Sundance SMT365 - Manual (Page 13)

Version 2.3 Page 13 of 28 SMT365 User Manual
This mechanism is identical in operation to that needed for the largest ZBTRAM
chipsets.
Virtex FPGA
The FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) is a Xilinx Virtex-II device XC2V2000 (or
XC2V1000). Is is mapped on EMIFA CE1 as a 32-bit SDRAM.
It implements the following communication resources:
• Six comport interfaces
• Two 32-bit Sundance digital bus interfaces
• One global bus interface
Version control
Revision numbers for both the boot code and FPGA firmware are stored in the Flash
ROM during programming as zero-terminated ASCII strings.
The SMT6001 utility can be used to display the version numbers of the bootloader
and the FPGA data.
Firmware versions
The SMT6001 utility includes the latest version of the bootloader and the latest
version of the FPGA data that implements the FPGA architecture described in the
SMT6500 help file .
Note that the new firmware does not support the 16-bit SDB interfaces. Only two 32-
bit SDB interfaces are presented on the TIM connectors. Customers who wish to use
the old firmware that supported 16-bit options can obtain it
from our support web
forum .
Reprogramming the firmware and boot code
The contents of the flash ROM are managed using the SMT6001 utility . This includes
the latest firmware and bootloader along with complete documentation on how to
reprogram the ROM. The utility assumes that you have Code Composer Studio
installed and that it has been configured correctly for the installed TIMs. The
Sundance Wizard can help you with this.
To confirm that the ROM has been programmed correctly, you should run the
confidence test in the BoardInfo utility (SMT6300).