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2.8.3. Wire-Level Connectivity
After applying the expression, the port you specify moves from the current interface into a Wire-Level Endpoint interface. The new interface name appends _wirelevel to the existing interface name. If you remove the wire-level expression, the port restores to the original interface. However, not all interfaces are restorable to legal interfaces after certain ports change. Moving a port from its original interface might result in validation errors on the original interface.
After you move a port to a Wire-Level Endpoint interface, wire-level expressions must drive all bits in the vector. You cannot connect ports contained within this new interface type to any other interfaces.
The following general rules apply to wire-level expressions:
- Wire-level connectivity is only available on optional input ports.
- Wire-level expressions can consist of input, output, and bi-directional ports, constant values, and logic terms using standard Verilog syntax.
- Wire-level expressions can only consist of ports within the same level of hierarchy. If you require elements from a higher or lower hierarchy, you must export the appropriate elements to the same hierarchical context.
- You can apply multiple expressions to a single input port unless they collide or cause bus contention.
- You must resolve validation errors occurring on the original interface for the interface to function correctly.
Platform Designer validates the wire-level expressions and provides messages for syntax, port existence, and other systematic errors. This validation includes the following:
- Validation of Verilog syntax.
- Warning if any sub-operator elements don’t match bit size.
- Warning if resulting combined bit size does not match the driven input port.
- Validation that all module and port names exist.
- Validation that all ports in a wire-level interface are input ports.
- Validation that all wire-level expressions drive each input port within a wire-level interface.
- Validation of no bus-contention, meaning that no one wire is driven by more than one expression.
- In a composed _hw.tcl module, validation that all ports driven by wire-level expressions are not in any connection.
- In a composed _hw.tcl module, validation that all ports driven by wire-level expressions are not exported.
After you define wire-level expressions, generate the system to create the Verilog files. When the Platform Designer GUI or qsys-script utility applies the expression, the expression inserts into the Verilog wrapper file that generates for your system. When you apply the wire-level connections with composed _hw.tcl commands, the wire-level expression inserts in the IP component's Verilog wrapper file.