TriCore® Connecting Low-Side SwitchTLE6244X to Microcontroller TC1796 using the Microsecond Bus -description

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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Page
1
1.1
1.2
1.3
Introduction ................................................................................................... 4
Introduction Microsecond Bus ....................................................................... 4
Introduction TLE6244X and Application Board.............................................. 5
Introduction TC1796 and TriBoard ................................................................ 6
2
Hardware Connections and Visualization...................................................... 9
3
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
Software ...................................................................................................... 11
ASC0 Initialization ....................................................................................... 12
MSC0 Initialization ...................................................................................... 12
SSC0 Initialization ....................................................................................... 13
GPTA0 Initialization..................................................................................... 14
4
4.1
4.1.1
4.1.2
4.1.3
4.1.4
4.1.5
4.1.6
4.1.7
4.1.8
4.1.9
4.1.10
4.1.11
4.1.12
Menu ........................................................................................................... 15
Main Menu .................................................................................................. 16
Show TLE6244X Registers ..................................................................... 16
Change Control Mode (SPI/ usBus/ parallel)........................................... 16
Reset Diagnostics of TLE6244X ............................................................. 16
Send Data to TLE6244X ......................................................................... 16
Reset TLE6244X ..................................................................................... 17
Change Control Mode ............................................................................. 17
Send Data to TLE6244X ......................................................................... 17
Select MSC source.................................................................................. 18
Change MSC Data Register.................................................................... 18
Send Data via SPI ................................................................................... 18
Change GPTA clock: up.......................................................................... 18
Change GPTA clock: up.......................................................................... 19
5
Jitter– and Latency Measurement ............................................................... 20
6
6.1
6.2
Appendix ..................................................................................................... 23
Reference.................................................................................................... 23
Tools ........................................................................................................... 23
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Introduction
1
Introduction
This application note describes how the TLE6244X can be connected to the TC1796
using the microsecond bus to drive the output stages with patterns generated by the
GPTA (General Purpose Timer Array) of the TC1796.
The software gives the possibility to access the TLE6244X with a terminal program
and change the configuration.
1.1
Introduction Microsecond Bus
The microsecond Bus (usBus, also µSB) is a serial interface which is especially
designed to connect external power devices to a microcontroller. The usBus can
provide real-time control of outputs that until now have only been possible using
discrete or PWM I/O ports of the microcontroller. This control is achieved using serial
communication instead of parallel signal lines. The microsecond bus can run at higher
frequencies than the standard SPI, providing faster response for outputs that are
controlled serially. The allowed tolerance of the bus frequencies further ensures
precise control of output timing. The real-time control capability of the microsecond bus
means that fewer parallel ports from the microcontroller as well as to the slave device
are required. The usBus can send the data to the slave with more than 32 MHz
(downstream) and receive data and status information via a low speed asynchronous
serial data stream (upstream channel).
Figure 1
TLE6244X connected to TC1796
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Introduction
1.2
Introduction TLE6244X and Application Board
The TLE6244X is an 18-fold Low-Side Switch (0.35 Ω to 1 Ω) in Smart Power
Technology (SPT) with a Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) and 18 open drain DMOS
output stages. The TLE6244X is protected by embedded protection functions and
designed for automotive and industrial applications.
The output stages can be controlled via the SPI interface or directly in parallel for
PWM applications.
Additionally a usBus interface is available to control the power stages OUT1...OUT7
and OUT9...OUT16 with a refresh rate of one microsecond (16 signals @ 16 MHz),
thus giving the bus its name.
Figure 2
TLE6244X Block Diagram
The Application Board TLE6244X is equipped with a 5V linear voltage regulator that
can be connected directly to 12V so the TLE6244X can be supplied from Vbat.
On the Board there are 21 power screw terminals (X1) for all power lines (Outputs,
VDD, Vbat, GND) and a 50 pin connector (X2) for all "non power" lines where the
upper row contains the signals, the lower row is GND.
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Introduction
Figure 3
TLE6244X Application Board
For using the application board with MSC control all the DIP switches have to be off
except for SW1.1 (Vdd supply over onboard voltage regulator).
1.3
Introduction TC1796 and TriBoard
The TC1796 is a high performance microcontroller with TriCoreTM CPU, program and
data memories, internal buses, an interrupt controller, a peripheral control processor
(PCP2) and a DMA controller, several on-chip peripherals, and an external bus
interface. The TC1796 is designed to meet the needs of the most demanding
embedded control systems applications where the competing issues of
price/performance, real-time responsiveness, computational power, data bandwidth,
and power consumption are key design elements.
