6.2. PRU ICSS Profinet Device Release Notes¶
6.2.1. Overview¶
The PRU-ICSS Profinet Device package provides the foundation that facilitate application software development for Profinet Device on TI Sitara Embedded Processors with PRU-ICSS HW IP.
6.2.2. Licensing¶
Please refer to the software manifest, which outlines the licensing status for all packages included in this release. The manifest can be found on the SDK download page or in the installed directory as indicated below.
6.2.4. Documentation¶
- Software Developer Guide: Provides information on features, functions, delivery package and, compile tools for the release. This also provides detailed information regarding software elements and software infrastructure to allow developers to start creating applications.
- Getting Started Guide: provides information on getting the software and running basic examples/demonstrations bundled in the package.
- User Guide: Provides basic information on the applications
- Software Manifest: Provides license information on software included in the package. This document is in the release at the root directory of the package
- EVM Quick Start Guide: Provides information on hardware setup and running the demonstration application that is loaded on flash. This document is provided as part of the EVM kit.
6.2.4.1. Release 01.00.05¶
Released June 2022
6.2.4.1.3. Features supported¶
- PROFINET RT/IRT device
- Profinet I/O RT/IRT Device conforms to PROFINET Conformance classes A,B and C functionality.
- PROFINET I/O RT/IRT Device Features:
- Supports minimum cycle time of 250 us
- Integrated two-port cut-through switch, 100 Mb/s Full Duplex
- Relative forwarder, computes the Forward FSO for RTC3 frames which have to be forwarded
- Profinet Quality of Service(QoS)
- Four priority receive queues on host port, each queue 6 KB in size
- Four priority transmit queues on each physical port, each queue 3 KB in size
- Up to 8 Application Relations (ARs)
- 8 IOCRs
- 8 Consumer Protocol Machines (CPM)
- 8 Provider Protocol Machines (PPM)
- Supports PROFINET IO data size from 40 to 1440 Bytes
- Data Hold Timer
- DCP Identify Filter
- DCP Identify frame is given to host only if it is meant for it otherwise it is just forwarded
- Reduces the DCP Identify frames reaching host at a particular node at network startup
- One Step Time Synchronization (PTCP)
- 1 millisecond buffering per port
- 802.1d learning bridge for received source MAC addresses
- PNIO static routing and custom FDB for multicast addresses
- Interrupt Pacing
- Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP)
- Bump less transition of PROFINET connection to redundant path on ring break
- Switch address learned table (FDB) is flushed in 2.4 micro seconds
- Isochronous Mode
- Compliant with PNIO Test bundle 2021-07-29
- Compliant with Automated RT Tester Version 2.42.1.2
- Compliant with Profinet IRT SPIRTA Module Version 2.42.0.0001
- Integrated with Molex/TMG PROFINET stack v5.6.x evaluation version
- Integrated with HCC Embedded/Tuxera SNMP stack v3.10 evaluation version
6.2.4.1.5. PRU-ICSS Firmware Revision¶
| Platform | Build | Firmware Header Location |
|---|---|---|
| AM335x,AM437x,AMIC11x | 0.15.16 | protocols\profinet_slave\firmware\v1.0 |
| AM57x | 0.15.16 | protocols\profinet_slave\firmware\v2.1 |
6.2.4.1.6. Fixed Issues¶
| Record ID | Platform | Details | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINDSW-5361 | AM335x, AM437x AMIC11x, AM57xx | The device does not respond to network accesses after running the Netload test case 53 | None |
6.2.4.1.7. Known Issues¶
This section contains the list of Known Issues at the time of making the release.
| Record ID | Platform | Details | Workaround |
|---|---|---|---|
| PINDSW-392 | AM57xx | IRT Mode: DUT is not responding to DCP_Ident Requests when PLC is connected to wrong port of DUT | None |
| PINDSW-393 | AM57xx | IRT Mode: DUT is not responding to RPC Connect Request when PLC is connected to wrong port of DUT | None |
| PINDSW-1801 | AM57xx | Wrong or missing data in MIB-II | Interoperabilty Test failure: Use Profinet stack API to get proper values in mib integration layer (mib_impl.c) |
| PINDSW-2792 | AM335x, AM437x, AMIC11x, AM57xx | PNSlave: Re-ordering of frames while forwarding | None |
| PINDSW-5238 | AM57xx | The ART tests (Pdev_Check_onePort, AR-ASE and SM_Legacy) on AM571x are failing | None |
| PINDSW-5241 | AM572x | IP address is not saved to non-volatile memory on AM572x | None |
