| Overview |
| -------- |
| The B4860QDS is a Freescale reference board that hosts the B4860 SoC (and variants). |
| |
| B4860 Overview |
| ------------- |
| The B4860 QorIQ Qonverge device is a Freescale high-end, multicore SoC based on |
| StarCore and Power Architecture® cores. It targets the broadband wireless |
| infrastructure and builds upon the proven success of the existing multicore |
| DSPs and Power CPUs. It is designed to bolster the rapidly changing and |
| expanding wireless markets, such as 3GLTE (FDD and TDD), LTE-Advanced, and UMTS. |
| |
| The B4860 is a highly-integrated StarCore and Power Architecture processor that |
| contains: |
| . Six fully-programmable StarCore SC3900 FVP subsystems, divided into three |
| clusters-each core runs up to 1.2 GHz, with an architecture highly optimized for |
| wireless base station applications |
| . Four dual-thread e6500 Power Architecture processors organized in one cluster-each |
| core runs up to 1.8 GHz |
| . Two DDR3/3L controllers for high-speed, industry-standard memory interface each |
| runs at up to 1866.67 MHz |
| . MAPLE-B3 hardware acceleration-for forward error correction schemes including |
| Turbo or Viterbi decoding, Turbo encoding and rate matching, MIMO MMSE |
| equalization scheme, matrix operations, CRC insertion and check, DFT/iDFT and |
| FFT/iFFT calculations, PUSCH/PDSCH acceleration, and UMTS chip rate |
| acceleration |
| . CoreNet fabric that fully supports coherency using MESI protocol between the |
| e6500 cores, SC3900 FVP cores, memories and external interfaces. |
| CoreNet fabric interconnect runs at 667 MHz and supports coherent and |
| non-coherent out of order transactions with prioritization and bandwidth |
| allocation amongst CoreNet endpoints. |
| . Data Path Acceleration Architecture, which includes the following: |
| . Frame Manager (FMan), which supports in-line packet parsing and general |
| classification to enable policing and QoS-based packet distribution |
| . Queue Manager (QMan) and Buffer Manager (BMan), which allow offloading |
| of queue management, task management, load distribution, flow ordering, buffer |
| management, and allocation tasks from the cores |
| . Security engine (SEC 5.3)-crypto-acceleration for protocols such as IPsec, |
| SSL, and 802.16 |
| . RapidIO manager (RMAN) - Support SRIO types 8, 9, 10, and 11 (inbound and |
| outbound). Supports types 5, 6 (outbound only) |
| . Large internal cache memory with snooping and stashing capabilities for |
| bandwidth saving and high utilization of processor elements. The 9856-Kbyte |
| internal memory space includes the following: |
| . 32 Kbyte L1 ICache per e6500/SC3900 core |
| . 32 Kbyte L1 DCache per e6500/SC3900 core |
| . 2048 Kbyte unified L2 cache for each SC3900 FVP cluster |
| . 2048 Kbyte unified L2 cache for the e6500 cluster |
| . Two 512 Kbyte shared L3 CoreNet platform caches (CPC) |
| . Sixteen 10-GHz SerDes lanes serving: |
| . Two Serial RapidIO interfaces. |
