Arm corelink axi4 to ahblite xhb400 bridge technical. The axi4stream protocol defines a single cha nnel for transmission of streaming data. Functional block diagram of the 2d graphics ip axi4 to combiner omnitek 2d graphics ip fpga cpu axi lite lut axi4 axi3 axi4 dma engine upscale to 3840 x 2160 spi control i2c axi3 cursor generator alpha mixer colourspace convertor bus formater mixer video timing generator register bus. Perhaps the difference is the formal verification software, symbiyosys as provided by symbioticeda. Wrap the gcd core with axi4lite interface handson embedded. The bridge functions as an ahb lite slave on the ahb bus and as an axi4 master on the axi4 bus. The logicore ip axi4lite ip interface ipif is a part of the xilinx family of arm amba axi control interface compatible products. Read this for a description of the signals that are used by the axi3 and axi4. This might include logic to translate between axi3, axi4, and axi4 lite protocols.
The core can be configured for optimized fpga resource usage and bram port utilization in this mode. This book is for amba 4 axi4, axi4 lite, and axi4 stream protocol assertions. When a core is optimized around a specific architecture, there shall be an additional parameter, arch, which will contain the name of the architecture used. This user interface consists of a 64bit or 128bit axi4 master interface. There is no reason why a basic gpio driver, as an example, needs two clocks for. Discuss the axi4 transactional modes of overlap and simultaneous operations. Axi4 lite to control registers omnitek fpga software interface framework for easy prototyping, with drivers for linux and. It provides a pointtopoint bidirectional interface between a user ip core and the xilinx logicore ip axi interco nnect core. Axi4 lite slave axi4 lite master axi4 slave burst xilinx axi reference guideug761. In addition to the rapidio physical layer functions, the core also includes management module that supports access to physical, transport, and logical layer csrs either through maintenance transactions, or through the axi4 lite local management interface lmi.
The axi4 lite interface module implements the basic functionality of the axi4 interface. The signals that flow downstream serve a similar purpose to those signals in the fourwire handshaking protocol. The axi4 lite chapter of the arm amba axi protocol v2. This specification is written for hardware and software engineers who want to. These signals are consistent across the five channels, and offer the user a simple yet powerful way to control all read and write transactions. Mentor verification ip altera edition amba axi4lite user. This signal indicates that the required read data is available and the read transfer can complete. Overview axi4 lite interface this module implements a 32bit axi4 lite slave interface for accessing axi iic registers. For additional details about the axi4 lite slave interface, see the logicore ip axi4 lite ipif product guide pg155 ref 2. You can optionally model the backpressure signal, ready, and map it to the axi4 stream video interface. The signals remain asserted until the axi slave accepts the address and control information and asserts the. Timing diagram of axi4 memory mapped and axi4 lite memory mapped i dont know the answer, but as a last resort.
Use the simplified axi4 master write protocol for a write transaction and the simplified axi4 master read protocol for a read transaction. The following figure shows the timing and fsm diagram of the axi4 lite read controller. The axi4 lite ipif signals are listed and described in table 25. The following figure shows the timing and fsm diagram of the axi4 lite write controller. In this video i explain the axi4 lite bus protocol by building it up from a simple ram interface. Amba 4 axi4, axi4 lite axi4 stream protocol assertions. Axi requires that all bus signals must be registered on the clock edge. The axi4 lite mode only supports a 32bit axi data bus width and single data beat transfers. Programmable solutions fpga video and vision 2d graphics. An axi4 lite interface to allow software control figure 1. The video timing detector detects the line standard of the. A fast unidirectional protocol for transfering data from master to slave.
This allows you to have a design that only utilizes the resources required by the system and operates at the best possible performance. Desiging a custom axilite slave peripheral version 1. Model design for axi4stream video interface generation. The axi4lite ip core can be configured as dual port to the block ram or configured to arbitrate to a single port of block ram at the ar and aw axi interfaces. Axilite tlast signal missing and tready behavioral soc. Axi4 lite interface axi4 lite interface module implements axi4 lite slave interface for accessing memory mapped timebase wdt registers.
