Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide

ID 683130
Date 8/15/2023
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Document Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Avalon® -ST Multi-Channel Shared Memory FIFO Core 3. Avalon® -ST Single-Clock and Dual-Clock FIFO Cores 4. Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface Core 5. SPI Core 6. SPI Agent/JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge Cores 7. Intel eSPI Agent Core 8. eSPI to LPC Bridge Core 9. Ethernet MDIO Core 10. Intel FPGA 16550 Compatible UART Core 11. UART Core 12. JTAG UART Core 13. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mailbox Core 14. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mutex Core 15. Intel FPGA Avalon® I2C (Host) Core 16. Intel FPGA I2C Agent to Avalon® -MM Host Bridge Core 17. Intel FPGA Avalon® Compact Flash Core 18. EPCS/EPCQA Serial Flash Controller Core 19. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller Core 20. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller II Core 21. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller Core 22. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller II Core 23. Interval Timer Core 24. Intel FPGA Avalon FIFO Memory Core 25. On-Chip Memory (RAM and ROM) Intel FPGA IP 26. On-Chip Memory II (RAM or ROM) Intel FPGA IP 27. Optrex 16207 LCD Controller Core 28. PIO Core 29. PLL Cores 30. DMA Controller Core 31. Modular Scatter-Gather DMA Core 32. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core 33. SDRAM Controller Core 34. Tri-State SDRAM Core 35. Video Sync Generator and Pixel Converter Cores 36. Intel FPGA Interrupt Latency Counter Core 37. Performance Counter Unit Core 38. Vectored Interrupt Controller Core 39. Avalon® -ST Data Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 40. Avalon® -ST Test Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 41. System ID Peripheral Core 42. Avalon® Packets to Transactions Converter Core 43. Avalon® -ST Multiplexer and Demultiplexer Cores 44. Avalon® -ST Bytes to Packets and Packets to Bytes Converter Cores 45. Avalon® -ST Delay Core 46. Avalon® -ST Round Robin Scheduler Core 47. Avalon® -ST Splitter Core 48. Avalon® -MM DDR Memory Half Rate Bridge Core 49. Intel FPGA GMII to RGMII Converter Core 50. Intel FPGA MII to RMII Converter Core 51. HPS GMII to TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS Bridge Core Intel® FPGA IP 52. Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter Core 53. Intel FPGA MSI to GIC Generator Core 54. Cache Coherency Translator Intel® FPGA IP 55. Lightweight UART Core

39.3.1. Functional Description

The data pattern checker core accepts data via an Avalon® -ST sink interface, checks it for correctness against the same predetermined pattern used by the data pattern generator core or other PRBS generators to produce the data, and reports any exceptions to the control interface.
Figure 145. Data Pattern Checker

You can configure the width of the output data signal to either 32-bit or 40-bit when instantiating the core. The chosen data width is not configurable during run time.

You can configure this core to output 8-bit or 10-bit wide symbols. By default, the core generates 4 symbols per beat, which outputs 32-bit or 40-bit wide data to the Avalon® -ST interfaces, respectively. The core’s data format endianness is the most significant symbol first within a beat and the most significant bit first within a symbol. For example, when you configure the output data to 32-bit, bit 31 is the first data bit, followed by bit 30, and so forth. This interface’s endianness may change in future versions of the core.

If you configure the width of the output data to 32-bit, the core inputs four 8-bit wide symbols per beat. To achieve an 8-bit and 16-bit data width, you can use the Avalon® -ST Data Format Adapter component to convert 4 symbols per beat to 1 or 2 symbols per beat.

Similarly, if you configure the width of the output data to 40-bit, the core inputs four 10-bit wide symbols per beat. The 10-bit and 20-bit input can be achieved by switching from 4 symbols per beat to 1 and 2 symbols per beat.

Control and Status Interface

The control and status interface is an Avalon® -MM agent that allows you to enable or disable the pattern checking. This interface also provides the run-time ability to choose the data pattern and read the status signals.

Input Interface

The input interface is a parallel Avalon® -ST interface. You can configure the data width at this interface to suit your requirements.

Supported Data Patterns

The following data patterns are supported in the following manner, per beat. When the core is disabled or in idle state, the default pattern generated on the data output is 0×5555 (for 32-bit data width) or 0×55555 (for 40-bit data width).

Table 411.  Supported Data Patterns (Binary Encoding)
Pattern 32-bit 40-bit
PRBS-7 PRBS in parallel PRBS in parallel
PRBS-15 PRBS in parallel PRBS in parallel
PRBS-23 PRBS in parallel PRBS in parallel
PRBS-31 PRBS in parallel PRBS in parallel
High Frequency 10101010 x 4 1010101010 x 4
Low Frequency 11110000 x 4 1111100000 x 4

Lock

The lock bit in the status register is asserted when 40 consecutive bits of correct data are received. The lock bit is deasserted and the receiver loses the lock when 40 consecutive bits of incorrect data are received.

Bit and Error Counters

The core has two 64-bit internal counters to keep track of the number of bits and number of error bits received. A snapshot has to be executed to update the NumBits and NumErrors registers with the current value from the internal counters.

A counter reset can be executed to reset both the registers and internal counters. If the counters are not being reset and the core is enabled, the internal counters continues the increment base on their current value.

The internal counters only start to increment after a lock has been acquired.