible to All Masters
- Supports Retention for Fast Wakeup
- External Memory Interfaces (EMIF)
- mDDR(LPDDR), DDR2, DDR3, DDR3L Controller:
- mDDR: 200-MHz Clock (400-MHz Data Rate)
- DDR2: 266-MHz Clock (532-MHz Data Rate)
- DDR3: 400-MHz Clock (800-MHz Data Rate)
- DDR3L: 400-MHz Clock (800-MHz Data Rate)
- 16-Bit Data Bus
- 1GB of Total Addressable Space
- Supports One x16 or Two x8 Memory Device Configurations
- General-Purpose Memory Controller (GPMC)
- Flexible 8-Bit and 16-Bit Asynchronous Memory Interface With up to Seven Chip Selects (NAND, NOR, Muxed-NOR, SRAM)
- Uses BCH Code to Support 4-, 8-, or 16-Bit ECC
- Uses Hamming Code to Support 1-Bit ECC
- Error Locator Module (ELM)
- Used in Conjunction With the GPMC to Locate Addresses of Data Errors from Syndrome Polynomials Generated Using a BCH Algorithm
- Supports 4-, 8-, and 16-Bit per 512-Byte Block Error Location Based on BCH Algorithms
- mDDR(LPDDR), DDR2, DDR3, DDR3L Controller:
- Programmable Real-Time Unit Subsystem and Industrial Communication Subsystem (PRU-ICSS)
- Supports Protocols such as EtherCAT®, PROFIBUS, PROFINET, EtherNet/IP™, and More
- Two Programmable Real-Time Units (PRUs)
- 32-Bit Load/Store RISC Processor Capable of Running at 200 MHz
- 8KB of Instruction RAM With Single-Error Detection (Parity)
- 8KB of Data RAM With Single-Error Detection (Parity)
- Single-Cycle 32-Bit Multiplier With 64-Bit Accumulator
- Enhanced GPIO Module Provides Shift-In/Out Support and Parallel Latch on External Signal
- 12KB of Shared RAM With Single-Error Detection (Parity)
- Three 120-Byte Register Banks Accessible by Each PRU
- Interrupt Controller (INTC) for Handling System Input Events
- Local Interconnect Bus for Connecting Internal and External Masters to the Resources Inside the PRU-ICSS
- Peripherals Inside the PRU-ICSS:
- One UART Port With Flow Control Pins, Supports up to 12 Mbps
- One Enhanced Capture (eCAP) Module
- Two MII Ethernet Ports that Support Industrial Ethernet, such as EtherCAT
- One MDIO Port
- Power, Reset, and Clock Management (PRCM) Module
- Controls the Entry and Exit of Stand-By and Deep-Sleep Modes
- Responsible for Sleep Sequencing, Power Domain Switch-Off Sequencing, Wake-Up Sequencing, and Power Domain Switch-On Sequencing
- Clocks
- Integrated 15- to 35-MHz High-Frequency Oscillator Used to Generate a Reference Clock for Various System and Peripheral Clocks
- Supports Individual Clock Enable and Disable Control for Subsystems and Peripherals to Facilitate Reduced Power Consumption
- Five ADPLLs to Generate System Clocks (MPU Subsystem, DDR Interface, USB and Peripherals [MMC and SD, UART, SPI, I2C], L3, L4, Ethernet, GFX [SGX530], LCD Pixel Clock (1))
- Power
- Two Nonswitchable Power Domains (Real-Time Clock [RTC], Wake-Up Logic [WAKEUP])
- Three Switchable Power Domains (MPU Subsystem [MPU], SGX530 [GFX](1), Peripherals and Infrastructure [PER])
- Implements SmartReflex™ Class 2B for Core Voltage Scaling Based On Die Temperature, Process Variation, and Performance (Adaptive Voltage Scaling [AVS])
- Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS)
- Real-Time Clock (RTC)
- Real-Time Date (Day-Month-Year-Day of Week) and Time (Hours-Minutes-Seconds) Information
- Internal 32.768-kHz Oscillator, RTC Logic and 1.1-V Internal LDO
- Independent Power-on-Reset (RTC_PWRONRSTn) Input
- Dedicated Input Pin (EXT_WAKEUP) for External Wake Events
