ST_POWER_SPC58

 

ST_POWER_SPC58 training course for board designers and SW 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

1. Power supply monitors
2. External regulators
3. Internal regulator with external ballast
4. Integrated switch mode voltage regulator (SMPS)

• Reset

1. Reset phases
2. Reset Generation Module
3. Boot Assist Flash
4. System Status and Configuration Module (SSCM), UTEST flash, DCF records

• Clocking

1. Oscillators
2. PLLs
3. Clock Generation Modules
4. Clock monitors

• Power Management Controller digital interface

1. Power Control Unit (MC_PCU)
2. Mode Entry Module (MC_ME)

• Wakeup Unit (WKPU)
• IO pads

1. Hardware configuration
2. 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)

• 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)

• 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.