MNT ZZ9000 R-4 Quick Start Manual

MNT ZZ9000 R-4 Quickstart Manual
Dear MNT Customer,
Thank you for purchasing the MNT ZZ9000 Graphics Coprocessor Card (with
Ethernet and USB Storage) for Commodore Amiga computers. This product was
made possible by your support.
Package Contents
• MNT ZZ9000 Zorro card (1) with mounting bracket and
128MB MicroSD card (4) containing ZZ9000OS
• MNT ZZ9000CX ECS/AGA Video Slot adapter (2)
• Video Slot ribbon cable for connecting both cards (3)
• This manual
Warranty
MNT Research covers the warranty to the extent required by law for the unmodified
product. ZZ9000 is based on a reconfigurable Xilinx ZYNQ Z-7020 FPGA that can be
updated by the user and reprogrammed to enable new functionality. Warranty does
not cover user supplied firmware or any modifications made to the card, nor does it
cover any damage by inserting it into a computer or other user supplied device. Use
at your own risk!
Declaration of Conformity
MNT ZZ9000 may only be operated in a shielding steel enclosure.
MNT Research assures that the included product complies with the
requirements of the following European Directives and DIN standards:
EMC Directive 2014/30/EU, Low Voltage Directive 2014/35/EU
RoHS Directive 2011/65/EU
DIN EN 55022:2011-12
DIN EN 55024:2016-05
DIN EN 61000-6-1:2007
DIN EN 61000-6-3:2007/A1:2011/AC:2012
DIN EN 61000-3-2:2014
DIN EN 61000-3-3:2013
Lukas F. Hartmann, Managing Director
MNT Research GmbH
Running ARM Software
ZZ9000 has two 32-bit ARM Cortex-A9 processor cores that run at 666 MHz. The
system has access to 1 GB of DDR3 memory in total. A part of this memory is di‐
rectly shared with the Amiga's chipset and 68000 familiy processor via the Zorro
Bus. The Amiga RTG screens also occupy the same memory space, so both ARM
and Amiga can draw pixels into graphics memory or read from it.
Normally, a mini operating system called ZZ9000OS is running on ARM Core 1, and
ARM Core 2 is idle. ZZ9000OS has the following functions:
• Polls the Zorro bus in the FPGA fabric for events (writes, reads, or Amiga reset)
• Receives and transmits Ethernet packages
• Controls the DVI transmitter
• Controls the USB port
• Executes accelerated RTG drawing functions like fills, scrolling, text, patterns
You can run custom code on ARM Core 2 by loading it into a place in shared memory
and asking ZZ9000OS to jump into the code. On the ZZ9000 website (https://
mntre.com/zz9000) you can download example progams and a simple SDK for
writing your own ARMv7 applications, as well as the sources for ZZ9000OS.
Updating FPGA Firmware and ZZ9000OS
Development of ZZ9000 has taken almost two years, and it was our priority to get
the hardware into your hands as soon as possible while delivering a good feature set
to begin with. But ZZ9000 is highly extensible and open source. In addition to us de‐
livering new features for the card, we believe that the hackers and makers among
you will come up with fantastic new software and ideas to run on ZZ9000.
The ZYNQ on ZZ9000 boots from the inserted MicroSD card. This card needs to be
MBR partitioned and FAT32 formatted. The system looks for a file called BOOT.bin
which contains the ZYNQ FSBL (first stage boot loader) that in turn loads the FPGA
image and ZZ9000OS (in ELF format). To update the card, you simply have to re‐
place the BOOT.bin file with a new one.
ARM Address
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MNT Research GmbH
Fehlerstr. 8, 12161 Berlin
WEEE: DE 33315564
https://mntre.com
Get updates and source code at:
https://mntre.com/zz9000
Need help? Write to
zz9000@mntre.com
Join our IRC channel #mnt-amiga on
irc.libera.chat
Area
DDR3 Start, ZZ9000OS Code
ZZ9000 ARM Registers
ZZ9000 FPGA Registers
Ethernet and USB Buffers / Scratch Space
Framebuffer Memory Start
Zorro 2 Accessible Space End (4 MB)
ARM Application and General Purpose Shared
Space Start
Zorro 3 Accessible Space End (256 MB)
DDR3 End (1 GB)
Currently unreachable on Zorro 2 machines,
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update coming
Hardware Installation
1. Connect the Video Slot ribbon cable by inserting one end into the 34 pin socket
of ZZ9000 and the other end into the 34 pin socket of ZZ9000CX.