This figure shows the timing diagram for the signals that you model at the dut input and output interfaces for an axi4 master write transaction. Resource utilization because the axi to apb bridge core is used with other designs in the fpga, the resource utilization and timing numbers reported in this section are estimates only. The toplevel block diagram for the axi timebase watchdog timer wdt is shown in figure 11. In this section, you will use chipscope to scope the axi4 lite read and write transaction to your myled custom ip core when it. Ahb lite to axi4 bridge block diagram is shown in figure 11 and described in. Axi4stream video ip and system design 6 ug934 october 30, 2019. Axi4lite is similar to axi4 with some exceptions, the most notable of which is that bursting, is not supported. Axi4 lite support as per the axi specification, the axi bram controller supports all requests from an axi4 lite master or axi4 lite interconnect. Timing diagrams sometimes show singlebit signals as high and low at the same time and they look similar to the bus change shown in key to timing diagram conventions. Rdata changes at t7 when rvalid is high and rready is. Amba axi and ace protocol specification axi3, axi4, and.
Mentor verification ip altera edition amba axi4lite user guide intel. To understand how axi4 lite works, nothing is better than scoping it while it is running. The rnpn identifier indicates the revision status of the product described in this book, where. Building a custom yet functional axilite slave zipcpu. Shaded bus and signal areas are undefined, so the bus or signal can assume any value within the. Axi4 lite interface this is a reduced version of the axi4 full. So an aw readyvalid handshake, and then the w readyvalid handshake are two transfers. Choose create a new axi4 peripheral, and click next. Arm ihi 0022d nonconfidential id102711 amba axi and ace protocol specification axi3, axi4, and axi4. Model design for axi4 stream video interface generation.
The active image area is the rectangle with a dashed line around it and the inactive pixels that surround it. Amba 4 axi4, axi4lite axi4stream protocol assertions. The axi4lite chapter of the arm amba axi protocol v2. Timing diagrams the figure named key to timing diagram conventions explains the components used in timing diagrams. You must not assume any timing information that is.
Amba v4 arm axi4 axi4 lite axi4 stream coreconnect ibm plb opb wishbone silicore corp. Axi4 lite is similar to axi4 with some exceptions, the most notable of which is that bursting, is not supported. Although the axi4 lite driver is automatically generated in the software interface model, the axi4 stream driver block cannot be automatically generated. Resource use and signal timing optimised through packaging the main processing blocks as single configurable osvp core axi4 stream interfaces for video. Video specific name should be short, descriptive signal names referring to axi4stream ports that are to be used in hdl code, timing diagrams, and test benches. The axi4 stream protocol defines a single cha nnel for transmission of streaming. Figure 7 shows an interconnect with multiple masters and slaves. A high performance memory mapped data and address interface. The figure named figure 1 explains the components used in timing diagrams.
Interfacex name mandates the toplevel ip port names. The use of different implementation strategiespblocks is required to meet timing at 8. Has a simpler interface than the full axi4 interface. This is the user guide for the soc designer axi4 protocol bundle. Creating example project with axi4 lite peripheral in. The following diagram shows a conceptual configuration for the interconnection of two axi4 stream ip blocks. Amba 4 axi4, axi4 lite, and axi4 stream protocol assertions user guide.
It provides a pointtopoint bidirectional interface between a user ip core and the xilinx logicore ip axi interconnect core. Product revision status the rnpn identifier indicates the revision status of the product described in this book, where. In normal axi, each validready handshake is a single transfer. In line 192216, we instantiate the gcd core and counter. Amba axi and ace protocol specification axi3, axi4, and axi4lite. The software and documentation were developed entirely at private expense and are commercial computer software and commercial computer software documentation within the meaning of the applicable acquisition regulations. Additionally, interconnects can perform buswidth conversion, use data fifos, contain register slices to break timing paths, and even convert between two different clock domains. Xilinx vivado helps in the creation of custom ip with axi4 interfaces. Timing diagram of axi4 memory mapped and axi4 lite memory mapped hi, in this document in section axi adoption summary page 73. Because of the formal tool, and more specifically because of the formal axi property file, i was able to build this design with confidenceeven though i couldnt figure out how to build a proper fsm state transition diagram for it. You must not assume any timing information that is not explicit in the diagrams. Last year, we discussed how to verify an axilite slave peripheral. This repository is for storing opensource verilog modules that use the axi4, axi4 lite, and axi4 stream interfaces. Getting started with axi4stream interface in zynq workflow.
Interfacing axi ip in fpga vis fpga module flexrio. Add axi lite clock domain crossing module, testbench, and. Axi4lite readwrite transaction at runtime real digital. This signal indicates the status of the read transfer. This protocol bundle contains soc designer components, probes, and the transaction port interfaces for the arm axi4 protocol includes support for amba4 axi. Amba 4 axi4, axi4lite, and axi4stream protocol assertions.
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