The interrupt controller from Microblaze based projects requires that
all its inputs have attributes which define the sensitivity of the
interrupt line. Other case it defaults to EDGE_RISING which is not the
case for DMAC, leading to incorrect interrupt reporting and handling in
case of such projects.
FPGAs support different widths for the read and write port of the block
SRAM cells. The DMAC can make use of this feature when the source and
destination interface have a different width to up-size/down-size the data
bus.
Using memory cells with asymmetric port width consumes the same amount of
SRAM cells, but allows to bypass the re-size blocks inside the DMAC that
are otherwise used for up- and down-sizing. This reduces overall resource
usage and can improve timing.
If the ratio between the destination and source port is too larger to be
handled by SRAM alone the SRAM block will be configured to do partial up-
or down-sizing and a resize block will be inserted to take care of the
remaining up-/down-sizing. E.g. if a 256-bit interface is connected to a
32-bit interface the SRAM will be used to do an initial resizing of 256 bit
to 64 bit and a resize block will be used to do the remaining resizing from
64 bit to 32 bit.
Currently this feature is disabled for Intel FPGAs since Quartus does not
properly infer a block RAM with different read and write port widths from
the current ad_asym_mem module. Once that has been resolved support for
asymmetric memories can also be enabled in the DMAC.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Length of partial transfers are stored in a queue for SW reads.
The presence of partial transfer is indicated by a status bit.
The reporting can be enabled by a control bit.
The progress of any transfer can be followed by a debug register.
Vivado recognises .h files as C header files,
the expected extension for Verilog Header is .vh
This causes issues in simulating block designs since these files
won't be exported for the simulation even if they are
part of the simulation fileset.
When creating a block design targeted for simulation, in the testbench
it is useful to know the parameters of the sub components (e.g DMAC)
Xilinx's way to pass the parameters to the testbench in case of it's AXI
verification IP is through package files. We will do the same for the DMAC.
The package file can be generated from template files (ttcl).
These will be added only to the simulation file set of the project and
won't affect synthesis.
This change adds a diagnostic interface to the DMAC core.
The interface exposes internal information about the core,
information which can't be exposed through AXI registers
due the latency and update rate.
Such information is the fullness of the internal buffer.
For this is exposed in bursts and is driven from the destination
clock domain, as this is reflected in its name.
The signal has a fixed size and is dimensioned by
taking in account the supported maximum number of bursts of 128.
Currently the DMAC uses a simple FIFO as the store-and-forward buffer. The
FIFO handshaking is beat based whereas the remainder of the DMAC is burst
based. This means that additional control signals have to be combined with
the FIFO handshaking signal to generate the external handshaking signals.
Re-work the store-and-forward buffer to utilize a BRAM that is subdivided
into N segments. Where N is the maximum number of bursts that can be stored
in the buffer and each segment has the size of the maximum burst length.
Each segment stores the data associated with one burst and even when the
burst is shorter than the maximum burst length the next burst will be
stored in the next segment.
The new store-and-forward buffer takes care of generating all the
handshaking signals. This means handshaking is generated in a central place
and does not have to be combined from multiple data-paths simplifying the
overall logic.
The new store-and-forward buffer also takes care of data width up- and
down-sizing in case that the source and sink modules have a different data
width. This tighter integration will allow future enhancements like using
asymmetric memory.
This re-work lays the foundation of future enhancements to the DMA like
support for un-aligned transfers and early transfer abort which would have
been much more difficult to implement with the previous architecture.
In addition it significantly reduces the resource utilization of the
store-and-forward buffer and allows for better timing due to reduced
combinatorial path lengths.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
For the memory-mapped AXI read interface the slave asserts rlast for the
last beat in a burst.
This means we don't have to count the number of beats to know when the
burst is completed but instead can use rlast. This slightly reduces the
amount of resources needed for the MM-AXI source module and given that the
beat_counter is often the bottleneck timing wise this should also improve
the timing.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
The DMAC allows a transfer to be aborted. When a transfer is aborted the
DMAC shuts down as fast as possible while still completing any pending
transactions as required by the protocol specifications of the port. E.g.
for AXI-MM this means to complete all outstanding bursts.
Once the DMAC has entered an idle state a special synchronization signal is
send to all modules. This synchronization signal instructs them to flush
the pipeline and remove any stale data and metadata associated with the
aborted transfer. Once all data has been flushed the DMAC enters the
shutdown state and is ready for the next transfer.
In addition each module has a reset that resets the modules state and is
used at system startup to bring them into a consistent state.
Re-work the shutdown process to instead of flushing the pipeline re-use the
startup reset signal also for shutdown.
To manage the reset signal generation introduce the reset manager module.
It contains a state machine that will assert the reset signals in the
correct order and for the appropriate duration in case of a transfer
shutdown.
