Hardware Reference Guide
SST-DN3-PCI-1 and SST-DN3-PCI-2
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Loading
Firmware
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C.1 Loading Firmware
Firmware modules for the card are supplied as .ss3 files, found on the software CD-ROM or on
the website at
http://www.mysst.com/
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If you are developing a driver for the card or producing a stand-alone embedded application,
the following section describes the basic sequence of steps to load a module into the channel’s
memory.
Note
These procedures should be repeated for each channel.
Note
For register descriptions, refer to Chapter 3,
Hardware Register Details
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C.1.1 Verify Card Presence
To verify the channel’s presence, follow these steps:
1. Start up your computer.
2. Following release of the backplane reset, wait up to 2 seconds.
3. Verify a FamilyID Register value of 0x40.
4. If FamilyID reads anything other than 0x40, the card is still in Reset or has not been
found. Refer to Section 4.4,
General Troubleshooting
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