Axi interconnect pl301 book

Axi is targeted at high performance, high clock frequency system designs and includes a number of features that make it very suitable for high speed submicron interconnect. Ds768 sepember 21, 2010 product specification functional description figure 1 shows to topmost axi interconnect block diagram. The axi master sends the write address using the write address channel and then sends the write data using the write data channel. User logic connected to axilite masters and axilite slaves, and axilite master and slaves are connected via axilite interconnect.

All the blocks axilite master and axilite slave and axilite interconnect blocks shown in below figure are implemented in. Jaya swaroop assistant professor, department of ece, gist college, andhra pradesh, india abstract this paper mainly focuses on verifying the important features of advanced extensible interface axi. As additional axi masters slave interfaces on the interconnectcrossbar are added in crossbar maximum performance samd mode, additional id bits are added in order to route potentially reordered responses back to the. So far we were showing only axi memory mapped interfaces however for most of the dataflow applications axi stream interface is the main mechanism to connect processing units together. Hello, i have a working hdmi design that has changed little from the hdmi design in ubuntu on zedboard reference design. Basically this block connects multiple external peripherals, like a big switch with an arbiter that controls communication between these. The main focus areas of an interconnect verification environment include. The multilayer architecture provides the high bandwidth required in the system. Synopsys designware ip solutions for amba interconnect. What is the point of the 11 axi interconnect in adv7511 reference design. I am now drilling down to understand the video portion of the design. Amba axi dma controller designer user guide amba network interconnect nic301 implementation guide nic301 nic301 arm dii 0222 qos301 adr301 amba 3. Mar 21, 2014 this lesson defines the operation and role of an axi interconnect in an axi based embedded system. Difference between axi interconnect and axi smartc.

The axi protocol provides a single interface definition, for the interfaces. International journal of engineering research and general. Now it couldve chosen any of the other axi master interfaces, it chose scatter gather, it doesnt really matter because its just going to create either an axi interconnect, or an axi smartconnect for this and then the other two ports will be able to go through that as well. Do254 axi interconnect connects one or more axi memorymapped master devices to one or more memorymapped slave devices. This combination of ip provides support for other am ba interface protocols including ahblite and apb. Axi smartconnect is a dropin replacement for the axi interconnect v2 core. Amba axi dma controller designer user guide datasheet. Connecting user logic to axi interfaces of highperformance communication blocks in the smartfusion2 devices libero soc v11. User logic connected to axi lite masters and axi lite slaves, and axi lite master and slaves are connected via axi lite interconnect. This lesson shows the principles of axi stream interfaces, and talks about connecting axi stream and axi memory mapped devices together. Amba axi and ace protocol specification axi3, axi4, and. Synopsys testbenches help eliminate the task of writing compliance tests for todays complex protocols. Specifically back to the axi interconnect the documentation in ds768 was enough for us to figure out how to use a parameterized m masters, and s slaves.

It talks about addressing in designs based on these interconnects, the basic properties of these interconnects, hierarchical axi interconnects. Product specification introduction the xilinx logicore ip axi interconnect core connects one or more axi memorymapped master devices to one or more memorymapped slave devices. Supports all protocol transfer types, burst types, burst lengths and response types. It enhances soclevel security with features protecting the authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of code and data belonging to different stakeholders for example the chip maker, device maker, service provider and user. Security ip trustzone cryptocell312 security ip arm. Logicircuit applies the do254 lifecycle to this cots version. This issue supersedes the previous r0p0 version of the specification. International journal of engineering research and general science volume 2, issue 4, junejuly, 2014 issn 20912730 master 435.

The axi interface is the most widespread arm amba specification and provides an easy, generaluse connection to numerous devices within soc. May 23, 2017 axi full and axi lite interfaces axi lite interface axi lite interface has master components, interconnect, and slave components. Slave, interconnect and master support fine grain control of response per address or per transaction. The model integrates directly with arms soc designer virtual prototype. The axi interconnect configuration dialog provides an easy way to configure the axi interconnect parameters for all connected masters and slaves.

The amba axi protocol supports highperformance, highfrequency system designs. Primecell slow axi interconnect pl301 the configuration interface for this component is located at address 0x100e9000 on the system apb bus. See the primecell highperformance matrix pl301 technical reference manual for more information. Primecell axi configurable interconnect pl300 technical. The axis switch supports up to 16 masters to 16 slaves in a full or sparse crossbar configuration using the axi4stream signal tdest as the routing designator. I have an axi master and an axi slave connected to interconnect in my setup. The advanced micro controller bus architecture amba specification defines an onchip communications standard for building high performance soc designs. With amba axi based pr ocessors, the axi interconnect matches the cpu interface requirements. Programmable wait states or delay insertion on different channels. Amba network interconnect nic301 supplement to amba designer adr301 user guide arm dsu 0003 amba axi protocol v1. Amba network interconnect nic301 implementation guide. Interconnect has the ability to replicate masterslave inserted delays. Axi masters and slaves can be connected together using a structure called an interconnect block.

