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1 This document describes the quirks of Calypso JTAG in an abstract, tool-
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2 independent sense, and also covers the little bit of experience we've had with
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3 TI's original official tools, but does not delve into OpenOCD specifics.
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4 For OpenOCD-on-Calypso custom config and instructions, please refer to the
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5 freecalyps-hwlab repository - but the present document should still be read
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6 first.
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8 Unconventional reset structure
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9 ==============================
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11 The first major way in which the JTAG interface on Calypso development boards
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12 (or more generally, what is available in the Calypso+Iota chipset) differs from
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13 "canonical" JTAG is that this chipset does NOT have reset signals that are
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14 anything like classic TRST or SRST. Instead there is only one bundled-with-JTAG
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15 reset signal (we call it XDS_RESET) which is turned into Iota nTESTRESET through
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16 a transistor circuit - please refer to the Calypso-test-reset article. Aside
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17 from its effects on the VRPC state machine described in that article, this test
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18 reset can be thought of as a simultaneous combination of an equivalent of TRST
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19 (all JTAG logic is hard-reset), an equivalent of SRST (the Calypso is fully
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20 reset and proceeds with a cold boot) and more (all hardware is reset at a very
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21 deep level), but comparisons to classic TRST and SRST aren't really appropriate
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22 as the latter signals simply don't exist in our chipset.
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24 However, despite its highly unconventional nature, this XDS_RESET signal
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25 provided along with JTAG on TI's development boards performs a very important
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26 function: this combination of JTAG and test reset allows a "reset and hold
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27 still" maneuvre where all hardware is put into its pristine state with a very
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28 deep reset, but the ARM7 CPU is halted before it gets a chance to execute any
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29 instructions from the reset vector. This ability is not particularly important
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30 on current Calypso hardware with a working and enabled boot ROM, but it was
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31 vital on earlier platforms without this boot ROM: if the flash is blank or
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32 contains a bad code image, or if RAM is mapped onto the boot chip select
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33 instead of flash, allowing the ARM7 core to execute garbage out of reset is
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34 bad, whereas having a "reset and hold still" ability allows guaranteed reliable
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35 recovery and bootstrapping from a blank or bricked state. As explained later
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36 in this article, this "reset and hold still" maneuvre is executed by first
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37 giving the target a test reset pulse (which unstoppably blows away all prior hw
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38 state), then immediately (the timing is critical) performing certain
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39 manipulations via the JTAG scan chain - thus the bundling of the XDS_RESET
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40 signal with JTAG is important.
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41
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42 EMU0 and EMU1 signals
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43 =====================
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45 In addition to the 4 standard JTAG signals TCK, TDI, TDO and TMS, the Calypso
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46 provides two TI-proprietary signals called EMU0 and EMU1. (The test reset goes
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47 to the Iota ABB, not to the Calypso.) These EMU0 and EMU1 signals are brought
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48 out to the 14-pin JTAG connector on TI's D-Sample and E-Sample boards, and also
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49 on our FCDEV3B.
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50
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51 The function of these two signals is completely unknown: all we know is that
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52 they are listed as "bidirectional in/out" in the cal000.pdf document, and that
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53 same-named signals also exist on TI's general-purpose DSP chips, both C54x and
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54 the newer families, where they are also very poorly documented. We don't know
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55 what these EMU0/1 signals do on the Calypso, and it is a particular unknown
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56 whether they are specific to the DSP part or if the ARM7 part can also make use
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57 of them somehow.
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58
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59 I (Mother Mychaela) previously thought that these signals might facilitate a
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60 way to halt the ARM7 core without going through the scan chain, or a different
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61 way to halt directly out of reset than the one we ultimately found, but a
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62 recent experiment has shown that pulling either or both of these signals low
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63 (they are pulled up on target boards) has absolutely no visible effect on ARM7
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64 code execution, whether they are pulled low coming out of test reset or while
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65 running. Thus until we recover more understanding of what is going on inside
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66 the chip, we are going to ignore these two signals and leave them unconnected.
