Students: Oleg Korenev Eugene Reznik Supervisor: Rolf Hilgendorf DDRIII BASED General Purpose FIFO on Virtex-6 FPGA ML605 board PART A presentation Students: Oleg Korenev Eugene Reznik Supervisor: Rolf Hilgendorf Semester: spring 2012

Content Project overview Specifications Part A goals Memory on ml605 AXI4 Part A overview Part B goals and Workflow Timeline

Project Overview Design and implementation of General Purpose FIFO IP core which allows usage of external memory (DDR3) as FIFO storage on Xilinx FPGA device Design and implement generic IP core of FIFO Design and implement GUI generator of IP core on PC Create sample design with implemented IP core

Specifications Hardware Software Xilinx Virtex-6 ML605 FPGA Evaluation Kit DDR III memory Ethernet interface PC with Ethernet interface Software ISE Design Suite Logic Edition Version 14.3 Modelsim Wireshark Winpcap library

Our goals part a Gain experience in hardware development (VHDL environment) Explore and expertise FPGA work environment Create design with configurable word size FIFO depth Achieve best performance Minimize usage of FPGA resources Make our world a better place

MEMORY on ml605 DDR3 memory Capacity: 512MB Max theoretical bandwidth: 800MT/s*64bit = 6.4GB/sec Xilinx provides us with DDR3 controller which has AXI Memory Mapped interface AXI bus data width up to 1024 bit 256 bit for max memory performance, assuming bus works with 200Mhz

4AXI Xilinx provides us with AXI4 Memory Mapped bus, which is a standard bus used in modern ARM SoC. Features Separate Address/Control and Data Phases burst-based transactions with only start address issued separate read and write data channels

General purpose Fifo AXI4 Interface CONTROLLER Native Fifo Interface FIFO TO MEMORY MEMORY TO FIFO F I F O F I F O Native Fifo Interface

General purpose Fifo interface AXI4 Native FIFO GP FIFO

part a overview general purpose Fifo Interface GP FIFO has native FIFO interface Word size can be 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 bit Utilizes DDR3 memory through AXI interconnect Depth is limited only by available RAM memory on DDR3 Internal architecture Internal FIFO-To-Memory controller Internal Memory-To-FIFO controller Internal Bypass controller Arbitration between GP FIFOs is managed by AXI interconnect

Example DESIGN Block Diagram DDR3 HOST STORAGE LOGIC STORAGE USER STORAGE MEMORY CONTROLLER AXI4 BUS (INTERCONNECT) General Purpose Fifo General Purpose Fifo MAC Module MAC Controller HOST Example Design

part a overview example design Interface Utilizes Ethernet MAC level of communication Software has simple and intuitive interface Software handles all the data transmission in between host and GP FIFO Internal architecture MAC module GP FIFO Simple example of a logic which uses GP FIFO MAC can potentially provide us with a considerably high speed of data transmission, the bottleneck is software - driver performance

Part a overview conclusion Our design meets the requirements of the project. GP FIFO is fast limited only by interconnect bus available bandwidth GP FIFO has potentially configurable depth and word size GP FIFO is simple, utilizes small amount of resources on the board GP FIFO gives you another easy way to pass big chunks of data from one module to another. Our example design provides you with efficient communication in between a host and the board.

Our goals part b Generalize our GP FIFO Simulate and test all the possible configurations and their exceptional case Make possible optimizations Close timing on each configuration Develop software generator of GP FIFO IP core Write detailed manual for IP core and for it’s generator

Timeline Task 2 weeks 3 weeks Duration Generalize GP FIFO 16/6 9/6 2/6 26/5 19/5 12/5 5/5 28/4 21/4 14/4 7/4 Duration Task 2 weeks Generalize GP FIFO Optimizations 3 weeks Simulation and Testing Close Timing Develop IP core generator Write manual