| - Each supports up to 4 lanes and a total of up to 8 lanes |
| . Up to 8-lanes Common Public Radio Interface (CPRI) controller for glue-less |
| antenna connection |
| . Two 10-Gbit Ethernet controllers (10GEC) |
| . Six 1G/2.5-Gbit Ethernet controllers for network communications |
| . PCI Express controller |
| . Debug (Aurora) |
| . Two OCeaN DMAs |
| . Various system peripherals |
| . 182 32-bit timers |
| |
| B4860QDS Overview |
| ------------------ |
| - DDRC1: Ten separate DDR3 parts of 16-bit to support 72-bit (ECC) at 1866MT/s, ECC, 4 GB |
| of memory in two ranks of 2 GB. |
| - DDRC2: Five separate DDR3 parts of 16-bit to support 72-bit (ECC) at 1866MT/s, ECC, 2 GB |
| of memory. Single rank. |
| - SerDes 1 multiplexing: Two Vitesse (transmit and receive path) cross-point 16x16 switch |
| VSC3316 |
| - SerDes 2 multiplexing: Two Vitesse (transmit and receive path) cross-point 8x8 switch VSC3308 |
| - USB 2.0 ULPI PHY USB3315 by SMSC supports USB port in host mode. |
| B4860 UART port is available over USB-to-UART translator USB2SER or over RS232 flat cable. |
| - A Vitesse dual SGMII phy VSC8662 links the B4860 SGMII lines to 2xRJ-45 copper connectors |
| for Stand-alone mode and to the 1000Base-X over AMC MicroTCA connector ports 0 and 2 for |
| AMC mode. |
| - The B4860 configuration may be loaded from nine bits coded reset configuration reset source. The |
| RCW source is set by appropriate DIP-switches: |
| - 16-bit NOR Flash / PROMJet |
| - QIXIS 8-bit NOR Flash Emulator |
| - 8-bit NAND Flash |
| - 24-bit SPI Flash |
| - Long address I2C EEPROM |
| - Available debug interfaces are: |
| - On-board eCWTAP controller with ETH and USB I/F |
| - JTAG/COP 16-pin header for any external TAP controller |
| - External JTAG source over AMC to support B2B configuration |
| - 70-pin Aurora debug connector |
| - QIXIS (FPGA) logic: |
| - 2 KB internal memory space including |
| - IDT840NT4 clock synthesizer provides B4860 essential clocks : SYSCLK, DDRCLK1,2 and |
| RTCCLK. |
| - Two 8T49N222A SerDes ref clock devices support two SerDes port clock frequency - total four |
| refclk, including CPRI clock scheme. |
| |
| B4420 Personality |
| -------------------- |
| |
| B4420 Personality |
| -------------------- |
| B4420 is a reduced personality of B4860 with less core/clusters(both SC3900 and e6500), less DDR |
| controllers, less serdes lanes, less SGMII interfaces and reduced target frequencies. |
| |
| Key differences between B4860 and B4420 |
| ---------------------------------------- |
| |
| B4420 has: |
| 1. Less e6500 cores: 1 cluster with 2 e6500 cores |
| 2. Less SC3900 cores/clusters: 1 cluster with 2 SC3900 cores per cluster. |
| 3. Single DDRC |
| 4. 2X 4 lane serdes |
| 5. 3 SGMII interfaces |
| 6. no sRIO |
| 7. no 10G |
| |
| B4860QDS Default Settings |
| ------------------------- |
| |
| Switch Settings |
| ---------------- |
| |
| SW1 OFF [0] OFF [1] OFF [1] OFF [0] OFF [1] OFF [0] OFF [1] OFF [1] |
| SW2 ON ON ON ON ON ON OFF OFF |