The TC1796 offers several versatile on-chip peripheral units such as serial controllers,
timer units, and Analog-to-Digital converters. Within the TC1796, all these peripheral
TM
CPU/system via two Flexible Peripheral
units are connected to the TriCore
Interconnect (FPI) Buses. Several I/O lines on the TC1796 ports are reserved for these
peripheral
units
to
communicate
with
the
external
world.
The operating frequency is up to 150 MHz.
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Introduction
Figure 4
TC1796 Block Diagram
To connect power devices via the usBus the TC1796 has two Micro Second Channel
Interface (MSC) modules with following features:
•
High-speed synchronous serial transmission on downstream channel
– Serial output clock frequency: fFCL = fMSC/2 = 40 MHz
– Fractional clock divider for precise frequency control of serial clock fMSC
– Command, data, and passive frame types
– Start of serial frame: software controlled, timer controlled, or free running
– Programmable upstream data frame length (16 or 12 bits)
– Transmission with or without SEL bit
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Introduction
– Flexible chip select generation indicates status during serial frame transmission
– Emergency stop without CPU intervention
•
Low-speed asynchronous serial reception on upstream channel
– Baud rate: fMSC divided by 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, or 512
– Standard asynchronous serial frames
– Parity error checker
– 8-to-1 input multiplexer for SDI line
– Built-in spike filter on SDI
The TC1796 Evaluation Board (TriBoard) is equipped with external memories (Flash
and RAM) and peripherals for connection to the environment. There is also an
interface for the On Chip Debugging Features (OCDS1 and OCDS2). To connect the
TLE6244X to the TC1796 the connectors X801…X804 are used.
Figure 5
TC1796 Evaluation Board
For this application only internal memory is used, so it is easy to run the software on
other hardware too.
To
start
from
internal
i.e. S301.[1:4] = On Off On On.
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flash
HWCFG[3:0]
8
has
to
be
0010b;
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Hardware Connections and Visualization
2
Hardware Connections and Visualization
To control the TLE6244X with the TC1796 different interfaces have to be used.
The data for the output stages of the TLE6244X can be sent using the MSC0 of the
TC1796 while all commands are sent using the SPI interface. For this the TC1796’s
SSC0 is used. With the SPI commands the TLE6244X can be configured to use the
usBus for the data.
As the TLE6244X doesn’t have an upstream channel the feedback (status) is also
received over the SPI.
Table 1
Pin Connection TLE6244X - TC1796
TLE6244X
Function
Powersupply
SPI
Control
Signals
usBus
Vbat
VDD
TC1796
Function
-
55
54
53
56
31
30
GND
X2.1
X2.3
X2.5
X2.7
X2.13
X2.15
Vss
MTSR0
SCLK0
MRST0
SLSO0
GPIO P2.4
GPIO P2.5
IN6 /
FDA
63
X2.29
SOP0B /
P9.7 /
GPTA55
IN7 /
SSY
61
X2.31
IN16 /
FCL
62
X2.49
Vbat
VDD
GND
SI
SCK
SO
SS
Reset
ABE
Pin
23
47
TLE6244X
AppBoard
EN01 /
P9.6 /
GPTA54
FCLP0B /
P9.8 /
GPTA56
extern
Pin
-
12 V
-
AF15
AF14
AE15
AE14
D1
C1
GND
-
D20
-
C19
-
C20
-
The SPI uses the signals SCK (clock), SI/ SO (data) and SS (chip select). The signals
FCL, FDA and SSY of the usBus are comparable to these standard SPI signals.
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Hardware Connections and Visualization
Figure 6
Connections Overview
For visualisation LEDs are connected to the 18 switches, so it is possible to see which
channel is active.
Figure 7
Picture of TriBoard TC1796 and Applicationboard TLE6244X
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3
Software
The software does the setup of the required peripherals (ASC0, SSC0, MSC0 and
GPTA0), configures the TLE6244X for usBus communication and allows the user to
control the communication modes and patterns and to read the status of the
TLE6244X.
The TC1796 is clocked with a 16 MHz quartz. If another quartz is used the CPU
frequency has to be adapted (to 150MHz) using the PLL.
Figure 8
Program Flow
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Software
3.1
ASC0 Initialization
The asynchronous/synchronous serial interfaces (ASC0) is used for the
communication between the PC and the TC1796 using the RS232 standard. A
terminal program (like MTTTY or HyperTerminal) displays the data from the TC1796
and TLE6244X and sends the control data.
The ASC0 uses a baud rate of 19 200 Bit/s and 8-bit data asynchronous operation with
one stop bit and no parity. The terminal program has to be set up accordingly.
