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Leonardo target documented
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:48:46 +0000
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1 TI's primary development platform for TCS211 firmware was D-Sample - see our
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2 D-Sample article for explanation of our current limited support for that target
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3 in FC Magnetite - but they also had another platform called Leonardo. The
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4 primary difference is the RF section: D-Sample had Clara RF (the one for which
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5 we lack support), whereas Leonardo was TI's reference platform for Rita RF and
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6 for the complete Calypso+Iota+Rita chipset. Another major difference is that
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7 D-Sample was a single stable platform, whereas Leonardo was made in a
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8 bewildering assortment of different variants.
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10 We (FreeCalypso core team) never succeeded in getting our hands on a real
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11 TI-made Leonardo board of any variant, but we do have a Leonardo build target
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12 in FC Magnetite for two reasons:
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14 1) Adding this build target was trivial: our starting hw target for which we
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15 got our original starting-point fw was Openmoko's embedded GSM/GPRS modem,
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16 and that modem is a very close derivative of Leonardo. The only firmware-
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17 affecting diff between Leonardo and OM's modem is FIC/OM's reshuffling of
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18 TSPACT control lines for their triband RFFE; producing a build configuration
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19 with these TSPACT control signals put back into their original Leonardo
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20 arrangement became trivial once our reconstruction of tpudrv12.c from
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21 disassembly of tpudrv12.obj reached production quality.
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23 2) We are currently evaluating a certain third-party (non-TI) development board
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24 which strongly appears to be a very close derivative of Leonardo, even closer
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25 than Openmoko. We are hoping to get one of these boards into Mother
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26 Mychaela's lab some time in 2020-01, at which time we will try running our
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27 Magnetite-Leonardo fw on it.
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29 Supported Leonardo variants
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30 ===========================
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31
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32 RF bands: there were several Leonardo variants with full quadband RF using Epcos
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33 M034F FEM, and there were several more variants with artifically restricted RF,
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34 using a dual-band/single-region FEM and supporting only the two EU bands. The
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35 two versions should be firmware-compatible according to our available schematics
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36 (the same TSPACT signals are used for Tx control), thus our Magnetite-Leonardo
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37 fw should run on any Leonardo variant that matches any of our known schematic
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38 versions at least in the principal aspects.
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40 Flash memory: our Magnetite-Leonardo fw supports the following flash chips for
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41 FFS:
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42
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43 4 MiB: Fujitsu MBM29DL320FB or MBM29DL320FT
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44 8 MiB: Am29DL640G or its Fujitsu equivalent, or any MCP containing this flash
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45 16 MiB: Spansion PL129J or its AMD predecessor, second bank on nCS2
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47 If anyone finds a Leonardo variant with some other flash, it may not be
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48 supported out of the box - but our included FFS configs for the Leonardo target
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49 come directly from TI's original TCS211 version (it is highly unlikely that OM
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50 changed anything other than adding their Samsung flash), thus we support
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51 everything that TI's own TCS211 supported out of the box.
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53 Memory size limits
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54 ==================
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55
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56 The linker script template we use for target leonardo has memory region size
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57 limits set as follows: 8 MiB of flash, 2 MiB of XRAM and 512 KiB of IRAM. If
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58 you are working with a Leonardo or Leonardo-compatible board that has smaller
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59 flash or XRAM, or has a Calypso Lite chip with only 256 KiB of IRAM, then you
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60 have to manually ensure that you stay within your actual memory limits, as you
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61 won't get a failing link unless you exceed the larger linker script limits.
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63 If you are building a modem-only fw configuration (l1reconst or hybrid), it
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64 will fit into under 3 MiB of flash (fitting into a 4 MiB flash chip together
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65 with FFS), 512 KiB of XRAM and 256 KiB of IRAM, so you are safe unless you are
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66 going to add a lot of your own code or data space. But if you are going to
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67 build a UI-enabled fw config (2092 or hybrid-ui), then you will need at least
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68 an 8 MiB flash chip (won't fit into a 4 MiB chip together with FFS) and at least
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69 1 MiB of XRAM. So far all of our configs fit into 256 KiB of IRAM.
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71 Different Calypso chip versions
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72 ===============================
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73
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74 If you specify the build target as just leonardo, your fw will be configured
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75 and built for the leonardo-dsp36 target. If you actually need leonardo-c05b or
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76 leonardo-dsp34 because your board has an older Calypso chip version on it, then
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77 you will need to specify the build target as just stated - see the
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78 Calypso-version-override article.