| SW3 OFF OFF OFF ON OFF OFF ON OFF |
| SW5 OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON |
| |
| Note: PCIe slots modes: All the PCIe devices work as Root Complex. |
| Note: Boot location: NOR flash. |
| |
| SysClk/Core(e6500)/CCB/DDR/FMan/DDRCLK/StarCore/CPRI-Maple/eTVPE-Maple/ULB-Maple |
| 66MHz/1.6GHz/667MHz/1.6GHz data rate/667MHz/133MHz/1200MHz/500MHz/800MHz/667MHz |
| |
| a) NAND boot |
| SW1 [1.1] = 0 |
| SW2 [1.1] = 1 |
| SW3 [1:4] = 0001 |
| b) NOR boot |
| SW1 [1.1] = 1 |
| SW2 [1.1] = 0 |
| SW3 [1:4] = 1000. |
| |
| B4420QDS Default Settings |
| ------------------------- |
| |
| Switch Settings |
| ---------------- |
| SW1 OFF[0] OFF [0] OFF [0] OFF [0] OFF [0] OFF [0] OFF [0] OFF [0] |
| SW2 ON OFF ON OFF ON ON OFF OFF |
| SW3 OFF OFF OFF ON OFF OFF ON OFF |
| SW5 OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF ON ON |
| |
| Note: PCIe slots modes: All the PCIe devices work as Root Complex. |
| Note: Boot location: NOR flash. |
| |
| SysClk/Core(e6500)/CCB/DDR/FMan/DDRCLK/StarCore/CPRI-Maple/eTVPE-Maple/ULB-Maple |
| 66MHz/1.6GHz/667MHz/1.6GHz data rate/667MHz/133MHz/1200MHz/500MHz/800MHz/667MHz |
| |
| a) NAND boot |
| SW1 [1.1] = 0 |
| SW2 [1.1] = 1 |
| SW3 [1:4] = 0001 |
| b) NOR boot |
| SW1 [1.1] = 1 |
| SW2 [1.1] = 0 |
| SW3 [1:4] = 1000. |
| |
| Memory map on B4860QDS |
| ---------------------- |
| The addresses in brackets are physical addresses. |
| |
| Start Address End Address Description Size |
| 0xF_FFDF_1000 0xF_FFFF_FFFF Free 2 MB |
| 0xF_FFDF_0000 0xF_FFDF_0FFF IFC - FPGA 4 KB |
| 0xF_FF81_0000 0xF_FFDE_FFFF Free 5 MB |
| 0xF_FF80_0000 0xF_FF80_FFFF IFC NAND Flash 64 KB |
| 0xF_FF00_0000 0xF_FF7F_FFFF Free 8 MB |
| 0xF_FE00_0000 0xF_FEFF_FFFF CCSRBAR 16 MB |
| 0xF_F801_0000 0xF_FDFF_FFFF Free 95 MB |
| 0xF_F800_0000 0xF_F800_FFFF PCIe I/O Space 64 KB |
| 0xF_F600_0000 0xF_F7FF_FFFF QMAN s/w portal 32 MB |
| 0xF_F400_0000 0xF_F5FF_FFFF BMAN s/w portal 32 MB |
| 0xF_F000_0000 0xF_F3FF_FFFF Free 64 MB |
| 0xF_E800_0000 0xF_EFFF_FFFF IFC NOR Flash 128 MB |
| 0xF_E000_0000 0xF_E7FF_FFFF Promjet 128 MB |
| 0xF_A0C0_0000 0xF_DFFF_FFFF Free 1012 MB |
| 0xF_A000_0000 0xF_A0BF_FFFF MAPLE0/1/2 12 MB |
| 0xF_0040_0000 0xF_9FFF_FFFF Free 12 GB |
| 0xF_0000_0000 0xF_01FF_FFFF DCSR 32 MB |
| 0xC_4000_0000 0xE_FFFF_FFFF Free 11 GB |
| 0xC_3000_0000 0xC_3FFF_FFFF sRIO-2 I/O 256 MB |
| 0xC_2000_0000 0xC_2FFF_FFFF sRIO-1 I/O 256 MB |
| 0xC_0000_0000 0xC_1FFF_FFFF PCIe Mem Space 512 MB |
| 0x1_0000_0000 0xB_FFFF_FFFF Free 44 GB |
| 0x0_8000_0000 0x0_FFFF_FFFF DDRC1 2 GB |
| 0x0_0000_0000 0x0_7FFF_FFFF DDRC2 2 GB |
| |
| Memory map on B4420QDS |
| ---------------------- |
| The addresses in brackets are physical addresses. |
| |
| Start Address End Address Description Size |
| 0xF_FFDF_1000 0xF_FFFF_FFFF Free 2 MB |
| 0xF_FFDF_0000 0xF_FFDF_0FFF IFC - FPGA 4 KB |
| 0xF_FF81_0000 0xF_FFDE_FFFF Free 5 MB |
| 0xF_FF80_0000 0xF_FF80_FFFF IFC NAND Flash 64 KB |
| 0xF_FF00_0000 0xF_FF7F_FFFF Free 8 MB |