3.2
MSC0 Initialization
The Micro Second Channel Interfaces (MSC0) of the TC1796 can be configured in
many different ways to match the requirements of different devices. The TLE6244X
uses following settings:
- 16 data bits for each data-frame (at the pin FDA)
- 16 clock-pulses for each data-frame (at the pin FCL)
- clock frequency: 1...16 MHz
- one sync -input (pin SSY) to latch the input data stream
- no error correction
In the TLE6244X only the powerstages OUT1...OUT7 and OUT9...OUT16 can be
controlled by the usBus interface. The other ones can only be controlled by SPI or
parallel interface.
Figure 9
usBus Communication
The MSC module of the TC1796 can reach a serial output clock frequency of
37.5 MHz. For this the serial data and clock outputs of the downstream channels are
connected with dedicated LVDS differential output drivers for better EMC.
It has a flexible chip select generation to connect more than one power device and it
can indicate command frames and data frames so no SPI interface is needed. The
frame length is programmable and the data from the power device (status information)
can be received via a low-speed asynchronous serial upstream channel.
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The TC1796’s MSC module with this enhancements is a usBus interface of the 2nd
st
generation whereas the TLE6244X is 1 generation.
3.3
SSC0 Initialization
The synchronous serial interface (SSC0) is used for the SPI communication between
the TC1796 and the TLE6244X.
After power up the TLE6244X can only be accessed and controlled by the SPI
interface. Control of the power stages with the usBus interface has to be enabled by
sending a SPI command.
The maximal clock frequency is 5 MHz. The SSC0 uses a transfer data widths of 16
bit, transfer and receive of the MSB is first. The idle clock line is low while the transmit
data is shifted on the leading clock edge and latched on the trailing edge.
Figure 10
SPI communication
The TLE6244X has a couple of SPI instructions so it is possible to read data from the
device or write the registers. An overview of the instructions can be found in the
TLE6244X datasheet.
Figure 11
TLE6244X SPI access format
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With the SPI instructions it is possible to check if a TLE6244X (or other device) is
connected and if the communication is working. The software will notiy a message if
no device is connected or the communication is disturbed.
3.4
GPTA0 Initialization
The General Purpose Timer Array (GPTA0) provides a set of timers, compare and
capture functionalities, which can be flexibly combined to form signal measurement
and signal generation units. They are optimized for tasks being found in engine,
gearbox, electrical motor control applications, but can be used as well to generate
simple and complex signal waveforms needed in other industrial applications.
In this application the GPTA0 is used to generate some PWM pattern to be sent with
the usBus to the TLE6244X. There is the possibility to connect the GPTA outputs
directly to the MSC0 shift register so the data can be transferred without any CPU
interaction.
The GPTA0 generates 4 times 4 output signals with different duty cycles using the
same period in each group of 4.
Figure 12
GPTA pattern
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Menu
4
Menu
After the initialization the main menu to control the TC1796 and TLE6244X is
displayed in the terminal program after pressing “space”. The menu will always be
shown after pressing “space”.
Figure 13
Main Menu after Initialization displayed with MTTTY
There are two submenus with some more selections. To go back from the submenu to
the main menu just a non-valid selection has to be used.
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Menu
4.1
Main Menu
The main menu’s different selections can be activated by pressing the number (resp.
‘r’ for “Reset”) printed at the beginning of the line.
Table 2
Main Menu Selections
Main Menu
0
Show TLE6244X Registers
1
Change Control Mode (SPI/ usBus/ parallel)
2
Reset Diagnostics of TLE6244X
3
Send Data to TLE6244X
r
Reset TLE6244X
4.1.1
Show TLE6244X Registers
The registers of the TLE6244X are read via the SPI interface and displayed. The #ABE
pin (VDD-monitoring and shut-off signal) of the TLE6244X is connected to the port pin
P2.5 of the TC1796 and is also displayed.
Any fault condition of the TLE6244X can be seen in this registers. So this information
can be used by the software to detect failures and react on them.
4.1.2
Change Control Mode (SPI/ usBus/ parallel)
The submenu “Change Control Mode (SPI/ usBus/ parallel)” is displayed.
4.1.3
Reset Diagnostics of TLE6244X
The diagnostic registers of the TLE6244X are not reset automatically after eliminating
the fault, so they have to be reset by software. This is done by writing the DEL_DIA
SPI instruction.
4.1.4
Send Data to TLE6244X
The submenu “Send Data to TLE6244X” is displayed.
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Menu
4.1.5
Reset TLE6244X
The reset pin of the TLE6244X is connected to the port pin P2.4 of the TC1796. The
TC1796 puts this pin to low for more than 1 µs so the TLE6244X is reset.
