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1 Reset logic and on/off states in the Calypso+Iota chipset |
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4 Our beloved Calypso+Iota chipset provides a special reset signal (called |
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5 nTESTRESET on Leonardo schematics) that is just for testing, development and |
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6 debugging, not used at all in the normal life cycle of a phone handset or |
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7 modem. This special test reset is triggered when you press the RESET button on |
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8 a TI/FreeCalypso development board (D-Sample or FCDEV3B), and it can also be |
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9 triggered slightly indirectly through the reset pin on the TI-style JTAG |
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10 connector. The way this reset works is very quirky and requires a lot of |
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11 explanation, but before one can properly understand this test reset, we first |
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12 need to look at the "regular" power-on reset, switch-on and switch-off logic |
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13 that works in the absence of nTESTRESET. |
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15 Before looking at resets and switch-on and switch-off sequences, we first need |
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16 to understand the power domains that are involved. There are two major power |
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17 domains of interest: there is the main power domain that is physically powered |
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18 off when the mobile device is not in the switched-on state, and there is the |
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19 RTC power domain that is powered at all times whenever the battery is physically |
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20 present, or perhaps even from a separate backup battery (a tiny coin cell) that |
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21 provides RTC power when the main battery is removed. The always-on RTC power |
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22 domain allows the real time clock to maintain the time of day while the mobile |
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23 is otherwise off (hence the name), and it also provides power to the logic that |
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24 allows the rest of the mobile (the main power domain) to be powered on, |
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25 initialized, booted, run and eventually switched off again in an orderly manner. |
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27 All reset and on/off logic in our chipset happens in the VRPC (Voltage Reference |
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28 and Power Control) block in the Iota chip; all of Calypso and the rest of Iota |
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29 are fully subservient to this VRPC block. It is crucial to understand the |
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30 difference between powering on and off vs. switching on and off: in the |
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31 terminology that is established in TI's chip datasheets and application notes, |
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32 powering on means physically providing battery power to the chipset (inserting |
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33 the battery into a phone that had it removed, or connecting a VBAT power supply |
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34 to the orange power input connector on one of our development boards), and |
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35 powering off means physically removing all battery power, i.e., yanking the |
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36 battery out of a phone or disconnecting the power supply from the development |
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37 board. In board designs with a backup battery or a provision for one, it is |
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38 even more complicated: a power-on happens when either the main battery or a |
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39 backup battery becomes present, and a power-off happens when both batteries are |
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40 removed, leaving the Iota chipset without any energy source whatsoever. In |
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41 contrast, the actions of a user turning her phone on and off are called |
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42 switch-on and switch-off, respectively. |
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44 The RTC power domain is powered on and receives its power-on reset (POR) on a |
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45 power-on event and loses power only on a full power-off (complete loss of all |
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46 battery power), whereas the main power domain is powered on and lifted out of |
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47 reset only on a switch-on, and powered back down and held in reset on a |
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48 switch-off. The Calypso chip receives two reset signals from the Iota (meaning |
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49 that each signal is an output from the Iota and an input to the Calypso): |
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50 nRESPWON and ON_nOFF. The nRESPWON signal is asserted (active low) only on a |
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51 hardware power-on (and also on nTESTRESET as will be explained in due course) |
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52 and stays high (inactive) at all other times, whereas ON_nOFF is driven high on |
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53 switch-on and low on switch-off. When the ON_nOFF signal is driven low by the |
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54 Iota ABB in the switched-off state, all main (non-RTC) logic in the Calypso is |
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55 held in reset, and in any case that logic cannot function as the physical power |
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56 to it (coming from LDO regulators in the Iota) will typically be turned off. |
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57 When the Iota ABB drives ON_nOFF high on switch-on, it does so after the LDO |
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58 regulators for the main power domain have been turned on and have had enough |
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59 time to stabilize; in the Calypso chip the transition of ON_nOFF from low to |
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60 high causes the ARM7 core to boot. |
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62 A true power-on reset happens only when all battery power is removed and |
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63 reconnected: in simple designs without a backup battery one would need to |
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64 remove the main battery or the power supply providing VBAT and also disconnect |
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65 anything that may be feeding power into the system through pull-up resistors; |
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66 in more complex designs that feature a backup battery, both the main battery |
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67 and the backup battery would need to be removed and reconnected in order to |
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68 trigger a POR. Such a complete POR would reset the RTC power domain, and on |
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69 exit from the POR the VRPC block will be in the switched-off state, with |
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70 everything except the RTC powered off and waiting for the user to press the |
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71 PWON button. |
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73 The green LED on the FCDEV3B indicates the state of the ON_nOFF signal, and |
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74 thus allows you to see if the VRPC block is switched on (LED on) or switched |
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75 off (LED off). The actual VRPC state machine in the Iota chip is a little more |
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76 complicated and has 5 states, not just two (the states are NOBAT, BACKUP, OFF, |
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77 ACTIVE and SLEEP), but I am simplifying here - for the complete details, please |
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78 see the VRPC description in Iota datasheet TWL3025_SWRS021.pdf, section 4.10 |
