Introduction

This document provides the memory map and locations of reference materials for those who wish to add additional hardware to their NetBurner device.

MCF54415 Processor Information

The NANO54415 uses the NXP MCF54415 microprocessor. The reference manual and datasheet provide in-depth information on the microprocessor, including register settings, bus configuration and timing information. It is located in the <nburn_install>\docs\NXP directory of your NetBurner installation.

Datasheet

The datasheet for the NANO54415 module includes information on connectors, signal names, and operational parameters. It is located on the NANO54415 product page: NANO54415 Datasheet.

Development Board Schematic

The NANO54415 development board schematic is located in the <nburn_install>\docs\NetBurner\Platform\Schematics directory. This schematic can be used for design ideas in your own hardware implementation for power, RS-232, RS-485, and SD Flash card implementation.

Memory Operation

The NANO54415 uses 4 types of memory:

• A 4MB write protected serial SPI Flash chip containing the Boot Monitor and Alternate Boot monitor. This provides a recovery method should events such as a bad application that causes continuous traps, or application Flash memory corruption.
• A 8MB serial SPI Flash chip containing non-volatile system configuration storage, user application storage, the application in a compressed format, and the optional EFFS-STD file system (note this is different from the EFFS-FAT flash card file system).
• A 64MB DDR2 memory chip that contains the uncompressed application as well as any application data.
• 64KB on-chip SRAM located on the MCF54415 microprocessor.

The Boot Monitor executes at power-up and attempts to decompress the application into DDR2 RAM and begin execution. If the application is corrupted or does not exist, it will attempt to run the Alternate Boot Monitor. If the Alternate Boot Monitor cannot be run, the system will remain in the Boot Monitor. The Alternate Boot Monitor provides network communication to enable an application download, and is the normal recovery method should unrecoverable application errors occur. The Boot Monitor only provides serial communication.

Note

The reference to "2.x" is there for customers migrating from the NetBurner 2.x development tools. 2.x System Configuration is not used when running 3.x applications.

Processor Runtime Memory Map

The runtime memory map for the location of the microprocessors onboard SRAM and DDR2 RAM is shown below:

Application SPI Flash Memory

There is a total of 8MB SPI Flash memory used to store the compressed application and non-volatile parameters. Read/write operations are only accessible through system API functions. The memory does not appear in the microprocessor's address map.