4.1.6
Change Control Mode
The submenu “Change Control Mode” allows changing the way the TLE6244X is
controlled.
Table 3
Submenu Change Control Mode
Change Control Mode (SPI/ usBus/ parallel)
1
Change Control Mode to SPI
2
Change Control Mode to usBus
3
Change Control Mode to parallel
The multiplexer of the TLE6244X is changed with the SPI instructions so that the
different control modes are selected.
The TC1796’s mode isn’t changed; it always sends a signal on the MSC and SPI. The
parallel inputs are not connected, they can be changed using the Application Board’s
switches.
4.1.7
Send Data to TLE6244X
The submenu “Send Data to TLE6244X” gives the possibility to change the data that is
send to the TLE6244X.
Table 4
Submenu Send Data to TLE6244X
Send Data to TLE6244X
1
Select MSC source (GPTA or DD Register)
2
Change MSC Data Register
3
Send Data via SPI
4
Change GPTA clock: up
5
Change GPTA clock: down
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4.1.8
Select MSC source
The TC1796 offers the possibility to use either the data from the MSC downstream
data register or to use directly the output from the GPTA to send over usBus.
Figure 14
GPTA Connection to MSC
It is possible to select the connections bitwise. The software only switches all the
channels to either GPTA or MSC_DD.
4.1.9
Change MSC Data Register
The value of the downstream data can be changed by typing in hexadecimal format.
As the MSC_DD register is 32-bit wide 8 digits has to be sent over the RS232. Not
valid characters are ignored. For the TLE6244X only the lower 2 Bytes (4 digits) are
relevant.
4.1.10
Send Data via SPI
This selection sends one time a dynamic pattern over the SPI where every channel is
switched on and off in numerical order and reverse.
4.1.11
Change GPTA clock: up
This selection increments the clock frequency for the GPTA’s timer using the prescaler
of the clock distribution unit. This shortens the period length.
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4.1.12
Change GPTA clock: up
This selection decrements the clock frequency for the GPTA’s timer using the
prescaler of the clock distribution unit, the period will increase.
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Jitter– and Latency Measurement
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Jitter– and Latency Measurement
The usBus is designed to provide real-time control of outputs although it is a serial
interface. For real-time control the time between the GPTA switching from high to low
(or vice versa) until the TLE6244X output stage switches is relevant. This jitter and
latency can be measured by connecting the GPTA’s signal directly to a port pin. The
other signals are already available at the port pins, so an oscilloscope can be used for
the measurement.
The TLE6244X latches the usBus data with a rising edge of the SSY signal. So the
jitter is the time from the change of the GPTA signal until the rising edge of the SSY
whereby the new data of the GPTA has to be transmitted in the same usBus frame.
Figure 15
Jitter measurement (Ch1: GPTA signal; Ch2: SSY; Ch3 : FDA)
In this figure the new level of the GPTA is transmitted with the next data frame
because it was to late to take this new data for the already started transmission. Here
the latency is 2.76 µs; the frame length is 1.5 µs. The baudrate of the usBus is
12.5 MHz.
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Jitter– and Latency Measurement
The maximum jitter is less than two times the frame length. This worst case would
occur when the GPTA changes the level very short after the MSC module latching the
data for the next transmission.
The minimum jitter is about the frame length when the GPTA changes the level very
short before the MSC module is latching the new data. This case can be seen in the
next figure.
Figure 16
Jitter measurement (Ch1: GPTA signal; Ch2: SSY; Ch3 : FDA)
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Jitter– and Latency Measurement
After the TLE6244X latching the data it takes some additional time until the power
stage switches to the new level.
Figure 17
Latency measurement (Ch1: GPTA signal; Ch2: SSY; Ch3: FDA;
Ch 4: TLE6244X power stage output)
The delay time is tdon + tson. In this case it takes 4.6 µs until the power stage has
reached the new level (0.2UBatt). This latency has no influence on PWM accuracy
where an accurate duty cycle is needed, because this time is always constant. This
means the signal is only delayed.
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Appendix
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Appendix
6.1
Reference
• Data sheet TLE6244X, V4.2, 2003-08-29
• Application Note “Application Board TLE6244X”, V 1.1, Jan 2003
• Target Specification TC1796 (B-Step), V 2.2, June 2004
System Unit and Peripheral Unit
• User’s Manual TriBoard TC1796, V 3.0, June 2004
6.2
•
•
•
•
Tools
DAvE V2.1 with TC1796 Support V2.2
HighTec Compiler Development Suite V2.4
pls Debugger V1.10.02
MTTTY V4.00
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