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Article: 151850
Subject: Re: Problem with Xilinx 10.1 PowerPC simulator
From: Bik <bik@wp.pl>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 20:14:47 +0200
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Try run xmd from edk
http://forums.xilinx.com/t5/EDK-and-Platform-Studio/Simple-SDK-question-how-to-debug-as-simulation-in-SDK/m-p/124820#M17844


Article: 151851
Subject: Re: Why feedback clock in SDRAM controllers?
From: Mawa_fugo <ccon67@netscape.net>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 13:39:25 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 7, 2:02=A0pm, valtih1978 <inte...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> I see it in many SDRAM controllers, e.g.ftp://ftp.xilinx.com/pub/applicat=
ions/xapp/xapp608.pdf, and nobody explains
> WHY
>
> The extranal feedback trace must equal to CK len. Ok. This means that SDR=
AM
> will be clocked in phase with the FPGA system

I think I can explain to this point.  rest of question I don't know

The DCM needs to "see" what the clock looks like at the memory, so it
can adjust the phase accordingly, for this purpose whoever wrote that
app notes thinking that the ext. feed back need to be same length as
the CK length










Article: 151852
Subject: Re: Verify failed between address 0x80000 and 0x8FFFF
From: "carlob" <carlo.beccia@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.libero.it>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:19:50 -0500
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Hi,
No idea about sysid...but you can investigate it...anyway there is a menu
in EDS to say that is not needed to check it ...to avoid any problem with
sysid...

In my experience, if I remember well, I've seen this happening only when
ram is not working properly...let me suppose...0x80000 is a ram address
where your application is linked to???

Usually you link an application to start from base address of a "ram"
inside your system...but before starting the processor the tools check what
you have downloaded....
Is the link address correct?? Is the ram working??? If you have, actually,
any problem with ram...insert an onchip ram in your design...build the
memtest small template that comes with eds and check external ram for real
problems...

Carlo

>Hello,
>
>I've been attempting to basically run through the mem_test template and
>tutorial,on Cyclone® III EP3C120 chip board.
>
>I am able to compile the custom SOPC design, the encompassing Quartus
file,
>download the SRAM Object File .sof to the board correctly, create the
>Application from BSP and Template, and even build the file in NIOS II
with
>no errors. The problem comes about when I attempt to run the system; the
>.elf downloads in its entirety , but then fails during verification.
>
>
>Verifying 08000000 ( 0%)
>Verify failed between address 0x80000 and 0x08FFFF
>Leaving target processor paused.
>
>
>	   
>					
>---------------------------------------		
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Article: 151853
Subject: Re: Verify failed between address 0x80000 and 0x8FFFF
From: Simon <google@gornall.net>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 18:38:19 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 24, 2:19=A0pm, "carlob"
<carlo.beccia@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.libero.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> No idea about sysid...but you can investigate it...anyway there is a menu
> in EDS to say that is not needed to check it ...to avoid any problem with
> sysid...
>
> In my experience, if I remember well, I've seen this happening only when
> ram is not working properly...let me suppose...0x80000 is a ram address
> where your application is linked to???
>
> Usually you link an application to start from base address of a "ram"
> inside your system...but before starting the processor the tools check wh=
at
> you have downloaded....
> Is the link address correct?? Is the ram working??? If you have, actually=
,
> any problem with ram...insert an onchip ram in your design...build the
> memtest small template that comes with eds and check external ram for rea=
l
> problems...
>
> Carlo

Not sure about the board you're using, but on my DE0 board, the code
defaults to going into the largest RAM section (which of course is the
SDRAM). So, if you're testing from 0x800000, you'll be overwriting the
code itself. The memtest.c that comes with Quartus 10.1 allows you to
specify a start and end address to test, so I was using 0x820000 to
0xf00000. Note that the top-end of ram is used for the stack, so you
need to not overwrite part of that too.