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79 starting on page 40. The transition from OFF to ACTIVE (switch-on event) |
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80 happens whenever the PWON button is pressed or charging voltage is applied (on |
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81 hardware that has charging circuits), whereas commanding a switch-off (going |
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82 back to OFF) requires having Calypso ARM7 firmware establish communication with |
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83 the Iota ABB over SPI and send a DEVOFF command. If the Calypso firmware |
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84 requests a switch-off when the PWON button is held down (jumper on FCDEV3B) or |
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85 when a charging power source is present, the Iota VRPC goes through a switch-off |
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86 immediately followed by a switch-on, effecting a very deep kind of reboot. |
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88 nTESTRESET enters the picture |
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91 So where does nTESTRESET fit in the just-described architecture of on/off |
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92 switching and resets? Contrary to what one might naively think, it is NOT an |
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93 externally-triggerable way to simulate a POR, nor is it simply ANDed or ORed |
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94 together with some other internal reset signal. Instead as you can see in |
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95 Figure 4-8 on page 43 of the TWL3025_SWRS021.pdf datasheet, it is its own |
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96 separate and very special path through the VRPC state machine that is never |
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97 exercised at all in normal product operation. |
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99 When you press the RESET button or trigger a reset through JTAG connector pin 2 |
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100 (let's call it XDS_RESET), the VRPC state machine will unconditionally leave |
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101 whatever state it was in and will be forced into this special nTESTRESET state |
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102 that does not occur at any other time. For as long as nTESTRESET is held low, |
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103 both reset signals to the Calypso (nRESPWON and ON_nOFF) will be held low as |
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104 well, putting the Calypso into a POR-like superdeep reset, but meanwhile the |
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105 LDO regulators are fully turned on, not off! While nTESTRESET is held low, the |
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108 This combination of ON_nOFF low (green LED off) but regulators on happens only |
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109 in this special nTESTRESET-held-low state and not at any other time. |
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139 kind of "turn on" command, producing a switch-on that is distinguishable from |
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158 driving nTESTRESET from a programmatic source (presumably via the XDS_RESET |
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163 make-break bounce, that make-break noise will translate directly into Calypso |
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171 of an improperly timed reset. The nTESTRESET signal was clearly designed to be |
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182 drivers. It cannot, however, be driven by any kind of external push-pull |
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187 But TI Back In The Day had a need to drive this test reset from their XDS510 |
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188 and XDS560 "emulator" pods, and the only reset signal those pods put out is the |
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189 one that was originally intended for JTAG TRST (which does not exist in the |
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190 Calypso+Iota chipset), driven with a push-pull driver. TI's solution was to |
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191 insert a clever transistor circuit between JTAG connector pin 2 (the pin that |
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193 circuit is depicted on the available Leonardo schematics, it has been replicated |
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195 D-Sample board as well. The effect of this circuit is that whenever the |
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204 developers working with these boards: the reset signal isolation circuit can |
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207 switched-off state these regulators are turned off. Thus the operator needs to |
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213 the Iota regulators are off (VRPC in the switched-off state) if some leakage |
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230 regular firmware boot from this nTESTRESET switch-on, and then execute a |
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235 The secret magic was discovered by carefully studying the TCS211 firmware code |
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237 secret undocumented register (or perhaps many more, who knows) that is not |
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239 firmwares or standalone programs like our loadagent) that execute a Iota |
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240 poweroff (really switch-off) operation need to make a special write to this |
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244 We are calling this undocumented Iota register VRPCAUX (its official name is |
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245 unknown, but there is a seemingly-corresponding register in TI's newer Syren |
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246 ABB chip which the firmware calls VRPCAUX, and the name logically fits in terms |
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247 of the function), and it is accessed via undocumented register page 2. |
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248 Officially both Iota and Syren ABB chips only have register pages 0 and 1, but |
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249 it turns out that both chips also have an undocumented page 2 - and in order to |
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250 access this secret page 2, one first needs to issue a special (also secret) |
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253 So just *why* do we need to mess around with secret undocumented Iota registers |
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256 rest of the system is powered down in the switched-off state. Apparently this |
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258 reset-and-boot sequence is performed, this VRPCAUX register is loaded with a |
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260 of VRPCAUX in the absence of test reset operations is 0x007 (bit meaning unknown |
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261 of course when we are dealing with secret undocumented stuff), and this value |
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263 interrupts, who knows) to work correctly. But if we boot via nTESTRESET and |
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264 read the secret register, we see 0x2E7 instead - and if we do a normal DEVOFF |
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265 command without changing it to 0x007 first, we get into the broken state where |
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266 PWON switch-ons don't work. (It is very reassuring though that another |
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267 nTESTRESET always works no matter what - so it looks like this debug reset is |
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271 function in the chipsetsw/drivers/drv_core/abb/abb.c module, and it has this |
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274 // Restore the ABB checks and debouncing if start on TESTRESETZ |
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276 The code following this comment goes through the gymnastics of enabling access |
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278 VRPCAUX. (That's what it does for Iota; for Syren it also writes a few other |
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279 registers also in that same undocumented page 2.) Reproducing these steps in |
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280 our target-utils code (loadagent and friends) has resulted in the problem |
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282 exit loadtool (loadagent poweroff command executed on the target), and the |
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