cdceprog

This is a very quick hack for programming a TI CDCE913/925 PLL chip with settings generated by TI's ClockPro software on a Linux system.

Usage

cdceprog.py settings.hex

The settings.hex file must be generated using the File->Save Intel Hex File menu entry of ClockPro. The script assumes that the PLL is connected to I2C bus 1 and uses its default address. An attempt to change the I2C address of the PLL will be overriden by the script because that was easier to implement. After programming, the settings are committed to the chip's EEPROM.

You do not need to specify if the file is meant for a CDCE913 or 925, the script will automatically determine this based on the size of the data found in the .hex file.

Raspberry Pi notes

This script was written to program a Dual Frequency Oscillator connected to a Raspberry Pi. It assumes that you do not have one of the extremely ancient Raspberry Pi boards that had I2C bus 0 on the GPIO header - if you do, change the line bus = smbus.SMBus(1) to bus = smbus.SMBus(0) in cdceprog.py.

You must be running Raspbian on your Pi and install the additional package python-smbus for the script to work. Since accessing the I2C bus directly usually requires root privileges, you will likely want to run the script with sudo, e.g. sudo ./cdceprog.py settings.hex.

To connect the DFO to the Raspberry Pi, check the nice overview of the GPIO connector here. The programming pins on the side of the DFO must be connected as follows:

• DFO SDA to RasPi pin 3
• DFO SCL to RasPi pin 5
• DFO GND to RasPi pin 6

Additionally, you need to decide how to power the DFO board while it is being programmed. If the board has already been installed in the target system, just turn on the target system.

If the DFO has not been installed in the target system yet, you can power it from the Raspberry Pi. To do this, you must first determine if your DFO is a 5V or 3.3V version. If it is a 5V version, connect the DFO pin +5V to pin 2 of the Raspberry Pi pin 2. If your DFO is a 3.3V version, connect the pin marked 3.3V to Raspberry Pi pin 1 instead. In either case, DO NOT make this connection if the DFO is powered from a target system!

License

2-clause BSD:

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