"TrustZone_Cortex-A9AC6" example does not run normally

Hi Stephen, thank you for your great support

The problem happened for both FVP model and real hardware. In both cases, I am connecting the Cyclone V dev kit to the PC, where the ARM DS IDE ver21.1 is installed.

There are no error messages shown in the Commands view.

About modifying the memory addresses, I didn't done that before and I am not sure how to modify them. Can you please help in this point?

Thanks a lot, your support is highly appreciated.

Hi again Mohammed

Sorry, I can't explain why you are not seeing the correct output when connected to the FVP model.
I suggest you delete the project from the workspace, then re-import it afresh.  It is supplied pre-built, so there's no need to recompile it. 
Double click on TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6-FVP.launch, and press Debug.  Does the FVP model launch? 
You should see in the Commands view:

Connected to stopped target Arm FVP (Installed with Arm DS) - VE_Cortex_A9x1
cd "C:\Users\yourname\Development Studio Workspace"
Working directory "C:\Users\yourname\Development Studio Workspace"
Execution stopped in SVC mode at S:0x00000000
loadfile "C:\Users\yourname\Development Studio Workspace\TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6\TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6.axf"
S:0x00000000   DCI      0xe7ff0010 ; ? Undefined
Loaded section SECURE_EXE: S:0x80000000 ~ S:0x800012FF (size 0x1300)
Loaded section SECURE_EXE: S:0x80001300 ~ S:0x80001307 (size 0x8)
Loaded section NORMAL_IMAGE: S:0x80100000 ~ S:0x8010103F (size 0x1040)
Entry point S:0x80000000
Semihosting server socket created at port 8000
Semihosting enabled automatically due to semihosting symbol detected in image 'TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6.axf'
set debug-from *$ENTRYPOINT
start
Starting target with image C:\Users\yourname\Development Studio Workspace\TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6\TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6.axf
Running from entry point
wait
Execution stopped in SVC mode at S:0x80000000
In startup_secure.s
S:0x80000000   51,0   MSR     CPSR_c, #Mode_SVC:OR:I_Bit:OR:F_Bit   ; No interrupts
add-symbol-file "${workspace_loc:/TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6/normal.axf}" N:0

To modify the Arm DS examples to work on your hardware, first find out where there is RAM on your board.  In general, you must then modify the scatter-file (.scat) or linker --ro-base=address, replacing the 0x8xxxxxxx-based addresses ("RAM" in the FVP model) with the base address of RAM on your board, and re-compile.

The TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6 might not be easy to port, because it assumes the existence of a BP147 TrustZone controller (is there one on your board? if so, at what address?), and has two scatter-files.  You'll need to modify the addresses in both scatter-files to match the RAM (and TrustZone controller) on your board.

It might be easier to start with a simpler example, such as the "startup_Cortex-A9_AC6" example.  That has a single scatter-file, and no dependence of any special hardware.

Hope this helps

Stephen

Hi Stephen, thank you again for your great support

I re-imported the project and debug it according to your suggestion, some errors were found in the Commands Views, please check them in below. I think you are right, there is a problem with the RAM base addresses, is it possible to know the base address of the RAM on my board from the error messages? If no, how to find out them please? The error messages contains some addresses that started with "0x0000....", is that means the base address in my board is "0x00000000"?

Thanks a lot, your support is highly appreciated.

-------------------------------------------- Error messages on the Commands Views --------------------------------------

Stopping running target Intel SoC FPGA - Cyclone V SoC (Single Core) on connection
Connected to running target Intel SoC FPGA - Cyclone V SoC (Single Core)
Execution stopped in ABT mode at S:0xFFFF000C
Target Message: Memory access caused precise abort.
Debug Precise Abort Registers : DFSR = 0x0000100C, DFAR = 0xFFFF0000
Target Message: Memory access caused precise abort.
Debug Precise Abort Registers : DFSR = 0x0000100C, DFAR = 0xFFFF000C
ERROR(CMD256-TAD10-NAL18):
! Unable to display contents at location "S:0xFFFF000C"
! Failed to read 4 bytes from address S:0xFFFF000C
! Bus error on memory operation.
cd "C:\Users\Mohammed Lami\Development Studio Workspace"
Working directory "C:\Users\Mohammed Lami\Development Studio Workspace"
Execution stopped in ABT mode at S:0xFFFF000C
source /v "C:\Program Files\Arm\Development Studio 2021.1\sw\debugger\configdb\Scripts\altera_target_check.py"
Target Message: Memory access caused precise abort.
Debug Precise Abort Registers : DFSR = 0x0000100C, DFAR = 0xFFFF000C
ERROR(CMD256-TAD10-NAL18):
! Unable to display contents at location "S:0xFFFF000C"
! Failed to read 4 bytes from address S:0xFFFF000C
! Bus error on memory operation.

No SYSID registers could be found. Has a peripheral description file been supplied?

loadfile "C:\Users\Mohammed Lami\Development Studio Workspace\TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6\TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6.axf"
Target Message: Memory access caused precise abort.
Debug Precise Abort Registers : DFSR = 0x0000180C, DFAR = 0x80100FE0
ERROR(CMD16-TAD274-NAL18):
! Failed to load "TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6.axf"
! Failed to write 4,160 bytes to address S:0x80100000 while writing block of 4,096 bytes to address S:0x80100000
! Bus error on memory operation.
set debug-from *$ENTRYPOINT
start
WARNING(CMD399-CMD38-CMD722):
! Failed to start the target
! The string "$ENTRYPOINT" cannot be interpreted as a positive int
! Entry point not set
WARNING(CMD407): Trying the entry point instead
ERROR(CMD426): Cannot find symbol to start or entrypoint, the file or load commands may be used to set the entrypoint
wait
add-symbol-file "${workspace_loc:/TrustZone_Cortex-A9_AC6/normal.axf}" N:0
Semihosting server socket created at port 8000
Semihosting enabled automatically due to semihosting symbol detected in image 'normal.axf'
Target Message: Memory access caused precise abort.
Debug Precise Abort Registers : DFSR = 0x0000100C, DFAR = 0xFFFF0000
Target Message: Memory access caused precise abort.
Debug Precise Abort Registers : DFSR = 0x0000100C, DFAR = 0xFFFF0008
Target Message: Memory access caused precise abort.
Debug Precise Abort Registers : DFSR = 0x0000100C, DFAR = 0xFFFF000C
wait
continue
quit
Disconnected from running target Intel SoC FPGA - Cyclone V SoC (Single Core)

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Hi Stephen

Thanks for your response

When you said: "I tried your modified "startup_Cortex-A9_AC6" project and it works well on the FVP model (see screenshot).  But I hope that you've already tried that yourself, so I'm not sure what you are asking to check.  I don't have access to a Cyclone V SoC FPGA development kit or USB Blaster, so I can't test it on real hardware."

in my client, I can't debug the project in FVP mode without connecting the pc to SoC cyclone V kit via usb B-blaster interface. So I am wondering how did you run the project without connecting to the real hardware as you mentioned please?

Thank you