If you need to test all your ram, you'll need to set up an 8k+ on-chip
RAM, and edit your BSP's linker-script to place the code in the
smaller on-chip RAM. Then you'll have all the SDRAM to play with.

Simon

Article: 151854
Subject: Re: Fall Times and Pullup
From: shyam <mail.ghanashyam.prabhu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 01:19:42 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 24, 2:52=A0pm, colin <colin_toog...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 24, 9:39=A0am, Uwe Bonnes <b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> darmstadt.de> wrote:
> > shyam <mail.ghanashyam.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > If on a bidirectional bus, if there is a strong pull up and there is =
a
> > > device which is drives the line low, can we reduce the fall time
> > > substantially, if we reduce the pull up on the lines?
> > > Or is it that the low overrides the pull up and does not affect fall
> > > time at all?
>
> > Did you do the math? Did you try to simulate?
>
> > Take the Pull up current in relation to the low drive sink current...
> > --
> > Uwe Bonnes =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-d=
armstadt.de
>
> > Institut fuer Kernphysik =A0Schlossgartenstrasse 9 =A064289 Darmstadt
> > --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
>
> Let's give the poor guy a clue.
>
> What impedance is a driver designed to drive an edge into? If you
> don't know what a transmission line is you are in it up to your neck.

I am trying to analyze the behavior of the SD card data lines.
According
to the specifications, the SD card is supposed to drive the data at
the
falling edge of the clock and the host shall sample the data at the
rising
edge of the clock.

Now I see that the data transition of line going low, happens 8ns
after a
falling edge. Now _assuming_ that the card uses a flip flop to drive
the
output line, I would imagine the clock to output to be anywhere
between
2ns to 3ns. But I observe an 8ns clock to output. So I am not sure if
it is
the card that is at fault of driving the output so slow or is it the
pull up
on the line that is pulling the line hard to keep it 1 for a longer
time.


Thanks
Shyam

Article: 151855
Subject: Re: Fall Times and Pullup
From: shyam <mail.ghanashyam.prabhu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 01:21:04 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 24, 1:39=A0pm, Uwe Bonnes <b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-
darmstadt.de> wrote:
> shyam <mail.ghanashyam.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > If on a bidirectional bus, if there is a strong pull up and there is a
> > device which is drives the line low, can we reduce the fall time
> > substantially, if we reduce the pull up on the lines?
> > Or is it that the low overrides the pull up and does not affect fall
> > time at all?
>
> Did you do the math? Did you try to simulate?

There is no simulation that I am doing here. I have a board and am
observing the behavior mentioned in my next post in reply to colin.

The pullup is via a 10K resistor to a 3.3v supply line.

Thanks
Shyam

>
> Take the Pull up current in relation to the low drive sink current...
> --
> Uwe Bonnes =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-dar=
mstadt.de
>
> Institut fuer Kernphysik =A0Schlossgartenstrasse 9 =A064289 Darmstadt
> --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------


Article: 151856
Subject: Re: Verify failed between address 0x80000 and 0x8FFFF
From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?G=F3rski_Adam?= <gorskiamalpa@wpkropkapl>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 10:37:16 +0200
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
> Hi,
> No idea about sysid...but you can investigate it...anyway there is a menu
> in EDS to say that is not needed to check it ...to avoid any problem with
> sysid...
>
> In my experience, if I remember well, I've seen this happening only when
> ram is not working properly...let me suppose...0x80000 is a ram address
> where your application is linked to???
>
> Usually you link an application to start from base address of a "ram"
> inside your system...but before starting the processor the tools check what
> you have downloaded....
> Is the link address correct?? Is the ram working??? If you have, actually,
> any problem with ram...insert an onchip ram in your design...build the
> memtest small template that comes with eds and check external ram for real
> problems...
>
> Carlo
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've been attempting to basically run through the mem_test template and
>> tutorial,on Cyclone® III EP3C120 chip board.
>>
>> I am able to compile the custom SOPC design, the encompassing Quartus
> file,
>> download the SRAM Object File .sof to the board correctly, create the
>> Application from BSP and Template, and even build the file in NIOS II
> with
>> no errors. The problem comes about when I attempt to run the system; the
>> .elf downloads in its entirety , but then fails during verification.
>>
>>
>> Verifying 08000000 ( 0%)
>> Verify failed between address 0x80000 and 0x08FFFF
>> Leaving target processor paused.
>>

