mac-rom-simm-programmer/main.c
Doug Brown 7425af761a Break out code into a HAL, optimize flash operations
This makes the code pretty easily portable to other architectures if someone
wants to make a more modern SIMM programmer. I also was pretty careful to split
responsibilities of the different components and give the existing components
better names. I'm pretty happy with the organization of the code now.

As part of this change I have also heavily optimized the code. In particular,
the read and write cycle routines are very important to the overall performance
of the programmer. In these routines I had to make some tradeoffs of code
performance versus prettiness, but the overall result is much faster
programming.

Some of these performance changes are the result of what I discovered when
I upgraded my AVR compiler. I discovered that it is smarter at looking at 32-bit
variables when I use a union instead of bitwise operations.

I also shaved off more CPU cycles by carefully making a few small tweaks. I
added a bypass for the "program only some chips" mask, because it was adding
unnecessary CPU cycles for a feature that is rarely used. I removed the
verification feature from the write routine, because we can always verify the
data after the write chunk is complete, which is more efficient. I also added
assumptions about the initial/final state of the CS/OE/WE pins, which allowed me
to remove more valuable CPU cycles from the read/write cycle routines.

There are also a few enormous performance optimizations I should have done a
long time ago:

1) The code was only handling one received byte per main loop iteration. Reading
   every byte available cut nearly a minute off of the 8 MB programming time.
2) The code wasn't taking advantage of the faster programming command available
   in the chips used on the 8 MB SIMM.

The end result of all of these optimizations is I have programming time of the
8 MB SIMM down to 3:31 (it used to be 8:43).

Another minor issue I fixed: the Micron SIMM chip identification wasn't working
properly. It was outputting the manufacturer ID again instead of the device ID.
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/*
* main.c
*
* Created on: Nov 25, 2011
* Author: Doug
*
* Copyright (C) 2011-2012 Doug Brown
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
*
* -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* TODO: Add smarter short detection? Automatically run an electrical test at
* startup and leave everything in input mode if shorts are detected?
* I'm especially thinking about the case of SIMM control pins shorted
* together, like CS and OE, which will default to opposite output values.
* Is this even worth implementing? It's probably only useful when testing
* newly-built SIMMs. We would need to implement a protocol for this so
* the programmer software can be alerted that a short was detected.
*/
#include "hal/board.h"
#include "hardware.h"
#include "hal/parallel_bus.h"
#include "tests/simm_electrical_test.h"
#include "simm_programmer.h"
#include "led.h"
/** Main function
*
* @return Never; the main loop is an infinite loop.
*/
int main(void)
{
DisableInterrupts();
Board_Init();
LED_Init();
// If there was a brownout detected, turn on the LED momentarily
if (Board_BrownoutDetected())
{
LED_On();
DelayMS(500);
LED_Off();
}
// Initialize everything and turn on interrupts
ParallelBus_Init();
SIMMProgrammer_Init();
EnableInterrupts();
// Main loop
while (1)
{
SIMMProgrammer_Check();
}
return 0;
}