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4.4.7.2. DCFIFO Signals
Signal | Direction | Required | Description |
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w_clk | Input | Yes | FIFO Write Clock. |
w_aclr | Input | No | Active-high reset signal that feeds the asynchronous clear pins of w_clk domain flip-flops. This reset is not synchronized within the IP, and hence, user logic should ensure it is de-asserted synchronously to w_clk whenever appropriate. This signal only takes effect if USE_ACLR_PORT is enabled.
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w_sclr | Input | No | Active-high reset signal that feeds the synchronous clear pins of w_clk domain flip-flops. Reset sequence requirements must be followed.
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r_clk | Input | Yes | FIFO Read Clock. |
r_aclr | Input | No | Active-high reset signal that feeds the asynchronous clear pins of r_clk domain flip-flops. This reset is not synchronized within the IP, and hence, user logic should ensure it is de-asserted synchronously to r_clk whenever appropriate. In addition, reset sequence requirements must be followed. This signal only takes effect if USE_ACLR_PORT is enabled.
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r_sclr | Input | No | Active-high reset signal that feeds the synchronous clear pins of r_clk domain flip-flops. Reset sequence requirements must be followed.
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w_req | Input | Yes | FIFO write request. This signal is expected to be inactive during reset.
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w_data[FIFO_WIDTH-1:0] | Input | Yes | FIFO Write Data. This bus presents the data to be stored into the FIFO when there is a write request. The value is taken by the FIFO only when w_req is active, and the FIFO is not full (i.e. w_full = 1). |
w_full | Output | No | FIFO Write Full. This signal indicates whether the space remained in the FIFO is about to run-out. When this signal asserts, further w_req is ignored.
Note: Due to internal pipeline stages to improve Fmax, the actual usable space is a few entries less than that being configured to prevent data loss.
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r_req | Input | Yes | FIFO Read Request / Read Ready. To achieve the highest possible Fmax, the use model of this signal is slightly different from the normal zero read to data ready latency FIFO. User application is expected to assert this signal at the appropriate time to indicate its readiness to take in data some clock cycles (L) from now. At L clock later, r_valid shall be asserted if there is data available, or de-asserted if there is no data available at r_data port. This is analogous to the Avalon® streaming non-zero read latency valid/ready interface semantics and implies enough buffer spaces are allocated in the downstream user application to consume in-flight data.
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r_data[FIFO_WIDTH-1:0] | Output | Yes | FIFO Read Data. This bus presents the data corresponds to each read request, which have taken place some clock cycles earlier. The read data is only valid in the clock cycle when r_valid asserts. |
r_empty | Output | No | FIFO Read Empty. Indicate whether there is still data word remained in the FIFO. This effectively is a pipelined version of r_usedw == 0. This signal may be used by user application for monitoring purpose, or to initiate a series of read requests.
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r_valid | Output | No | FIFO Read Data Valid. Indicate whether the data at r_data output port is valid. Each r_valid assertion correspond to a previous read request/ready. Due to read request to data ready latency introduced by internal pipeline stages, this signal can still be asserted for several clocks after r_empty asserts. When r_valid asserts, data must be taken by the user application; else, it will be lost. The r_valid and r_req interface is analogous to the Avalon® streaming valid and ready semantics with non-zero read latency.
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w_ready | Output | Yes | Active-low write-protect signal to gate data on the write port, before the delayed w_full asserts. |