| 0xF_FE00_0000 0xF_FEFF_FFFF CCSRBAR 16 MB |
| 0xF_F801_0000 0xF_FDFF_FFFF Free 95 MB |
| 0xF_F800_0000 0xF_F800_FFFF PCIe I/O Space 64 KB |
| 0xF_F600_0000 0xF_F7FF_FFFF QMAN s/w portal 32 MB |
| 0xF_F400_0000 0xF_F5FF_FFFF BMAN s/w portal 32 MB |
| 0xF_F000_0000 0xF_F3FF_FFFF Free 64 MB |
| 0xF_E800_0000 0xF_EFFF_FFFF IFC NOR Flash 128 MB |
| 0xF_E000_0000 0xF_E7FF_FFFF Promjet 128 MB |
| 0xF_A0C0_0000 0xF_DFFF_FFFF Free 1012 MB |
| 0xF_A000_0000 0xF_A0BF_FFFF MAPLE0/1/2 12 MB |
| 0xF_0040_0000 0xF_9FFF_FFFF Free 12 GB |
| 0xF_0000_0000 0xF_01FF_FFFF DCSR 32 MB |
| 0xC_4000_0000 0xE_FFFF_FFFF Free 11 GB |
| 0xC_3000_0000 0xC_3FFF_FFFF sRIO-2 I/O 256 MB |
| 0xC_2000_0000 0xC_2FFF_FFFF sRIO-1 I/O 256 MB |
| 0xC_0000_0000 0xC_1FFF_FFFF PCIe Mem Space 512 MB |
| 0x1_0000_0000 0xB_FFFF_FFFF Free 44 GB |
| 0x0_0000_0000 0x0_FFFF_FFFF DDRC1 4 GB |
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| |
| NOR Flash memory Map on B4860 and B4420QDS |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Start End Definition Size |
| 0xEFF40000 0xEFFFFFFF u-boot (current bank) 768KB |
| 0xEFF20000 0xEFF3FFFF u-boot env (current bank) 128KB |
| 0xEFF00000 0xEFF1FFFF FMAN Ucode (current bank) 128KB |
| 0xEF300000 0xEFEFFFFF rootfs (alternate bank) 12MB |
| 0xEE800000 0xEE8FFFFF device tree (alternate bank) 1MB |
| 0xEE020000 0xEE6FFFFF Linux.uImage (alternate bank) 6MB+896KB |
| 0xEE000000 0xEE01FFFF RCW (alternate bank) 128KB |
| 0xEDF40000 0xEDFFFFFF u-boot (alternate bank) 768KB |
| 0xEDF20000 0xEDF3FFFF u-boot env (alternate bank) 128KB |
| 0xEDF00000 0xEDF1FFFF FMAN ucode (alternate bank) 128KB |
| 0xED300000 0xEDEFFFFF rootfs (current bank) 12MB |
| 0xEC800000 0xEC8FFFFF device tree (current bank) 1MB |
| 0xEC020000 0xEC6FFFFF Linux.uImage (current bank) 6MB+896KB |
| 0xEC000000 0xEC01FFFF RCW (current bank) 128KB |
| |
| Various Software configurations/environment variables/commands |
| -------------------------------------------------------------- |
| The below commands apply to both B4860QDS and B4420QDS. |
| |
| 1. U-boot environment variable hwconfig |
| The default hwconfig is: |
| hwconfig=fsl_ddr:ctlr_intlv=null,bank_intlv=cs0_cs1;usb1: |
| dr_mode=host,phy_type=ulpi |
| Note: For USB gadget set "dr_mode=peripheral" |
| |
| 2. FMAN Ucode versions |
| fsl_fman_ucode_B4860_106_3_6.bin |
| |
| 3. Switching to alternate bank |
| Commands for switching to alternate bank. |
| |
| 1. To change from vbank0 to vbank2 |
| => qixis_reset altbank (it will boot using vbank2) |
| |
| 2.To change from vbank2 to vbank0 |
| => qixis reset (it will boot using vbank0) |
| |
| 4. To change personality of board |
| For changing personality from B4860 to B4420 |
| 1)Boot from vbank0 |
| 2)Flash vbank2 with b4420 rcw and u-boot |
| 3)Give following commands to uboot prompt |
| => mw.b ffdf0040 0x30; |
| => mw.b ffdf0010 0x00; |
| => mw.b ffdf0062 0x02; |
| => mw.b ffdf0050 0x02; |
| => mw.b ffdf0010 0x30; |
| => reset |
| |
| Note: Power off cycle will lead to default switch settings. |