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67
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68 Iota not included in the JTAG scan chain
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69 ========================================
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70
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71 In addition to the Calypso chip itself (the DBB), the Iota ABB chip also has
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72 JTAG pins and could potentially be included in the scan chain. However, this
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73 wiring arrangement is not typically used: both on TI's D-Sample board and on
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74 our own FCDEV3B (based on Leonardo schematics) the JTAG interface is wired only
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75 to the Calypso and not to Iota. The same arrangement has also been found in
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76 all historical commercial phones and modems that provide a JTAG interface.
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77
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78 We don't have any plans to change this arrangement in any of our future designs:
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79 in the absence of 100% complete understanding of the internals of both chips,
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80 there is no telling what unexpected gotcha may occur if the Iota chip is
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81 included in the same scan chain as the Calypso, hence we are not doing that.
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82
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83 ARM7 and C54x DSP cores
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84 =======================
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85
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86 The regular JTAG scan chain inside the Calypso goes through two TAPs
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87 corresponding to the two processor cores. The ARM7 TAP with a 4-bit IR is
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88 closer to TDI, and the C54x DSP TAP with an 8-bit IR is closer to TDO. The
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89 debug interface to the ARM7 core through its respective TAP is consistent with
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90 public ARM7TDMI documentation from ARM except for one important quirk described
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91 below, but we know absolutely nothing about the DSP TAP and its debug protocol
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92 other than how to put it into BYPASS so we can operate on the ARM.
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93
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94 It appears from passing references in some TI documents that they did intend to
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95 have an ability to debug the Calypso DSP via JTAG "emulation", and TI's CCS
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96 software working through TI's XDS510 or XDS560 hardware (the same setup that
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97 successfully connects to the ARM7 part of the Calypso) supports C54x targets.
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98 However, we have no idea how any potential JTAG access to the DSP would interact
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99 with its reset control coming from the ARM or with its power saving modes, and
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100 it is very likely that there are some security mechanisms restricting debug
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101 access to the DSP (perhaps needing some secret key to unlock it), thus being
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102 able to debug the DSP via JTAG is not something we can realistically hope for
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103 unless we either buy out the complete chip design from TI or physically
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104 reverse-engineer the chip transistor by transistor, both options being equally
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105 cost-prohibitive. At our current level of budgetary means, our ability to use
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106 the JTAG interface on the Calypso is limited to the ARM7 part, not the DSP.
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107
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108 Non-standard extension to the ARM7TDMI TAP
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109 ==========================================
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110
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111 We know that TI made at least one non-standard extension to the ARM7TDMI TAP in
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112 the Calypso because it implements at least one additional opcode that does not
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113 appear in any public documentation from ARM. When connecting to this ARM7
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114 target, TI's CCS software working through XDS510 or XDS560 hardware apparently
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115 scans a 0xB opcode (4'b1011) through the IR, and then apparently scans 2'b10
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116 through the 2-bit DR selected by this opcode. (I said "apparently" because so
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117 far the only people who have actually sniffed the JTAG communications produced
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118 by the XDS+CCS combo were OsmocomBB people, not anyone from the FreeCalypso
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119 team, hence we don't have any authentic knowledge currently.) Experiments with
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120 OpenOCD show that the just-described sequence of IR and DR scans with an
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121 unknown instruction and an unknown data register is necessary in order to allow
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122 halting the ARM7 core: if we try to halt it in the standard ARM7TDMI way (either
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123 via DBGRQ or via a catch-all breakpoint unit setup) without doing the magic
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125
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126 Fortunately though, after we issue the non-understood magic sequence once, all
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127 subsequent ARM7TDMI halt/resume manipulations done in the standard way appear
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128 to work just fine, no more quirks. The only time when the "halt unlock" magic
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129 sequence needs to be repeated is after a reset, which is expected.
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130
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131 Interaction with the watchdog timer
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132 ===================================
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133
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134 The Calypso chip includes a watchdog timer feature; if this watchdog timer is
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135 enabled and allowed to expire, it effects a fairly deep reset of the chip. The
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136 Calypso boot ROM code and most firmware designs do a step early on to disable
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137 this watchdog, and it is not subsequently re-enabled except to effect a reboot
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138 when so desired, but as the ARM7 core first comes out of reset and starts
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139 executing instructions from the reset vector (whether ROM or external memory),
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140 the watchdog timer is enabled and ticking. This watchdog timer interacts with
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141 JTAG as follows:
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142
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143 1) When the ARM7 core is halted via JTAG, the watchdog timer (if enabled) is
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144 NOT stopped or paused, but keeps ticking.
