Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon® Memory-Mapped (Avalon-MM) DMA Interface for PCI Express* Solutions User Guide

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Document Table of Contents x
1. Datasheet 2. Getting Started with the Avalon-MM DMA 3. Parameter Settings 4. Physical Layout 5. IP Core Interfaces 6. Registers 7. Reset and Clocks 8. Error Handling 9. PCI Express Protocol Stack 10. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon-MM DMA for PCI Express 11. Design Implementation A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats B. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon-MM DMA Interface for PCIe Solutions User Guide Archive C. Document Revision History
1. Datasheet x
1.1. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon-MM DMA Interface for PCIe* Datasheet 1.2. Features 1.3. Comparison of Avalon-ST, Avalon-MM and Avalon-MM with DMA Interfaces 1.4. Release Information 1.5. Device Family Support 1.6. Design Examples 1.7. IP Core Verification 1.8. Resource Utilization 1.9. Recommended Speed Grades 1.10. Creating a Design for PCI Express
1.7. IP Core Verification x
1.7.1. Compatibility Testing Environment
2. Getting Started with the Avalon-MM DMA x
2.1. Understanding the Avalon-MM DMA Ports 2.2. Generating the Testbench 2.3. Simulating the Example Design in ModelSim* 2.4. Running a Gate-Level Simulation 2.5. Generating Synthesis Files 2.6. Compiling the Design 2.7. Creating a Quartus® Prime Project
2.2. Generating the Testbench x
2.2.1. Understanding the Simulation Generated Files 2.2.2. Understanding Simulation Log File Generation
3. Parameter Settings x
3.1. Parameters 3.2. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon-MM Settings 3.3. Base Address Register (BAR) Settings 3.4. Device Identification Registers 3.5. PCI Express and PCI Capabilities Parameters 3.6. Configuration, Debug, and Extension Options 3.7. PHY Characteristics 3.8. Example Designs
3.1. Parameters x
3.1.1. RX Buffer Allocation Selections Available by Interface Type
3.5. PCI Express and PCI Capabilities Parameters x
3.5.1. Device Capabilities 3.5.2. Error Reporting 3.5.3. Link Capabilities 3.5.4. MSI and MSI-X Capabilities 3.5.5. Slot Capabilities 3.5.6. Power Management 3.5.7. Vendor Specific Extended Capability (VSEC)
4. Physical Layout x
4.1. Hard IP Block Placement In Cyclone® 10 GX Devices 4.2. Hard IP Block Placement In Arria® 10 Devices 4.3. Channel and Pin Placement for the Gen1, Gen2, and Gen3 Data Rates 4.4. Channel Placement and fPLL and ATX PLL Usage for the Gen3 Data Rate 4.5. PCI Express Gen3 Bank Usage Restrictions
5. IP Core Interfaces x
5.1. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX DMA Avalon-MM DMA Interface to the Application Layer 5.2. Clock Signals 5.3. Reset, Status, and Link Training Signals 5.4. MSI Interrupts for Endpoints 5.5. Hard IP Reconfiguration Interface 5.6. Physical Layer Interface Signals 5.7. Test Signals 5.8. Arria® 10 Development Kit Conduit Interface
5.1. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX DMA Avalon-MM DMA Interface to the Application Layer x
5.1.1. Avalon-MM DMA Interfaces when Descriptor Controller Is Internally Instantiated 5.1.2. Read Data Mover 5.1.3. Write DMA Avalon-MM Master Port 5.1.4. RX Master Module 5.1.5. Non-Bursing Slave Module 5.1.6. 32-Bit Control Register Access (CRA) Slave Signals 5.1.7. Avalon-ST Descriptor Control Interface when Instantiated Separately 5.1.8. Descriptor Controller Interfaces when Instantiated Internally
5.1.7. Avalon-ST Descriptor Control Interface when Instantiated Separately x
5.1.7.1. Avalon-ST Descriptor Status Interface 5.1.7.2. Avalon® -ST Descriptor Status Sources
5.1.8. Descriptor Controller Interfaces when Instantiated Internally x
5.1.8.1. Read Descriptor Controller Avalon-MM Master interface 5.1.8.2. Write Descriptor Controller Avalon-MM Master Interface 5.1.8.3. Read Descriptor Table Avalon-MM Slave Interface 5.1.8.4. Write Descriptor Table Avalon-MM Slave Interface
5.6. Physical Layer Interface Signals x
5.6.1. Serial Data Signals 5.6.2. PIPE Interface Signals
6. Registers x
6.1. Correspondence between Configuration Space Registers and the PCIe Specification 6.2. Type 0 Configuration Space Registers 6.3. Type 1 Configuration Space Registers 6.4. PCI Express Capability Structures 6.5. Intel-Defined VSEC Registers 6.6. Advanced Error Reporting Capability 6.7. DMA Descriptor Controller Registers 6.8. Control Register Access (CRA) Avalon-MM Slave Port
6.5. Intel-Defined VSEC Registers x
6.5.1. CvP Registers
6.6. Advanced Error Reporting Capability x
6.6.1. Uncorrectable Internal Error Mask Register 6.6.2. Uncorrectable Internal Error Status Register 6.6.3. Correctable Internal Error Mask Register 6.6.4. Correctable Internal Error Status Register
6.7. DMA Descriptor Controller Registers x
6.7.1. Read DMA Descriptor Controller Registers 6.7.2. Write DMA Descriptor Controller Registers 6.7.3. Read DMA and Write DMA Descriptor Format 6.7.4. Read DMA Example 6.7.5. Software Program for Simultaneous Read and Write DMA
7. Reset and Clocks x
7.1. Reset Sequence for Hard IP for PCI Express IP Core and Application Layer 7.2. Clocks
7.2. Clocks x
7.2.1. Clock Domains 7.2.2. Clock Summary
7.2.1. Clock Domains x
7.2.1.1. coreclkout_hip 7.2.1.2. pld_clk
8. Error Handling x
8.1. Physical Layer Errors 8.2. Data Link Layer Errors 8.3. Transaction Layer Errors 8.4. Error Reporting and Data Poisoning 8.5. Uncorrectable and Correctable Error Status Bits
9. PCI Express Protocol Stack x
9.1. Top-Level Interfaces 9.2. Data Link Layer 9.3. Physical Layer
9.1. Top-Level Interfaces x
9.1.1. Avalon-MM DMA Interface 9.1.2. Clocks and Reset 9.1.3. Interrupts 9.1.4. PIPE
10. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon-MM DMA for PCI Express x
10.1. Understanding the Internal DMA Descriptor Controller 10.2. Understanding the External DMA Descriptor Controller
11. Design Implementation x
11.1. Making Pin Assignments to Assign I/O Standard to Serial Data Pins 11.2. Recommended Reset Sequence to Avoid Link Training Issues 11.3. SDC Timing Constraints 11.4. Warnings Encountered When Using Narrow Avalon-MM Interfaces
A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats x
A.1. TLP Packet Formats without Data Payload A.2. TLP Packet Formats with Data Payload
C. Document Revision History x
C.1. Document Revision History for the Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon® Memory Mapped (Avalon-MM) DMA Interface for PCIe* Solutions User Guide
1. Datasheet
2. Getting Started with the Avalon-MM DMA
3. Parameter Settings
4. Physical Layout
5. IP Core Interfaces
6. Registers
7. Reset and Clocks
8. Error Handling
9. PCI Express Protocol Stack
10. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon-MM DMA for PCI Express
11. Design Implementation
A. Transaction Layer Packet (TLP) Header Formats
B. Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon-MM DMA Interface for PCIe Solutions User Guide Archive
C. Document Revision History