The reset signal is asserted in all domains until it has been asserted for
at least 4 clock cycles in the slowest domain. This ensures that the reset
signal is not de-asserted in the faster domains before the slower domains
have had a chance to process the reset signal.
In addition the reset signal is de-asserted in the opposite direction of
the data flow. This ensures that the data sink is ready to receive data
before the data source can start sending data. This simplifies the internal
handshaking.
This approach has multiple advantages.
* Issuing a reset and removing all state takes less time than
explicitly flushing one sample per clock cycle at a time.
* It simplifies the logic in the faster clock domains at the expense of
more complicated logic in the slower control clock domain. This allows
for higher fMax on the data paths.
* Less signals to synchronize from the control domain to the data domains
The implementation of the pause mode has also slightly changed. Pause is
now a simple disable of the data domains. When the transfer is resumed
after a pause the data domains are re-enabled and continue at their
previous state.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Move the transfer logic, including the 2d module, into its own sub-module.
This allows testing of the full transfer logic independently of the
register map logic.
The top-level module now only instantiates the register map and transfer
module, but does not have any logic on its own.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
The label for the store-and-forward memory size configuration option at the
moment is just "FIFO Size" and while the store-and-forward memory uses a
FIFO that is just a implementation detail.
Change the label to "Store-and-Forward Memory Size". This is more
descriptive as it references the function not the implementation.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
For correct operation the store-and-forward memory size must be a
power-of-two in the range of 2 to 32.
This is simple enough so we can list all values and let the IP Integrator
and QSYS perform proper validation of the parameter.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Split the register map code into a separate sub-module instead of having it
as part of the top-level axi_dmac.v file.
This makes it easier to component test the register map behavior
independently from the DMA transfer logic.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Exposed AXI3 interface on the Intel version of the IP for UI and feature consistency.
Some of the signals that are defined as optional in the AMBA standard
are marked as mandatory in Qsys in case of AXI3. Because of this such signals
were added to the interface of the DMAC and driven with default values.
For Xilinx in order to keep existing behavior the newly added signals
are hidden from the interface.
New parameters are added to define the width of the AXI transaction IDs;
these are hidden from the UI; We can add them to the UI if the fixed size
of the IDs will cause port incompatibility issues.
The include files are currently only implicitly added to the component file
list. Do it explicitly as this will make sure that they show up in the
generated Makefile dependency list.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Bundle the TLAST signal in with the other AXIS slave signals to enable
easier connection between AXIS devices that use TLAST
Signed-off-by: Matt Fornero <matt.fornero@mathworks.com>
Add some limit TLAST support for the streaming AXI source interface. An
asserted TLAST signal marks the end of a packet and the following data beat
is the first beat for the next packet.
Currently the DMAC does not support for completing a transfer before all
requested bytes have been transferred. So the way this limited TLAST
support is implemented is by filling the remainder of the buffer with 0x00.
While the DMAC is busy filling the buffer with zeros back-pressure is
asserted on the external streaming AXI interface by keeping TREADY
de-asserted.
The end of a buffer is marked by a transfer that has the last bit set in
the FLAGS control register.
In the future we might add support for transfer completion before all
requested bytes have been transferred.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Move the CDC helper modules to a dedicated helper modules. This makes it
possible to reference them without having to use file paths that go outside
of the referencing project's directory.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Currently the AXI address width of the DMA is always 32-bit. But not all
address spaces are so large that they require 32-bit to address all memory.
Extract the size of the address space that the DMA is connected too and
configure reduce the address size to the minimum required to address the
full address space.
This slightly reduces utilization.
If no mapped address space can be found the default of 32 bits is used for
the address.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
The debug registers are useful during development but are rarely used in a
production design. Add a option that allows to disable them, this reduces
the resource utilization of the DMAC.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
It seems that in the latest version a constant of "0" is no longer a valid
enablement dependency and "false" has be used instead.
Not setting the enablement dependency correctly results in the AXI port to
be assumed to be read-write rather than just read or write. This will
generate unnecessary logic for example in interconnects to which the DMA
controller is connected.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Add a human readable name and descriptor for the AXI DMAC core.This string
will appear in various places e.g. like the IP catalog. This is a purely
cosmetic change.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
This patch is a complementary fix of 8b8c37 patch. And fix
all the 'infer interface' issues.
The adi_ip_infer_interfaces process was renamed to
adi_ip_infer_streaming_interfaces. Now the process just do
what its name suggest.
Affected cores were axi_dmac, axi_spdif_rx, axi_spdif_tx, axi_i2s_adi
and axi_usb_fx3. All these cores scripts were updated.
Conflicts:
library/axi_ad9361/axi_ad9361_ip.tcl
library/axi_dmac/Makefile
library/axi_dmac/axi_dmac_constr.ttcl
library/axi_dmac/axi_dmac_ip.tcl
library/common/ad_tdd_control.v
projects/daq2/common/daq2_bd.tcl
projects/fmcjesdadc1/common/fmcjesdadc1_bd.tcl
projects/fmcomms2/zc706pr/system_project.tcl
projects/fmcomms2/zc706pr/system_top.v
projects/usdrx1/common/usdrx1_bd.tcl
This merge was made, to recover any forgotten fixes from master,
before creating the new release branch. All conflicts were reviewed
and resolved.