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145
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146 2) If a watchdog reset occurs while the ARM7 core is halted, everything goes
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147 out of whack, consistent with the note in standard ARM7TDMI documentation
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148 which says that a reset must not be applied to the core while it is in debug
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149 halt state.
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150
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151 Therefore, if the ARM7 core is to be halted at a time when the watchdog timer
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152 is enabled and ticking, the halt operation must be quickly followed by two
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153 system bus write operations (mwh command in OpenOCD) to the WATCHDOG_TIM_MODE
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154 register, executing the watchdog disable sequence before the timer is allowed
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155 to expire while halted.
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156
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157 JTAG clock speed
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158 ================
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159
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160 It is often stated that the JTAG clock speed must be no greater than 1/6 of the
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161 system clock speed when talking to ARM cores, and that JTAG access is blocked
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162 when the core goes into a power saving mode with the clock stopped. Neither of
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163 these constraints applies to our beloved Calypso though: the stated issues occur
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164 in chip designs which internally synchronize JTAG signals including TCK to their
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165 system clock, but Calypso and its predecessors don't do that, they use the hard
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166 macrocell version of the ARM7TDMI core instead, use TCK directly to clock JTAG-
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167 specific logic and perform "hard" clock switching for debug mode.
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168
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169 According to the available cal000_a.pdf document, the maximum TCK frequency
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170 supported by the Calypso is 10 MHz, which also appears to be the only TCK
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171 frequency which TI's older XDS510 "emulator" pods can produce without hardware
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172 modifications. This 10 MHz TCK frequency can be used no matter what frequency
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173 is fed to Calypso's main CLKTCXO clock input or what frequency the ARM7 core is
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174 configured to run at, and JTAG keeps working even when the main clock is
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175 completely stopped.
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176
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177 It is possible to halt the Calypso ARM7 core when it is in a sleep mode, even
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178 in deep sleep: manipulation of internal scan chain 2 to set DBGRQ is a JTAG-only
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179 operation, contained entirely in the TCK clock domain, thus it works even with
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180 the main VCXO stopped, and the actual halt occurs on wakeup when the ARM7 core
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181 regains its regular clock and sees the internal DBGRQ signal asserted.
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182
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183 Halting immediately out of reset
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184 ================================
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185
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186 To me (Mother Mychaela) it always seemed evident that the Calypso and its
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187 predecessors had to have some way to perform a "reset and hold still" maneuvre,
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188 as this capability was absolutely essential for deterministic bootstrapping and
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189 recovery of boards before the Calypso boot ROM subsumed that function. However,
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190 the exact manipulations required to achieve this effect have remained elusive
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191 for a long time until I found the answer in May-June of 2019. The trick is NOT
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192 done through EMU0/1 pins like I once thought, and the method used on many other
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193 chips involving classic TRST and SRST signals is clearly not applicable to the
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194 Calypso given its very different reset structure.
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195
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196 The answer lies in the clocking architecture of TI GSM chipsets, involving a
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197 VCXO that is started and stopped and a 32.768 kHz clock which is always running.
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198 When the Calypso starts its boot process in response to the ON_nOFF signal
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199 going from low to high (in the XDS-triggered test reset scenario this event
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200 immediately follows the release of external reset), the main VCXO is off (i.e.,
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201 it hasn't been started yet) and only the 32.768 kHz clock is running. At this
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202 point the ARM7 core receives no clock at all (the 32.768 kHz clock is never fed
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203 to the ARM7), and the ULPD block (the same block that handles deep sleep) goes
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204 through the sequence of first enabling the main VCXO, then waiting for it to
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205 stabilize. This sequence takes about 8192 cycles of the slow clock (about
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206 250 ms), and only at the completion of this sequence the ARM7 core gets its
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207 first clock. But during that 250 ms time window the JTAG logic is out of its
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208 reset and functioning, and it can be operated because Calypso JTAG does not
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209 depend on the main ARM clock which is stopped.
