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CPU - DSP1C

TODO

Basic description

Custom chip (ASIC) made for Vaisala by VLSI solution.

signature:

DSP1C
VAISALA
1101C
37130

Chip manufacturing process is 3 layer metal.

Pinouts

Pins are numbered counterclock-wise, pin 1 is near the small pit (ignore possible 2 large circles placed orthogonaly).

Pin state has been measured with osciloscope. Timing informations are inoccurate (+-50%).

PIN No. state (type) description
1 GND
2 VCC
3 I_SIGN (in) noise - signal from GPS RF module
4 I_MAGN (in) noise - signal from GPS RF module
5 Q_SIGN (in) noise - signal from GPS RF module
6 Q_MAGN (in) noise - signal from GPS RF module
7 CLK (in) 16.3676 MHz - clock from GPS RF module
8 0
9 0
10 0
11 0
12 0
13 GND
14 VCC
15 POW_RESET_IN (in) Power on reset
16 POW_RESET_OUT (out) go from 0 to 1 approx. 2 ms after powering CPU
- - -
17 SPI CLK
18 SPI MISO
19 SPI MOSI
20 SPI /CS EEPROM
21 1, ? /CS ? CON5 pin 10
22 SPI /CS GPS, IC3 - pin 18
23 1
24 GND
25 VCC
26 1
27 1
28 CLK (250 μs), CON5 pin 2
29 DATA (400 μs), CON5 pin 3
30 0
31 1
32 0
- - -
33 GND
34 VCC
35 CLK (50 μs)
36 connected to GND
37 connected to GND
38 connected to GND
39 1
40 connected to GND
41 CLK (1 μs)
42 connected to GND
43 DATA (150 ns)
44 GPIO_1_15 0
45 GPIO_1_14 ? 0
46 GPIO_1_13 ? 1
47 GND
48 VCC
- - -
49 GPIO_1_12 1, CON5 - pin 4
50 GPIO_1_11 0, CON5 - pin 11
51 GPIO_1_10 0, CON5 - pin 12
52 GPIO_1_9 1, CON2 - pin6
53 GPIO_1_8 1
54 GPIO_1_7 1, CON6 - pin 7, ? heating, 0 = on, 1 = off
55 GPIO_1_6 0, CON6 - pin 8, ? select heated element, 0 = upper, 1 = lower
56 GPIO_1_5 0, CON6 - pin 2, ?
57 GND
58 VCC
59 GPIO_1_4? 1
60 GPIO_1_3? 1
61 GND
62 GPIO_1_2? 1, CON2 - pin 1
63 GPIO_1_1 0
64 GPIO_1_0 0

CPU building blocks

block name type description
B1 ROM (2KB) 1K x 16 bit, mapped to Y, offset 0x1000
B2 SRAM (4KB) 256 x 16 x 8 bits, mapped to Y, offset 0x0
B3 SRAM (32KB) 512 x 32 x 16 bits, used for code, mapped to X, offset 0x2000
B4 ??? something relly complicated
B5 ??? block made from few smaller blocks
B6 ROM (4KB) 32 bit bus, code (bootloader and some basic routines), mapping to address space not found (anny way to read it by software?)
B7 ??? looks like long and a bit entangled wires
B8 memory/registers? ???
B9, B10 GPS 12x GPS processing block
B11 SRAM (3KB) 192 x 16 x 8 bits, mapped to X, offset 0x0
B12 ??? something with more stages
B13 ??? something complicated

Chip imge with block numbering

VSDPS decapped chip image

Those units might be implemented in HW:

CPU peripherals (SPI/GPIO/...)