I had similar problem once. Even with "don't check sysid" feature 
marked, I couldn't download app.
As I remember with Q10.0 or similar.
What is located in this area from hardware side ? Program ram, flash , IO ?

Adam


Article: 151857
Subject: Re: Fall Times and Pullup
From: rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 05:45:52 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 25, 4:19=A0am, shyam <mail.ghanashyam.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 24, 2:52=A0pm, colin <colin_toog...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > On May 24, 9:39=A0am, Uwe Bonnes <b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-
>
> > darmstadt.de> wrote:
> > > shyam <mail.ghanashyam.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > If on a bidirectional bus, if there is a strong pull up and there i=
s a
> > > > device which is drives the line low, can we reduce the fall time
> > > > substantially, if we reduce the pull up on the lines?
> > > > Or is it that the low overrides the pull up and does not affect fal=
l
> > > > time at all?
>
> > > Did you do the math? Did you try to simulate?
>
> > > Take the Pull up current in relation to the low drive sink current...
> > > --
> > > Uwe Bonnes =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu=
-darmstadt.de
>
> > > Institut fuer Kernphysik =A0Schlossgartenstrasse 9 =A064289 Darmstadt
> > > --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
>
> > Let's give the poor guy a clue.
>
> > What impedance is a driver designed to drive an edge into? If you
> > don't know what a transmission line is you are in it up to your neck.
>
> I am trying to analyze the behavior of the SD card data lines.
> According
> to the specifications, the SD card is supposed to drive the data at
> the
> falling edge of the clock and the host shall sample the data at the
> rising
> edge of the clock.
>
> Now I see that the data transition of line going low, happens 8ns
> after a
> falling edge. Now _assuming_ that the card uses a flip flop to drive
> the
> output line, I would imagine the clock to output to be anywhere
> between
> 2ns to 3ns. But I observe an 8ns clock to output. So I am not sure if
> it is
> the card that is at fault of driving the output so slow or is it the
> pull up
> on the line that is pulling the line hard to keep it 1 for a longer
> time.
>
> Thanks
> Shyam

 To answer your original question, the fall time of an open collector/
drain is largely determined by the drive strength of the output and
the capacitance of the line and input.  There is some contribution by
the pullup as any current through the pullup is not going through the
capacitance, but with a value of 10 kohms it won't have much
contribution.

I can't say why the delay inside the SD card is 8 ns rather than 3
ns.  But I would not read too much into it.  This is a device designed
for low power, not for high logic speed necessarily.  How fast is the
clock specified to operate?  Is the 8 ns delay a significant portion
of the clock cycle?

