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author | Richard Uhler <ruhler@mit.edu> | 2011-08-25 13:29:33 -0700 |
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committer | Øyvind Harboe <oyvind.harboe@zylin.com> | 2011-09-02 16:50:01 +0200 |
commit | 1411ad11c182d02769bb0954f7f5b01d66652a6b (patch) | |
tree | f8388ffdd507b81b5bbcaa431a0ce6153dde4604 /doc/manual/jtag | |
parent | 48e8d2d21c2f7c19a7d6616115f06fef99203d7e (diff) |
Implementation of a new jtag remote_bitbang driver.
The driver sends ascii encoded bitbang commands over unix sockets or TCP to
another process. This driver is useful for debugging software running on
processors which are being simulated.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual/jtag')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/jtag/drivers/remote_bitbang.txt | 53 |
1 files changed, 53 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/jtag/drivers/remote_bitbang.txt b/doc/manual/jtag/drivers/remote_bitbang.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000..5a800479 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/manual/jtag/drivers/remote_bitbang.txt @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +/** @remote_bitbangpage OpenOCD Developer's Guide + +The remote_bitbang JTAG driver is used to drive JTAG from a remote process. The +remote_bitbang driver communicates via TCP or UNIX sockets with some remote +process using an ASCII encoding of the bitbang interface. The remote process +presumably then drives the JTAG however it pleases. The remote process should +act as a server, listening for connections from the openocd remote_bitbang +driver. + +The remote bitbang driver is useful for debugging software running on +processors which are being simulated. + +The bitbang interface consists of the following functions. + +blink on + Blink a light somewhere. The argument on is either 1 or 0. + +read + Sample the value of tdo. + +write tck tms tdi + Set the value of tck, tms, and tdi. + +reset trst srst + Set the value of trst, srst. + +An additional function, quit, is added to the remote_bitbang interface to +indicate there will be no more requests and the connection with the remote +driver should be closed. + +These five functions are encoded in ascii by assigning a single character to +each possible request. The assignments are: + + B - Blink on + b - Blink off + R - Read request + Q - Quit request + 0 - Write 0 0 0 + 1 - Write 0 0 1 + 2 - Write 0 1 0 + 3 - Write 0 1 1 + 4 - Write 1 0 0 + 5 - Write 1 0 1 + 6 - Write 1 1 0 + 7 - Write 1 1 1 + r - Reset 0 0 + s - Reset 0 1 + t - Reset 1 0 + u - Reset 1 1 + +The read response is encoded in ascii as either digit 0 or 1. + + */ |