2.1. Understanding the Avalon-MM DMA Ports

The Avalon® -MM DMA bridge includes ports to implement the DMA functionality. The following figure and table below illustrate and describe these ports.
Figure 3.  Arria® 10 or Cyclone® 10 GX Avalon-MM DMA for PCI Express Platform Designer System Design
Table 11.   Avalon® -MM DMA Platform Designer System Port Descriptions
Function Port Description
TXS Txs This is an Avalon-MM slave port. In a typical application, an Avalon® -MM master uses this port to send memory reads or writes to the PCIe domain.

The Descriptor Controller uses it to write DMA status back to descriptor space in the PCIe domain when the DMA completes its operation. The Descriptor Controller also uses this port to send MSI interrupts upstream.

Read Data Mover dma_rd_master This is an Avalon® -MM master port.

The Read Data Mover moves data from the PCIe domain to the on-chip memory during normal read DMA operation. The Read Data Mover also fetches the descriptors from the PCIe domain and writes them to the FIFO in the Descriptor Controller. There are two separate descriptor tables for the read and write write DMA descriptors.The dma_rd_master connects to wr_dts_slave port to load the write DMA descriptor FIFO and rd_dts_slave port to load the read DMA descriptor FIFO.

Write Data Mover dma_wr_master This is an Avalon® -MM master port.

The Write Data Mover reads data from the on-chip memory and then writes data to the PCIe domain.

Descriptor Controller FIFOs wr_dts_slave and rd_dts_slave This is an Avalon® -MM slave port for the Descriptor Controller FIFOs. When the Read Data Mover fetches the descriptors from system memory, it writes the descriptors to the FIFO using this port. Because there are separate descriptor tables for read and write, there are two ports.

The address range for the write DMA FIFO is 0x100_0000—0x100_1FFF.

The address range for the read DMA FIFO is 0x100_2000—0x100_3FFF.

Control in the Descriptor Controller wr_dcm_master and rd_dcm_master The control block in the Descriptor Controller has one transmit and one receive port, one for read DMA and another one for write DMA. The receive port connects to the RXM_BAR0 and the transmit port connects to the Txs.

The receive path from the RXM_BAR0 connects internally. It is not shown in the connections panel. For the transmit path, both read and write DMA ports connect to the Txs externally as shown in the connections panel.

RXM_BAR0 not shown in connections panel This is an Avalon® -MM master port. It passes the memory access from PCIe host to PCIe BAR0. The host uses this port to program the Descriptor Controller. Because this Platform Designer system uses an internal descriptor controller, the port connection is not shown in Platform Designer. The connection is inside the a10_pcie_hip_0 module.
RXM_BAR4 Rxm_BAR4 This is an Avalon® -MM master port. It passes the memory access from PCIe host to PCIe BAR4. In the Platform Designer system, it connects to the on-chip memory. The PCIe host accesses the memory through PCIe BAR4

In a typical application, system software controls this port to initialize random data in the on-chip memory. Software also reads the data back to verify correct operation.

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