Rick

Article: 151858
Subject: Re: Fall Times and Pullup
From: Ed McGettigan <ed.mcgettigan@xilinx.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 12:19:20 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 25, 1:19=A0am, shyam <mail.ghanashyam.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On May 24, 2:52=A0pm, colin <colin_toog...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On May 24, 9:39=A0am, Uwe Bonnes <b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu-
>
> > darmstadt.de> wrote:
> > > shyam <mail.ghanashyam.pra...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > If on a bidirectional bus, if there is a strong pull up and there i=
s a
> > > > device which is drives the line low, can we reduce the fall time
> > > > substantially, if we reduce the pull up on the lines?
> > > > Or is it that the low overrides the pull up and does not affect fal=
l
> > > > time at all?
>
> > > Did you do the math? Did you try to simulate?
>
> > > Take the Pull up current in relation to the low drive sink current...
> > > --
> > > Uwe Bonnes =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0b...@elektron.ikp.physik.tu=
-darmstadt.de
>
> > > Institut fuer Kernphysik =A0Schlossgartenstrasse 9 =A064289 Darmstadt
> > > --------- Tel. 06151 162516 -------- Fax. 06151 164321 ----------
>
> > Let's give the poor guy a clue.
>
> > What impedance is a driver designed to drive an edge into? If you
> > don't know what a transmission line is you are in it up to your neck.
>
> I am trying to analyze the behavior of the SD card data lines.
> According
> to the specifications, the SD card is supposed to drive the data at
> the
> falling edge of the clock and the host shall sample the data at the
> rising
> edge of the clock.
>
> Now I see that the data transition of line going low, happens 8ns
> after a
> falling edge. Now _assuming_ that the card uses a flip flop to drive
> the
> output line, I would imagine the clock to output to be anywhere
> between
> 2ns to 3ns. But I observe an 8ns clock to output. So I am not sure if
> it is
> the card that is at fault of driving the output so slow or is it the
> pull up
> on the line that is pulling the line hard to keep it 1 for a longer
> time.
>
> Thanks
> Shyam- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Why would you imagine what the timing would be instead of looking at a
device datasheet to see what the real specifications are?

Here's one example:
http://www.stec-inc.com/downloads/flash_datasheets/SLSDxxxB_I_U61000-05203.=
pdf

In the high speed mode Table 13, the data output will occur between
2.5 to 14nS after the clock.

Ed McGettigan
--
Xilinx Inc.

Article: 151859
Subject: PCI Express Cable
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 13:14:57 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Hi,

Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
what I'm doing for me.

We plan to use a OneStop host-end board to drive the cable, in the
customer's control computer.

This will be 8-lane Gen1, so the electricals (PCB layout and such)
shouldn't be too bad... if I connect the right things to the right
things.

jjlarkin
atsign
highlandtechnology
dotthing
com



Article: 151860
Subject: Re: Verify failed between address 0x80000 and 0x8FFFF
From: "carlob" <carlo.beccia@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.libero.it>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:10:42 -0500
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>

>
>I had similar problem once. Even with "don't check sysid" feature 
>marked, I couldn't download app.

Uhmmm..strange...10.0 bug???

>As I remember with Q10.0 or similar.
>What is located in this area from hardware side ? Program ram, flash , IO
?
>
>Adam

This is the best question...what is starting from 0x80000 and where do you
link your sw...said in other way...which address your software starts
from??
As somebody suggested...you cannot test a piece of ram where you are
running your test code...pay attention....

Anyway in my opinion this is not the case....eds is not able to download
correctly the code...if this is not related to sysid (I never experimented
that problem so I cannot say) it should be related to memory problems or
link address problems...check it..

If you are using a demo board with a standard project..I tend to exclude
ram problems...the board and the netlist have been already checked before
selling ...if you are using custom hw...ram could not be working...if you
are using custom project..check againg your .sopc and, eventually, timing
constraints for the ram...that can be the problem...

Carlo	   
					
---------------------------------------		
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Article: 151861
Subject: Re: Verify failed between address 0x80000 and 0x8FFFF
From: Simon <google@gornall.net>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:44:46 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 25, 2:10=A0pm, "carlob"
<carlo.beccia@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.libero.it> wrote:
> >I had similar problem once. Even with "don't check sysid" feature
> >marked, I couldn't download app.
>
> Uhmmm..strange...10.0 bug???

I ran into this myself earlier today while I was trying to debug DMA.
The problem (in my case) was that I'd forgotten to include the PLL
that offsets the SDRAM (off-chip) clock from the cpu (on-chip) clock.
The SDRAM would work intermittently, sometimes the download would
succeed, sometimes it would fail.