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210
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211 The following sequence of steps successfully achieves the effect of resetting
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212 the Calypso+Iota chipset and all board-level peripherals that are subservient
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213 to it, and halting the Calypso directly at the reset vector before the first
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214 instruction is executed:
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215
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216 1) Give the chipset a test reset pulse via the XDS_RESET line; the exact
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217 required duration is not known, but my OpenOCD-based proof of concept gives
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218 a 50 ms pulse.
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219
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220 2) Immediately after releasing the reset or after a short delay (my PoC does a
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221 10 ms delay), start exercising the JTAG scan chain, which has been fully
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222 reset - it will be responsive at this point.
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223
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224 3) Perform the "magic" IR and DR scans to enable halting ability, just like we
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225 do when we wish to halt an already-running Calypso.
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226
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227 4) Going through scan chain 2 inside the ARM7TDMI TAP, set the DBGRQ bit.
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228 All steps up to this one must happen before Calypso ULPD enables the
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229 VCXO-derived clock to the ARM7.
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230
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231 5) Also going through scan chain 2, poll and wait for DBGACK to get set,
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232 indicating that the ARM7TDMI core halted - this event will happen when the
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233 core gets its first clocks.
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234
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235 6) Once the ARM7TDMI core is halted, perform the two mwh operations to the
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236 0xFFFFF804 register (WATCHDOG_TIM_MODE) to disable the watchdog, otherwise
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237 it will generate another internal reset and mess up the system state.
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238
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239 We never found any built-in provision in TI's CCS (see below) or any script for
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240 CCS that does the above, instead I (Mother Mychaela) found it on my own by
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241 thinking about how it could possibly be done, and proved the idea working
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242 with an OpenOCD setup presented in the freecalypso-hwlab repository.
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243
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244 Original official TI tools
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245 ==========================
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246
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247 TI's original and official tool for operating on Calypso JTAG was their Code
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248 Composer Studio (CCS) software, working through TI's XDS510 and XDS560
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249 "emulator" hardware. The original hardware solution was the XDS510, and I mean
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250 the original XDS510 which was an ISA card made by TI themselves, not any of the
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251 later "XDS510-class" "emulators" made by companies acting as TI's 3rd-party
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252 partners. The next successor to this original XDS510 was the original XDS560,
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253 also made by TI themselves and distinct from the later "XDS560-class" devices
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254 by TI's 3rd-party partner companies. The original XDS560 is a PCI card rather
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255 than ISA, thus a little easier to get working in 2019, and also more readily
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256 available on ebay. Both XDS510 and XDS560 consist of a desktop PC card (ISA or
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257 PCI) and an active pod, and the pod has a non-detachable target connection cable
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258 coming out of it, terminating in a female connector mating with the TI-style
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259 14-pin JTAG header. The pod connector fits perfectly to TI's original D-Sample
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260 board, but on our FCDEV3B it fails to fit because the JTAG and dual UART headers
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261 are too close together. Therefore, anyone who is interested in connecting TI's
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262 original XDS510 or XDS560 to an FCDEV3B would need to get some male-to-female
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263 jumper wires or make a custom-crimped interposer cable.
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264
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265 The version of CCS which we found to work with these "emulator" adapters (both
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266 XDS510 and XDS560) and with Calypso targets is this one:
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267
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268 ftp://ftp.freecalypso.org/pub/GSM/TI_tools/CCS/CCS_3.3.83.20_win32.zip
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269
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270 In order to get this CCS to work with a Calypso target, you will need to create
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271 a "custom board" configuration in CCS setup - none of the predefined board
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272 configs shipped with CCS will work. To create the needed "custom board" config,
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273 select your "emulator" (XDS510 or XDS560), then add an ARM7 target and a
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274 TMS320C5400 target in this order, which is the order from TDI to TDO. With this
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275 custom config saved, running CCS brings up what they call the Parallel Debug
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276 Manager, which supposedly supports coordinated debugging of both ARM and DSP
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277 cores. However, I (Mother Mychaela) have not tried connecting to the DSP part,
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278 only ARM7; another FreeCalypso community member who also got a working XDS510
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279 setup talking to an FCDEV3B did try it, but saw what appears to be garbage. As
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280 discussed earlier in this article, we are completely in the blind here, hence
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281 this direction is not being seriously explored at the present.