I/O mapping

BUS X

address(es) boot value description
0x0000 - 0x05FF - X-RAM
0x2000 - 0x6000 - ???, instruction memory I/O port
0xFF83, 0xFF85 ??? ??? FW - (0xff83) = 0x3c3c, (0xff85) = 0x2d2d
0xFF95 ??? FW, → A0
0xFF96 0xffbf ???
0xFF97 - 0xFF98 0xffff, 0xffff ???
0xFF99 0xfdff ???, constant
0xFFA0 0x4000 ???, settable bits: 0xffc3, …
0xFFA1, 0xFFA2 ??? ???, FW: read to A as pair (0xFFA1, 0xFFA2) → (A0, A1)
0xFFA4 0x0001 SPI_CONFIG, settable bits: 0x01f7, …
0xFFA5 0x0001 SPI_DATA, read recieved data, (write to send data?)
0xFFA6 0x0000 SPI, EEPROM address?
0xFFA7 0x0000 SPI_LEN, bytes/words to transfer
0xFFAA 0x0003 ???, constant: 0x0001 / not writable?
0xFFAB 0x0000 ???, settable bits: 0x0003
0xFFAC 0x0000 ???, settable bits: 0x7fff
0xFFAD 0x07fe ???, settable bits: 0xffff
0xFFAE 0x0000 ???, settable bits: 0x00ff, …
0xFFAF 0x0000 ???, settable bits: 0x007f, …
0xFFB0 0x0000 ???, settable bits: 0x003f
0xFFB4 ??? FW, 0xffb4 → A0 …
0xFFB5 ??? FW: X[0xffb5] = 0x3;
0xFFB6 0x0000 USART? data, FW: write some data
0xFFB7 0x0000 USART? config
0xFFB8 0x0000 ???, …
0xFFB9 ???? ???, settable bits: 0xffff, …
0xFFBA - 0xFFBB ???, settable bits: 0xffff
0xFFBC 0x0412 ???, reads 0x0412 when set to 0x0, reads 0x0 when set to 0xffff, …
0xFFBE 0x0000 ???, const: 0x0000 (once 0x0004 ???), cleared by reading? Have something to do with interrupts?
0xFFBF 0x0000 ???, when read returns number of writes to this port (limited by something, now counts to 7 ), Have something to do with interrupts?
0xFFC0 0x2b0c GPIO_A_DATA data, see DSP1C pinouts for assignment
0xFFC1 0xcfff GPIO_A_DIR direction, 0 for input, 1 for output
0xFFC3 0x0000 ???, settable bits: 0xffff
0xFFC4 0x0000 ???, settable bits: 0xffff
0xFFC6 0x0000 settable bits: 0x7fff, counter, counts down, resets to 0x7FFF (or near this value), (watchdog?)
0xFFC7 0x0000 settable bits: 0xffff, counter, counts up, value is increased by one when 0xFFC6 underflows, (handled by interrupt?)
0XFFC8 0x0100 ???, constant; FW: while ( !(X[0xffc8] & 0x800) ) ;;
0xFFC9 0x0000 ???, 0x000 ⇒ 0x1800, 0xffff ⇒ 0x1bff, …
0xFFCA ??? ???, FW: X[0xffca] = 0x35; X[0xffca] = 0x47;
0xFFFE 0x01ff ????, settable bits: 0x07ff, when writen to 0xffff, power consumption increases +2mA; FW: X[0xfffe] &= 0xfdff; X[0xfffe] |= 0x400; X[0xfffe] |= 0x200;
0xFFFF 0x0026 ???, 0x0000 ⇒ 0x0020, 0xffff ⇒ 0x003f, lowest bit enables something when set to 0; FW if (X[0xffff] & 0x20); X[0xffff] &= 0xfffe; X[0xffff] |= 0x2; X[0xffff] |= 0x4;
(0xffa0)
SPI_CONFIG (0xffa4)
(0xffae, 0xffaf)
serial configuration / enable (0xffb7)
(0xffb8)
(0xffb9)
(0xffbc)
(0xffc9)

BUS Y

bus address(es) description
0x0000 - 0x07FF Y - RAM
0x0800 - 0x0FFF Y - RAM - identical content to previous block
0x1000 - 0x13FF data ROM

Interrupt vector

TODO: find interrupt enable registers

addr (I-RAM) description
0x20
0x21
0x22
0x23
0x24
0x25
0x26
0x27
0x28
0x29
0x2a
0x2b
0x2c
0x2d
0x2e
0x2f
0x30
0x31
0x32
0x33
0x34
0x35
0x36
0x37
0x38
0x39
0x3a
0x3b
0x3c
0x3d
0x3e
0x3f

Instruction ROM

ROM deconding

2 ROMs are present B1 and B6. Those ROMs use “drain contact programming”, for every data bit there is a N-fet transistor with Source connected to Vss, Gate connected to the wordline, but the drain may (logic 0) or may not (logic 1) be connected to the bitline.

When the 3 metal layers are removed (for example by etching), the connecting pads can be clearly seed and read. When the gold is present line is tied to ground and read as 0, when is missing (green spot), then line is read as 1. There are also 1:8 decoders, so to get valid data you need skip each 8 joints.

Identified fucntions in I-ROM

addr arguments result description
0x20f9 I2 = addr, D0 = 1 B1 read EEPROM (1B from 'addr' to B1)
0x21d6 I7 - addr?, D1 - uint16_t data D1 ??? store instruction memmory?
0x21d9 I7++ D1 load instruction memmory, (addr 0x2000 - 0x5FFF)
0x22ac I7, A0 ??? ??? used by stage 2 bootloader in latter stage of boot
0x22af I7, A0 ??? ??? used by stage 2 bootloader in latter stage of boot

Delayered ROM from chip

TODO: read bits and decode instruction from the ROM

delayered ROM with visible programing interconnections

pictures

Deccaped chip - low resolution. Credit: Klepko deccaped DSP1C chip - low resolution. Credit: Klepko

RTG image of Vaisala DSP1C chip with pin wiring visible RTG image of Vaisala DSP1C chip with pin wiring visible

RTG image of vaisala1608B1 with wiringvisible