- Programmable Alarm Can be Used to Generate Internal Interrupts to the PRCM (for Wakeup) or Cortex-A8 (for Event Notification)
- Programmable Alarm Can be Used With External Output (PMIC_POWER_EN) to Enable the Power Management IC to Restore Non-RTC Power Domains
- Peripherals
- Up to Two USB 2.0 High-Speed DRD (Dual-Role Device) Ports With Integrated PHY
- Up to Two Industrial Gigabit Ethernet MACs (10, 100, 1000 Mbps)
- Integrated Switch
- Each MAC Supports MII, RMII, RGMII, and MDIO Interfaces
- Ethernet MACs and Switch Can Operate Independent of Other Functions
- IEEE 1588v1 Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
- Up to Two Controller-Area Network (CAN) Ports
- Supports CAN Version 2 Parts A and B
- Up to Two Multichannel Audio Serial Ports (McASPs)
- Transmit and Receive Clocks up to 50 MHz
- Up to Four Serial Data Pins per McASP Port With Independent TX and RX Clocks
- Supports Time Division Multiplexing (TDM), Inter-IC Sound (I2S), and Similar Formats
- Supports Digital Audio Interface Transmission (SPDIF, IEC60958-1, and AES-3 Formats)
- FIFO Buffers for Transmit and Receive (256 Bytes)
- Up to Six UARTs
- All UARTs Support IrDA and CIR Modes
- All UARTs Support RTS and CTS Flow Control
- UART1 Supports Full Modem Control
- Up to Two Master and Slave McSPI Serial Interfaces
- Up to Two Chip Selects
- Up to 48 MHz
- Up to Three MMC, SD, SDIO Ports
- 1-, 4- and 8-Bit MMC, SD, SDIO Modes
- MMCSD0 has Dedicated Power Rail for 1.8‑V or 3.3-V Operation
- Up to 48-MHz Data Transfer Rate
- Supports Card Detect and Write Protect
- Complies With MMC4.3, SD, SDIO 2.0 Specifications
- Up to Three I2C Master and Slave Interfaces
- Standard Mode (up to 100 kHz)
- Fast Mode (up to 400 kHz)
- Up to Four Banks of General-Purpose I/O (GPIO) Pins
- 32 GPIO Pins per Bank (Multiplexed With Other Functional Pins)
- GPIO Pins Can be Used as Interrupt Inputs (up to Two Interrupt Inputs per Bank)
- Up to Three External DMA Event Inputs that can Also be Used as Interrupt Inputs
- Eight 32-Bit General-Purpose Timers
- DMTIMER1 is a 1-ms Timer Used for Operating System (OS) Ticks
- DMTIMER4–DMTIMER7 are Pinned Out
- One Watchdog Timer
- 12-Bit Successive Approximation Register (SAR) ADC
- 200K Samples per Second
- Input can be Selected from any of the Eight Analog Inputs Multiplexed Through an 8:1 Analog Switch
- Up to Three Enhanced High-Resolution PWM Modules (eHRPWMs)
- Dedicated 16-Bit Time-Base Counter With Time and Frequency Controls
- Configurable as Six Single-Ended, Six Dual-Edge Symmetric, or Three Dual-Edge Asymmetric Outputs
- Device Identification
- Contains Electrical Fuse Farm (FuseFarm) of Which Some Bits are Factory Programmable
- Production ID
- Device Part Number (Unique JTAG ID)
- Device Revision (Readable by Host ARM)
- Contains Electrical Fuse Farm (FuseFarm) of Which Some Bits are Factory Programmable
- Debug Interface Support
- JTAG and cJTAG for ARM (Cortex-A8 and PRCM), PRU-ICSS Debug
- Supports Device Boundary Scan
- Supports IEEE 1500
- DMA
- On-Chip Enhanced DMA Controller (EDMA) has Three Third-Party Transfer Controllers (TPTCs) and One Third-Party Channel Controller (TPCC), Which Supports up to 64 Programmable Logical Channels and Eight QDMA Channels. EDMA is Used for:
- Transfers to and from On-Chip Memories
- Transfers to and from External Storage (EMIF, GPMC, Slave Peripherals)