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282
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283 In order to play with just the ARM7 core, leaving the DSP alone, select the
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284 ARM7 target in the Open menu in Parallel Debug Manager - the main CCS debug
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285 window will then open, and it will be specific to the ARM7 target. In my own
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286 testing all further operations were done from the latter window and its menus.
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287
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288 Reset with TI's tools
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289 ---------------------
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290
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291 Both XDS510 and XDS560 "emulators" have only one reset output; on TI's general-
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292 purpose DSP development boards outside of the GSM Skunkworks division this one
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293 reset line was TRST, whereas on D-Sample and Leonardo boards (and on our
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294 FCDEV3B) this signal is repurposed to drive Iota nTESTRESET through a clever
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295 transistor circuit. TI's general-purpose (non-GSM) DSP chips and boards have
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296 internal pull-downs on TRST rather than pull-ups (JTAG logic permanently held
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297 down in reset when no "emulator" is connected), hence both XDS510 and XDS560
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298 pods drive this signal with an active push-pull driver - which is why Calypso
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299 development boards include the special transistor circuit rather than connect
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300 the XDS_RESET line (as we call it) directly to internal nTESTRESET.
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301
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302 Prior to initialization, a "cold" XDS560 pod has its reset output held low,
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303 thus the target board will be held down in test reset and will appear completely
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304 unresponsive. To initialize the XDS560 and release it from reset, select
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305 "Emulator Reset" from the Debug menu. For this operation to succeed, the LDO
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306 regulators in the Iota ABB need to be turned on, putting out 2.8 V on the V-IO
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307 rail which is used as the target voltage reference by the XDS560 pod, so you
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308 will probably need to press either the PWON button or the RESET button on the
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309 FCDEV3B initially - and if the green LED stays off after that button press, you
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310 know that the board is being held down in test reset by the XDS560 pod. Then
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311 do the "Emulator Reset" operation, at which point the green LED will turn on
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312 and the board will boot normally. From this point onward, doing a repeated
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313 "Emulator Reset" operation causes a low-then-high pulse to be put out on the
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314 XDS_RESET line, resetting the board and once again causing it to go through a
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315 fresh boot.
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316
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317 Connecting to the ARM7 core and halting it
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318 ------------------------------------------
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319
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320 Once the XDS560 has been initialized and the target board has been lifted out
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321 of test reset with the "Emulator Reset" operation, you can execute the
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322 "Connect target" operation, also in the Debug menu. This operation produces a
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323 successful halt (I can only guess that this step is the point at which the
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324 mysterious 0xB JTAG instruction and the unknown 2-bit register scan are issued,
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325 unlocking the halting ability on this modified ARM7TDMI core), but the halt
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326 happens at whichever point the ARM7 core happens to be in its code execution,
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327 i.e., the generic, non-GSM-specific CCS has no knowledge of the peculiar timing
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328 sequence that is required to achieve a halt directly out of reset on the
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329 Calypso. It is my (Mychaela's) guess that CCS probably has some scripting
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330 ability for more advanced users, and that TI's GSM Skunkworks division used
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331 this custom scripting mechanism to do a sequence of {Emulator reset, then
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332 connect to target and halt, then execute two register writes to disable the
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333 watchdog} with machine rather human timing between the steps. Machine rather
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334 than human timing is required in order to hit the 250 ms window between the
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335 release of reset and the beginning of ARM core execution, and also to disable
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336 the watchdog after the halt via two register writes before it goes off.
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337
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338 Using OpenOCD on Calypso targets
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339 ================================
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340
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341 Building on top of the work that was done almost a decade earlier by some people
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342 in the OsmocomBB camp (they sniffed the magic "halt unlock" sequence from an
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343 XDS+CCS setup and gained the ability to halt an already-running Calypso with
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344 OpenOCD, albeit without the reset magic) and adding the more in-depth
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345 understanding provided by Mother Mychaela, we now have the ability to use
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346 OpenOCD with a simple FT2232D adapter (instead of TI's XDS+CCS) to connect to
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347 JTAG on TI/FC development boards, both D-Sample and FCDEV3B, gaining the power
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348 of Free Software instead of proprietary tools. For the details, please refer
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349 to the freecalypso-hwlab repository.