2. Insert ZZ9000 into any of the Zorro slots of your Amiga 2000/3000/4000.
3. Insert ZZ9000CX into the Video Slot of your Amiga. In Amiga 2000, the Video
Slot is on the right side of the power supply. In Amiga 3000, the Video Slot is located
next to the top Zorro slot on the daugtherboard. In Amiga 4000, the Video Slot is
next to the bottom Zorro slot on the daughterboard.
There are two distinct firmware (BOOT.bin) files for Zorro II and Zorro III support.
ZZ9000 ships with the firmware that you selected when ordering. To change it, just
download a new firmware file and copy it to the MicroSD card inserted in ZZ9000.
Software Installation
1. Install the RTG (ReTargetable Graphics) system. There are two options:
• Picasso96 on Aminet: http://aminet.net/package/driver/video/Picasso96
• P96 3.x by Individual Computers (recommended). To purchase a license, first
register an account in their shop. More information: http://wiki.icomp.de/wiki/P96
When installing Picasso96/P96, select only the Altais card. The ZZ9000 Installer will
copy it to create its own Devs:Monitors/ZZ9000 driver file.
2. ZZ9000 implements a SANA-II compatible network card that you can use to go
online with TCP/IP stacks such as Miami or Roadshow. Make sure you have such a
TCP/IP stack installed before installing the network driver.
3. Double click "Install ZZ9000" from the ZZ9000 Install package available from our
website or on floppy disk from our online shop. The ZZ9000 Installer will guide you
through all steps necessary to set up the graphics, network and AHI/MHI (requires
separate MNT ZZ9000AX module) functions.
4. After rebooting, you will be able to select high resolution 8/16/32 bit screen
modes using ZZ9000's display engine. Native Amiga chipset screen modes will be
automatically scan-doubled and flicker-fixed via ZZ9000CX.
5. You can use a USB stick to exchange files between your Amiga and other
computers via zzusb.device that is automatically loaded as part of the firmware.
The USB stick needs to be formatted with the Amiga FFS filesystem and RDB
partition table for this to work. The first partition should be below 4GB in size. You
can use HDInstTools (with zzusb.device set up as the device in its Icon Information)
to create the partition and format it with Amiga tools, or use an emulator such as
WinUAE. On Linux, you can mount Amiga partitions from the stick by passing the
option -t affs to the regular mount command.
Please note that during ethernet driver installation, you can choose any MAC
address you like.
Jumpers and Headers
J1: JTAG. You can debug and reprogram
both FPGA and ARM through JTAG via a
Xilinx Platform Cable or similar and using
free Xilinx Vivado Webpack software.
J4: Interrupt select. Connects either
Amiga interrupt INT2 or INT6 to the FPGA.
Leave the jumper on INT6 to use
Ethernet.
J13: Boot select. 2+4 = Boot from
MicroSD card (if you have a black ZYNQ
module, also 1+3 jumper needs to be set).
Don't remove the J13 jumpers! The I/O
pins of the FPGA won't be configured
without a correct boot image and chips
on the card could overheat while the card
is plugged into your Amiga.
J12: UART. Connect a USB-to-UART
cable to RX, TX and GND pins (115200
baud) to see ZZ9000's debug output.
J6: Audio. Breaks out the the raw and
filtered audio signals of the video slot for
use in future sound expansions.
J10: FPGA Expansion. 10 additional
unused FPGA inputs/outputs for later use.
J5: MIO. Breaks out 8 unused ZYNQ MIO
pins. Reserved for later use, not shown
here.
J7: Digital Audio Input for the video
encoder chip. Reserved for later use, not
shown here. Introduced in R-2.