- On-Chip Enhanced DMA Controller (EDMA) has Three Third-Party Transfer Controllers (TPTCs) and One Third-Party Channel Controller (TPCC), Which Supports up to 64 Programmable Logical Channels and Eight QDMA Channels. EDMA is Used for:
- Inter-Processor Communication (IPC)
- Integrates Hardware-Based Mailbox for IPC and Spinlock for Process Synchronization Between Cortex-A8, PRCM, and PRU-ICSS
- Mailbox Registers that Generate Interrupts
- Four Initiators (Cortex-A8, PRCM, PRU0, PRU1)
- Spinlock has 128 Software-Assigned Lock Registers
- Mailbox Registers that Generate Interrupts
- Integrates Hardware-Based Mailbox for IPC and Spinlock for Process Synchronization Between Cortex-A8, PRCM, and PRU-ICSS
- Boot Modes
- Boot Mode is Selected Through Boot Configuration Pins Latched on the Rising Edge of the PWRONRSTn Reset Input Pin
- Package:
- 324-Pin S-PBGA-N324 Package
(ZCZ Suffix), 0.80-mm Ball Pitch
- 324-Pin S-PBGA-N324 Package
(1)The GFX [SGX530] and LCD modules are not supported for this family of devices, but the "LCD" and "GFX" names are still present in some PLL, power domain, or supply voltage names.
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Description
The AMIC110 device is a multiprotocol programmable industrial communications processor providing ready-to-use solutions for most industrial Ethernet and fieldbus communications slaves, as well as some masters. The device is based on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor, peripherals, and industrial interface options. The devices support high-level operating systems (HLOS). Processor SDK Linux® and TI-RTOS are available free of charge from TI. Other RTOS are also offered by TI ecosystem partners. The AMIC110 microprocessor is an ideal companion communications chip to the C2000 family of microcontrollers for connected drives.
The AMIC110 microprocessor contains the subsystems shown in Figure 1-1 and a brief description of each follows:
The microprocessor unit (MPU) subsystem is based on the ARM Cortex-A8 processor. The PRU-ICSS is separate from the ARM core, allowing independent operation and clocking for greater efficiency and flexibility. The PRU-ICSS enables additional peripheral interfaces and real-time protocols such as EtherCAT, PROFINET IRT, EtherNet/IP, PROFIBUS, Ethernet Powerlink, Sercos III, and others. Additionally, the programmable nature of the PRU-ICSS, along with its access to pins, events and all system-on-chip (SoC) resources, provides flexibility in implementing fast, real-time responses, specialized data handling operations, custom peripheral interfaces, and in offloading tasks from the other processor cores of SoC.
Technical documentation
Design & development
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Description
The AMIC110 Industrial Communications Engine (ICE) is a development platform targeted at industrial communications and industrial ethernet in particular. Key to the AMIC110 ICE is the Sitara AMIC110 SoC that features Arm® Cortex™-A8 processor along with the Programmable-Realtime Unit (...)
Features
- AMIC110 SoC featuring Sitara™ Arm® Cortex®-A8 and PRU-ICSS
- 512 MByte of DDR3 and 8 MByte of SPI flash
- 2x 10/100 industrial ethernet connectors with external magnetics
- 20-pin JTAG header to support all types of external emulator
- RoHS and REACH compliant design
- EMC-compliant, industrial temp dual port (...)