| Note: 0xffdf0000 is the address of the QIXIS FPGA. |
| |
| 5. Switching between NOR and NAND boot(RCW src changed from NOR <-> NAND) |
| |
| To change from NOR to NAND boot give following command on uboot prompt |
| => mw.b ffdf0040 0x30 |
| => mw.b ffdf0010 0x00 |
| => mw.b 0xffdf0050 0x08 |
| => mw.b 0xffdf0060 0x82 |
| => mw.b ffdf0061 0x00 |
| => mw.b ffdf0010 0x30 |
| => reset |
| |
| To change from NAND to NOR boot give following command on uboot prompt: |
| => mw.b ffdf0040 0x30 |
| => mw.b ffdf0010 0x00 |
| => mw.b 0xffdf0050 0x00(for vbank0) or (mw.b 0xffdf0050 0x02 for vbank2) |
| => mw.b 0xffdf0060 0x12 |
| => mw.b ffdf0061 0x01 |
| => mw.b ffdf0010 0x30 |
| => reset |
| |
| Note: Power off cycle will lead to default switch settings. |
| Note: 0xffdf0000 is the address of the QIXIS FPGA. |
| |
| 6. Ethernet interfaces for B4860QDS |
| Serdes protocosl tested: |
| 0x2a, 0x8d (serdes1, serdes2) [DEFAULT] |
| 0x2a, 0xb2 (serdes1, serdes2) |
| |
| When using [DEFAULT] RCW, which including 2 * 1G SGMII on board and 2 * 1G |
| SGMII on SGMII riser card. |
| Under U-boot these network interfaces are recognized as: |
| FM1@DTSEC3, FM1@DTSEC4, FM1@DTSEC5 and FM1@DTSEC6. |
| |
| On Linux the interfaces are renamed as: |
| . eth2 -> fm1-gb2 |
| . eth3 -> fm1-gb3 |
| . eth4 -> fm1-gb4 |
| . eth5 -> fm1-gb5 |
| |
| 7. RCW and Ethernet interfaces for B4420QDS |
| Serdes protocosl tested: |
| 0x18, 0x9e (serdes1, serdes2) |
| |
| Under U-boot these network interfaces are recognized as: |
| FM1@DTSEC3, FM1@DTSEC4 and e1000#0. |
| |
| On Linux the interfaces are renamed as: |
| . eth2 -> fm1-gb2 |
| . eth3 -> fm1-gb3 |
| |
| NAND boot with 2 Stage boot loader |
| ---------------------------------- |
| PBL initialise the internal SRAM and copy SPL(160KB) in SRAM. |
| SPL further initialise DDR using SPD and environment variables and copy |
| u-boot(768 KB) from flash to DDR. |
| Finally SPL transer control to u-boot for futher booting. |
| |
| SPL has following features: |
| - Executes within 256K |
| - No relocation required |
| |
| Run time view of SPL framework during boot :- |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| Area | Address | |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| Secure boot | 0xFFFC0000 (32KB) | |
| headers | | |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| GD, BD | 0xFFFC8000 (4KB) | |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| ENV | 0xFFFC9000 (8KB) | |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| HEAP | 0xFFFCB000 (30KB) | |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| STACK | 0xFFFD8000 (22KB) | |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| U-boot SPL | 0xFFFD8000 (160KB) | |
| ----------------------------------------------- |
| |
| NAND Flash memory Map on B4860 and B4420QDS |
| ------------------------------------------ |
| Start End Definition Size |
| 0x000000 0x0FFFFF u-boot 1MB |
| 0x140000 0x15FFFF u-boot env 128KB |
| 0x1A0000 0x1BFFFF FMAN Ucode 128KB |
