AM335x SYSBIOS Industrial SDK 01.00.00.03 Release Notes

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April 02, 2012

= Introduction =

The SYSBIOS-based software development kit (SDK) for industrial communications is designed for the Sitara AM335x ARM Cortex-A8 microprocessor family to enable customers add real-time industrial communications easily and quickly to their system. By making all the basic system software components immediately available, the Kit allows developers to focus on their application code, where they can add the most differentiation. Optimized to support real-time industrial communications protocols such as EtherCAT, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet/IP and many others, the SDK includes a real-time, low-footprint SYSBIOS kernel with boot loader and sample industrial applications to get started quickly.

= Device Support =

The following devices are supported with the current release.


 * SOC's supported
 * AM335x
 * Hardware Platform Supported
 * AM335x IDK (also known as IA EVM)
 * AM335x ICE

= Obtaining the Release Package =


 * AM335x SYSBIOS Industrial SDK Download Page

= Documentation =

The following documents are provided with this release.


 * AM335x Industrial SDK Getting Started Guide
 * AM335x Industrial SDK User Guide

= What Is Supported =


 * Hardware Platform
 * AM335x IDK (also known as IA EVM)
 * AM335x ICE
 * SYSBIOS 6.33.0.19 Real Time Operating System
 * VFP, MMU, L1/L2 cache, INTC support
 * XDC Tools 3.23.00.32
 * Starterware boot loader
 * Boot from MMC/SD for IDK
 * Boot from SPI flash and NOR flash for ICE
 * Starterware based drivers integrated with SYSBIOS
 * PRUSS
 * Timer
 * UART
 * GPIO
 * I2C
 * EtherCAT Slave Controller
 * BeckHoff Slave Stack Version 5.0
 * EtherCAT Commands
 * 8 FMMU support in Firmware
 * 8 SM support in Firmware (stack support only 4)
 * DL Loop Control
 * EEPROM Emulation (volatile RAM)
 * Interrupts – AL/ECAT events
 * Watchdog – PDI &amp; SM
 * Error Counters – all key counters
 * LED – Run &amp; Error
 * CoE and EoE
 * Sample Applications
 * UART Echo
 * LED Control
 * EtherCAT slave
 * Host Development Platform And Toolchain
 * CCS V5.1 on Windows PC
 * TI TMS470 Codegen Tool 4.70 for Cortex-A8 (part of CCS5.1)

= What Is Not Supported =


 * In general, peripherals or features not mentioned as part of "What is Supported" section are not supported
 * For EtherCAT Slave Controller, the following features are not supported in this release
 * Distributed Clocks (DC)
 * Enhanced Link detection
 * Redundancy
 * LRW for process data
 * PDI side register permissions
 * PDI side support for 16/32 bit access
 * AP/FP/BRW/LRW for SM mapped area
 * ECAT side register protection for LRD
 * AL Event mask support

= New In This Release =


 * Run Time hardware detection - automatically detect ICE/IDK at run time so that single application binary can run on both.
 * NOR boot support on ICE - Enhance ICE bootloader for NOR boot support and eXecute In Place(XIP) from NOR Flash
 * Cache-Locking feature
 * Enhance the EtherCAT example application to demonstrate the following. New build configurations added to support the below features
 * Demonstrate XIP and Cache-Locking.
 * Demonstrate DDR-less operation both with NOR XIP, SPI boot and using only the internal on-chip memory
 * NOR Flasher Tool - CCS based program to Flash/Erase NOR

 NOTE 


 * To support different Load and Run address for applications, SDK has introduced a new header for application binaries. Hence the binaries generated with older version of SDK will not be compatible with this version's boot loader and vice versa. User's of old SDK version are adviced to migrate thier applications and bootloader to this version.

= Fixed In This Release =

None

= Known Issues And Limitations =

= Dependencies =

Refer to System Requirements section in AM335x Industrial SDK Getting Started Guide.

= Technical Support and Product Updates =

For further information or to report any problems, contact http://community.ti.com or http://support.ti.com.