Chapter 171. CDC-EEM Target USB driver

Chapter 171. CDC-EEM Target USB driver
	Part XLV. Ethernet Device Support

171.1. Introduction

eCosPro-CDCEEM is eCosCentric's commercial name for the USB peripheral device CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM package. The package is not included as standard in eCosPro Developer's Kit releases, but is available as a separate add-on package.

The CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM package implements a USB peripheral device CDC-EEM transport driver. The current implementation makes use of the generic Ethernet driver package CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_GENERIC_DIRECT to integrate with the lwIP TCP/IP stack.

The CDC-EEM peripheral driver is currently limited to use with the lwIP network stack, and is not available for the BSD network stacks. This is a limitation of the parent CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_GENERIC_DIRECT package, and not explicitly a limitation of this CDC-EEM peripheral driver.

Normally the eCos lwIP network interface should be configured to use AutoIP, so that a link-local network address is assigned. This ensures that when connected to hosts that do not provide a DHCP daemon, or support for routing to manual or application set network addresses, an automatic connection is still configured.

171.2. API

There is no “user” API as such, since the cyg_eth_drv_generic_transport_cdceem structure is exported via the __ETH_TRANSPORT_TAB__ table constructed at build-time, and referenced from the generic Ethernet device driver. The CDC-EEM driver just provides a transport driver for the generic Ethernet world.

The exported CDC-EEM device features are controlled by the CDL for the package.

171.3. Configuration

171.3.1. Configuration Overview

This section shows how to include the CDC-EEM support into an eCos configuration, and how to configure it once installed.

171.3.1. Configuration Overview

The CDC-EEM driver is contained in a single eCos package CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM. However, it depends on the services of a collection of other packages for complete functionality. Currently the CDC-EEM implementation is tightly bound with the generic Ethernet driver package CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_GENERIC_DIRECT.

Incorporating the CDC-EEM driver into your application is straightforward. The essential starting point is to incorporate the CDC-EEM eCos package (CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM) into your configuration.

This may be achieved directly using ecosconfig add on the command line, or the Build->Packages… menu item within the eCos Configuration Tool.

171.3.1.1. Configuring the CDC-EEM driver

Once added to the eCos configuration, the CDC-EEM package has a number of configuration options.

CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM_VID

The device VendorID. The VendorID number space is managed by the USB organisation, www.usb.org, and a unique ID must be formally obtained.

In conjunction with the CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM_PID value this is used to uniquely identify a specific peripheral product to the host O/S environment.

	Note
	The VID is normally expressed as a 16-bit hexadecimal number, but the eCos graphical configurarion tool will normally display the value as a decimal.

CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM_PID

The device ProductID. The ProductID number space is managed by the vendor. This ID is sometimes used to uniquely identify specific devices as regards the host device driver needed to communicate with the target device. It is the responsibility of the developer to manage this internal (company) number space.

	Note
	The PID is normally expressed as a 16-bit hexadecimal number, but the eCos graphical configurarion tool will normally display the value as a decimal.

CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM_MANUFACTURER

A human-readable device manufacturer identification string, that is returned as part of the device USB description. The string may be used by the host O/S in its description of the product presented to end-users.

CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM_PRODUCT

A human-readable product identification string, that is returned as part of the device USB description. Like the manufacturer string this may be used on the host when presenting a device to the user.

CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM_SERIAL_FIXED

Depending on the product requirements the serial number returned as part of the USB descriptor can either be supplied at run-time by the application HAL or defined by the CDL and fixed for a binary build.

The former approach relies on the HAL having a method of obtaining a unique identifier from the hardware from which to construct a unique serial number string. This is normally the preferred approach to providing per-device unique identification, and is used when this option is disabled. When this option is enabled the build uses the string defined by this option as the value returned in the device USB description. This latter approach is less flexible if different physical devices need a unique ID since the CDL will need to be modified and a unique binary constructed for each specific device. If the devices do not need to present a unique identity then the same serial number can be configured into the binary build with the same value being used across all target devices.

CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM_POWERED

This option defines how the device declares its power state to the host, and should be configured to match the hardware implementation supporting the CDC-EEM target driver. When configured as Bus powered then a further configuration option is made available:

CYGPKG_DEVS_ETH_USB_CDCEEM_MAXPOWER: When bus-powered this option specifies the maximum power consumption of the device.

CYGIMP_CDCEEM_CRC_RX

When enabled verify EEM packet CRC on reception. If disabled then the CRC is ignored and all received packets are passed to the parent Ethernet driver.

CYGIMP_CDCEEM_CRC_TX

If enabled then a CRC is calculated for every EEM packet transmitted. When disabled the special 0xDEADBEEF CRC sentinel is used. NOTE: It is recommended to leave this option disabled currently, since problems have been seen where Linux host drivers will incorrectly calculate the CRC and drop packets."

CYGDBG_CDCEEM_DIAGNOSTICS

When enabled this option allows diagnostic output to be generated for different subsystems within the CDC-EEM driver, and a set of further options are made available for configuration. This information is primarily for internal driver development, and is not normally needed when debugging applications using the USB CDC-EEM network driver. The debug output is sent to the diagnostic console channel as configured for the application.

171.4. Debug and Test

171.4.1. Debugging

171.4.1. Debugging

171.4.1.1. Asserts

If the target platform resources allow the first step in debugging should be to enable ASSERTs. The inclusion of assert checking will increase the code footprint and lower the performance, but do allow the code to catch internal errors from unexpected data values. e.g. when the application/client is not able to guarantee the validity of data passed into the CDC-EEM layer.

The CDC-EEM transport driver asserts are controlled via the standard eCos Infrastructure CYGPKG_INFRA package CYGDBG_USE_ASSERTS option. If enabled then run-time assertion checks are performed by the CDC-EEM driver.

If assertions are enabled, and a debugger is being used it is normally worth-while setting a breakpoint on the cyg_assert_fail symbol so that the debugger will stop prior to entering the default busy-loop processing.

171.4.1.2. Diagnostic Output

In conjuction with the CYGDBG_CDCEEM_DIAGNOSTICS CDL configuration setting, the source-file src/cdceem.c implements the CDC-EEM specific diagnostics control.

When CYGDBG_CDCEEM_DIAGNOSTICS is enabled a set of individually selectable sub-systems are available to control the diagnostic output generated.

However, when developing or debugging the CDC-EEM driver implementation it may be simpler (with less build side-effects) to control the debugging output via uncommenting the necessary manifests at the head of the src/cdceem.c source file than re-configuring the complete eCos configuration via the CDL. That way only the CDC-EEM package will be re-built.

	Note
	Some diagnostic output if enabled may adversely affect the operation of the CDC-EEM driver as seen by 3rd-party code. For example, “slow” serial diagnostic output of the packet parsing and response generation could mean that a significant amount of time passes, such that the CDC-EEM driver no longer adheres to the timings required by the USB host driver.


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