Group the axi_dmac parameters by function and provide a human readable name
for the IPI GUI. This makes it easier to understand what parameter does
what when using the IPI GUI to configure the core.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Add validation values for the different configuration parameters. This
enables the tools to check whether the configured value is valid and avoids
accidental misconfiguration.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
The axi_dmac core does not issue narrow AXI bursts. Indicate this by
setting the SUPPORTS_NARROW_BURST property to 0 on both AXI master
interfaces.
This allows connected slaves to know that they will not receive narrow
bursts, which allows them to disable support for it.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Add support for querying the clock domains of the clock pins for the
axi_dmac controller. This allows the core to automatically figure out
whether its different parts run in different clock domains or not and setup
the configuration parameters accordingly.
Being able to auto-detect those configuration parameters makes the core
easier to use and also avoids accidental misconfiguration.
It is still possible to automatically overwrite the configuration
parameters by hand if necessary.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
When having multiple DMA cores sharing the same constraint file Vivado
seems to apply the constraints from the first core to all the other cores
when re-running synthesis and implementation from within the Vivado GUI.
This causes wrong timing constraints if the DMA cores have different
configurations. To avoid this issue use a TTCL template that generates a
custom constraint file for each DMA core instance.
This also allows us to drop the asynchronous clock detection hack from the
constraint file and move it to the template and only generate the CDC
constraints if the clock domains are asynchronous.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
When having multiple DMA cores sharing the same constraint file Vivado
seems to apply the constraints from the first core to all the other cores
when re-running synthesis and implementation from within the Vivado GUI.
This causes wrong timing constraints if the DMA cores have different
configurations. To avoid this issue use a TTCL template that generates a
custom constraint file for each DMA core instance.
This also allows us to drop the asynchronous clock detection hack from the
constraint file and move it to the template and only generate the CDC
constraints if the clock domains are asynchronous.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
The memory mapped AXI interfaces for the AXI-DMAC are uni-directional.
Which means they are either write-only or read-only. Unfortunately the
Altera tools can't handle this, so we had to add dummy signals for the
other direction.
The Xilinx tools on the other hand handle uni-directional AXI interfaces
and in fact IPI can do a better job and use less resources when creating
the AXI interconnects when it knows that the interface is uni-directional.
So always disable the dummy ports for the IPI package.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
The memory mapped AXI interfaces for the AXI-DMAC are uni-directional.
Which means they are either write-only or read-only. Unfortunately the
Altera tools can't handle this, so we had to add dummy signals for the
other direction.
The Xilinx tools on the other hand handle uni-directional AXI interfaces
and in fact IPI can do a better job and use less resources when creating
the AXI interconnects when it knows that the interface is uni-directional.
So always disable the dummy ports for the IPI package.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
The memory mapped AXI interfaces for the AXI-DMAC are uni-directional.
Which means they are either write-only or read-only. Unfortunately the
Altera tools can't handle this, so we had to add dummy signals for the
other direction.
The Xilinx tools on the other hand handle uni-directional AXI interfaces
and in fact IPI can do a better job and use less resources when creating
the AXI interconnects when it knows that the interface is uni-directional.
So always disable the dummy ports for the IPI package.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Add .gitattributes file which sets up the eol encoding handling. This will
make sure that we get a uniform eol encoding across different operating
systems.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Add .gitattributes file which sets up the eol encoding handling. This will
make sure that we get a uniform eol encoding across different operating
systems.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Instead of just marking all clock domains as asynchronous set the
appropriate constraints for each CDC path.
For single-bit synchronizers use set_false_path to not constraint the path
at at all.
For multi-bit synchronizers as used for gray counters use set_max_delay with
the source clock period domain to make sure that the signal skew will not
exceed one clock period. Otherwise one bit might overtake another and the
synchronizer no longer works correctly.
For multi-bit synchronizers implemented with hold registers use
set_max_delay with the target clock period to make sure that the skew does
not get to large, otherwise we might violate setup and hold time.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Bring back the AXIS FIFO as a separate module instead of embedding it into
the DMAC module. This makes it possible to use it in other modules outside
of the DMAC.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Move the axi_repack block to its own module. This allows it to use it
outside of the DMA controller.
Also rename it to util_axis_resize to better reflect its function.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Modify the adi_add_bus() function to take the full vlnv strings instead of just the bus type.
This makes the function more flexible and e.g. allows to handle buses from other vendors.
Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>
Laszlo Nagy
Istvan Csomortani
Lars-Peter Clausen
Matt Fornero
Shrutika Redkar