Adding the PLL solved this for me, although it didn't help me get DMA
working :( I had to jump to Quartus2 v11 to get the DMA to
successfully transfer data - what appeared to be the same design in
10.1 didn't work for me.

Simon

Article: 151862
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: a7yvm109gf5d1@netzero.com
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 25, 3:14=A0pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
> cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
> that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
> equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
> ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
> what I'm doing for me.
>
> We plan to use a OneStop host-end board to drive the cable, in the
> customer's control computer.
>
> This will be 8-lane Gen1, so the electricals (PCB layout and such)
> shouldn't be too bad... if I connect the right things to the right
> things.
>
> jjlarkin
> atsign
> highlandtechnology
> dotthing
> com

A PCIe extender? We bought and built some at my old place.
http://www.samtec.com/ProductInformation/TechnicalSpecifications/overview.a=
spx?series=3DPCIEC

Article: 151863
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:17:40 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:45:23 -0700 (PDT), a7yvm109gf5d1@netzero.com
wrote:

>On May 25, 3:14 pm, John Larkin
><jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
>> cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
>> that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
>> equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
>> ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
>> what I'm doing for me.
>>
>> We plan to use a OneStop host-end board to drive the cable, in the
>> customer's control computer.
>>
>> This will be 8-lane Gen1, so the electricals (PCB layout and such)
>> shouldn't be too bad... if I connect the right things to the right
>> things.
>>
>> jjlarkin
>> atsign
>> highlandtechnology
>> dotthing
>> com
>
>A PCIe extender? We bought and built some at my old place.
>http://www.samtec.com/ProductInformation/TechnicalSpecifications/overview.aspx?series=PCIEC

What we're going to do is have the customer plug one of these

http://www.onestopsystems.com/pcie_hib25_x8.php

into his system, then run it through one of these

http://www.molex.com/webdocs/datasheets/pdf/en-us/0745460802_CABLE_ASSEMBLIES.pdf

then into a mating connector on our board. Then a couple of equalizer
chips, then into the FPGA.

I'm trying to piece together the puzzle. I've made an honest try at
reading the Mindshare (mind-numbing) PCIe book, all 1047 pages of it,
but it's very light on the hardware aspects, and don't even mention
PCIe over cable. The index doesn't include the words "cable" or even
"connector." PCIe is shockingly complex; I'm amazed it works at all.

John








Article: 151864
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: "langwadt@fonz.dk" <langwadt@fonz.dk>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 16:20:23 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On 26 Maj, 01:17, John Larkin
<jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:45:23 -0700 (PDT), a7yvm109gf...@netzero.com
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >On May 25, 3:14 pm, John Larkin
> ><jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
> >> cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
> >> that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
> >> equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
> >> ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
> >> what I'm doing for me.
>
> >> We plan to use a OneStop host-end board to drive the cable, in the
> >> customer's control computer.
>
> >> This will be 8-lane Gen1, so the electricals (PCB layout and such)
> >> shouldn't be too bad... if I connect the right things to the right
> >> things.
>
> >> jjlarkin
> >> atsign
> >> highlandtechnology
> >> dotthing
> >> com
>
> >A PCIe extender? We bought and built some at my old place.
> >http://www.samtec.com/ProductInformation/TechnicalSpecifications/over...
>
> What we're going to do is have the customer plug one of these
>
> http://www.onestopsystems.com/pcie_hib25_x8.php
>
> into his system, then run it through one of these
>
> http://www.molex.com/webdocs/datasheets/pdf/en-us/0745460802_CABLE_AS...
>
> then into a mating connector on our board. Then a couple of equalizer
> chips, then into the FPGA.
>
> I'm trying to piece together the puzzle. I've made an honest try at
> reading the Mindshare (mind-numbing) PCIe book, all 1047 pages of it,
> but it's very light on the hardware aspects, and don't even mention
> PCIe over cable. The index doesn't include the words "cable" or even
> "connector." PCIe is shockingly complex; I'm amazed it works at all.
>
> John

looked at something like this for inspiration?
http://www.opalkelly.com/products/xem6110/