Tackling verification challenges with interconnect. Amba axi and ace protocol specification axi3, axi4, and axi4. Intended audience this specification is written to help hardware and software engineers who want to become familiar with the advanced microcontroller bus architecture amba and. The interconnect ip is intended for memorymapped transfers only. Implementation of interface between axi protocol and ddr3. Included at no additional charge with vivado and ise design suite the axi interconnect ip connects one or more axi memorymapped master devices to one or more memorymapped slave devices. It talks briefly about what is an axi interconnect. The synopsys designware ip solutions for amba interconnect protocolbased designs include a comprehensive set of synthesizable and verification ip and an automated method for subsystem assembly with the synopsys coreassembler tool. Between a master and the interconnect krithi b et al, ijcsit international journal of computer science and information technologies, vol. All the documents available online are pointing towards 2. The fully featured ip with support for axi 4 and other advanced peripheral features is provided as rtl source code.

You are strongly advised to read the axi entries in theglossary before reading this manual if you are not familiar with axi interfaces and related terminology when referring to the size of an interconnect, this document always refers first to the number of slave interfaces, followed by the number of master interfaces. Corelink nic400 network interconnect arm architecture. You are strongly advised to read the axi entries in theglossary before reading this manual if you are not familiar with axi interfaces and related terminology when referring to the size of an interconnect, this document always refers first to the number of slave interfaces, followed by. Pipelined interconnect for high system speeds and efficient frequency crossing. The axi interfaces conform to the amba axi version 4 specification from arm, including the axi4lite control register interface subset. These designs typically have one or more microcontrollers or microprocessors along with severa. Naveen kalyan student, department of ece, qis college of engineering, andhra pradesh, india k. The advanced extensible interface axi is a part of the advanced microcontroller bus architecture amba which is developed by arm advanced risc machines company. Quantum espresso computer codes for electronicstructure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. Robustverilog generic axi interconnect fabric in order to create the verilog design use the run.

Arm cryptocell312 is a comprehensive security solution for low power, low area designs. The possible configurations for th e corelink nic400 network interconnect can range from a. Apr 12, 2014 so far we were showing only axi memory mapped interfaces however for most of the dataflow applications axi stream interface is the main mechanism to connect processing units together. Tackling verification challenges with interconnect validation. As a result of this do254 process, the source code will be modified with the goal of achieving 100% code coverage, and the resulting code will be named do254 axi interconnect 1. Weve used many configurations with both parameters varying 15. This enables designers to perform accurate architectural analysis, performance optimization and presilicon firmware debug.

Zynq training session 02 what is an axi interconnect. Axi smartconnect is more tightly integrated into the vivado design environment to automatically configure and adapt to connected axi master and slave ip with minimal user intervention. Description the pl301 model is compiled directly from arms register transfer level rtl code and maintains 100% functional accuracy. For information about these components, see the primecell highperformance matrix pl301 technical reference manual. How does one learn amba bus protocols the best and easiest. International journal of engineering research and general science volume 2, issue 4, junejuly, 2014 issn 20912730 434. What is the point of the 11 axi interconnect in adv7511. It talks about addressing in designs based on these interconnects, the basic properties of these interconnects, hierarchical axi interconnects, rules for defining address maps in interconnects. Amba network interconnect nic301 technical reference manual.

Supports constrained randomization of protocol attributes. The axi s switch supports up to 16 masters to 16 slaves in a full or sparse crossbar configuration using the axi4stream signal tdest as the routing designator. Since these three areas of meta data are already available during the system design process, we can retrieve the data and easily generate the whole inter. One latency cycle per registerslice, with no loss in data throughput under all axi handshaking conditions. Predictive technology models website useful model files for future transistor and interconnect technologies.

The axi interconnect ip is described in xilinx axi interconnect ip, page 20. Axifull and axilite interfaces axi lite interface axi lite interface has master components, interconnect, and slave components. All the blocks axi lite master and axi lite slave and axi lite interconnect blocks shown in below figure are implemented in generic. This video shows how to extend the hps hard processor system with custom interconnect to be implemented in the soc. This lesson defines the operation and role of an axi interconnect in an axi based embedded system. There are five toplevel pages in this dialog that contain parameters arranged under tabs and group boxes based upon their functionality. Primecell highperformance matrix pl301 technical summary. Axifull and axilite interfaces logic fruit technologies. The axi interconnect core is intended for memorymapped transfers only. Facilitates timing closure by tradingoff frequency vs. Arm axi interconnect test suites writing tests to verify protocols is time consuming, challenging and requires deep protocol and methodology expertise. The id widths of axi transactions can be changed by the axi interconnect, usually for protocol conversion or area savings.