Description
The Spectrum Digital XDS200 is the first model of the XDS200 family of debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. The XDS200 family features a balance of low cost with good performance between the super low cost XDS110 and the high performance XDS560v2, while supporting a wide variety of standards (...)
Features
The XDS200 is the mid-range family of JTAG debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. Designed to deliver good performance and the most common features that place it between the low cost XDS110 and the high performance XDS560v2, the XDS200 is the balanced solution to debug TI microcontrollers (...)
Description
The XDS560v2 System Trace is the first model of the XDS560v2 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. The XDS560v2 is the highest performance of the XDS family of debug probes and supports both the traditional JTAG standard (IEEE1149.1) and cJTAG (IEEE1149.7).
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Features
XDS560v2 is the latest variant of the XDS560 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. With the fastest speeds and most features of the entire XDS family, XDS560v2 is the most comprehensive solution to debug TI microcontrollers, processors and wireless connectivity (...)
Description
The XDS560v2 System Trace is the first model of the XDS560v2 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. The XDS560v2 is the highest performance of the XDS family of debug probes and supports both the traditional JTAG standard (IEEE1149.1) and cJTAG (IEEE1149.7).
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Features
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XDS560v2 is the latest variant of the XDS560 family of high-performance debug probes (emulators) for TI processors. With the fastest speeds and most features of the entire XDS family, XDS560v2 is the most comprehensive solution to debug TI microcontrollers, processors and wireless connectivity (...)
Software development
Features
RTOS features
- Full driver availability
- File system
- Bare metal secondary bootloader
- Board support package
- Demonstrations and examples
- Host tools including Pin Mux and Clock Tree utilities
- Code Composer Studio™ IDE for RTOS development
- Documentation
The Processor SDK is free, and does not require any run-time (...)
Features
- PRU-ICSS firmware binary images and driver sources
- Third-party stacks and evaluation libraries
- Scripts to generate CCS projects
- Example application for evaluation
- Documentation (release notes, protocol data sheets, user guides, porting guides, etc.)
Refer to the protocol datasheets and release notes of (...)
Code Composer Studio is an integrated development environment (IDE) that supports TI's Microcontroller and Embedded Processors portfolio. Code Composer Studio comprises a suite of tools used to develop and debug embedded applications. It includes an optimizing C/C++ compiler, source code editor (...)
Features
- Full, pre-certified solutions based on Sitara™ processors
- Years of industrial communciations expertise
- Toolkits for master and slave development available
CCS Uniflash is a standalone tool used to (...)
Design tools & simulation
- Visualize the device clock tree
- Interact with clock tree elements (...)
Features
Power Estimation Tool (PET) provides users the ability to gain insight in to the power consumption of select TI processors. The tool includes the ability for the user to choose multiple application scenarios and understand the power consumption as well as how advanced power saving techniques can be (...)
Reference designs
Design files
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download EtherCAT Slave and Multi-Protocol Industrial Ethernet Assembly Drawing (Rev. A).pdf (894KB) -
download EtherCAT Slave and Multi-Protocol Industrial Ethernet BOM (Rev. A).pdf (79KB) -
download EtherCAT Slave and Multi-Protocol Industrial Ethernet CAD Files (Rev. A).zip (3037KB) -
download EtherCAT Slave and Multi-Protocol Industrial Ethernet Gerber (Rev. A).zip (6730KB) -
download EtherCAT Slave and Multi-Protocol Industrial Ethernet PCB (Rev. A).pdf (6631KB)
Design files
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download PRU Real-Time I/O Evaluation Reference Design Bill of Materials (BOM).zip (24KB) -
download PRU Real-Time I/O Evaluation Reference Design PCB Layouts.zip (1620KB) -
download PRU Real-Time I/O Evaluation Reference Design Assembly Drawings.zip (153KB) -
download PRU Real-Time I/O Evaluation Reference Design CAD Files.zip (79KB)
Design files
CAD/CAE symbols
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