-Lasse

Article: 151865
Subject: Re: Scoping a glitch
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 18:06:05 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On Mon, 16 May 2011 21:02:44 -0700, "Mr.CRC"
<crobcBOGUS@REMOVETHISsbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Hi:
>
>Today I took scope shots of a clock input to my Xilinx Spartan 3e,
>Digilent NEXYS2 board.  The clock goes to a counter, simulating a
>quadrature encoder, as explained in post "Counter clocks on both edges
>sometimes, but not when different IO pin is used" on 5-13-2011.
>
>I have discovered that I'm dealing with a different animal here than
>even the fastest logic chips I've grown comfortable with, the AC family.


We were recently playing with a Spartan 3, to see how narrow a pulse
we could count, using LVDS inputs feeding the first flop of a ripple
counter. 1 ns seemed to work OK.

We have seen slow input edges with a tiny amount of noise clock on the
wrong edge. Even CCLK does this!

Output edges are similarly screaming fast, sub-ns.

One can also do serious amounts of logic and get jitter in the 10s of
ps RMS.

They should give us a slow+schmitt input option.

John


Article: 151866
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: Kolja Sulimma <ksulimma@googlemail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 05:25:12 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On 25 Mai, 22:14, John Larkin
<jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
> cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
> that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
> equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
> ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
> what I'm doing for me.

You should get the PCIe-over-cable spec.
The communication staff is actually rather simple. PCIe is
surprisingly robust.
But there are rather confusing hot plug signaling requirements.

Regards,

Kolja
cronologic


Article: 151867
Subject: Records as ports in Synplify
From: "mcholbi" <miguel.cholbicollados@n_o_s_p_a_m.n_o_s_p_a_m.aes-aero.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:46:46 -0500
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
We are trying to implement a toplevel module which has an IN and an OUT
port which are records. The synthesis works fine but we have the problem
that synplify converts these record ports in a big port like
"i_inputs[80:0]" instead of single ports like i_inputs.in0, i_inputs_flag,
i_inputs.enable ... 

This way its impossible later to assign the pins of the FPGA in Designer to
the correct port. Is there anyway or work around to solve this problem or
to change this behaviour? 

Can the pins be assigned before synthesis? in the sdc file? And if it is
possible which format do I use for the records?

Thanks and congratulations for the forum, always source of solutions!	   
					
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Article: 151868
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: John Adair <g1@enterpoint.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 08:54:48 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
We have been running PCIe Gen1 with our Raggedstone2 Spartan-6
development boards over short ribbon cables and it is remarkably
robust like other people have seen. We have not tried that yet with
our Raggedstone3 Cyclone IV GX development boards yet but that is on
the list to do.

Proper PCIe cables e.g. http://www.tmcscsi.com/PCIe_cables.shtml?gclid=3DCO=
yvzJX9hakCFUEb4QodPGjjkg
should be pretty good.

John Adair
Enterpoint Ltd.


On May 25, 9:14=A0pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
> cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
> that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
> equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
> ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
> what I'm doing for me.
>
> We plan to use a OneStop host-end board to drive the cable, in the
> customer's control computer.
>
> This will be 8-lane Gen1, so the electricals (PCB layout and such)
> shouldn't be too bad... if I connect the right things to the right
> things.
>
> jjlarkin
> atsign
> highlandtechnology
> dotthing
> com


Article: 151869
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 10:46:17 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On Thu, 26 May 2011 05:25:12 -0700 (PDT), Kolja Sulimma
<ksulimma@googlemail.com> wrote:

>On 25 Mai, 22:14, John Larkin
><jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
>> cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
>> that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
>> equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
>> ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
>> what I'm doing for me.
>
>You should get the PCIe-over-cable spec.

Probably so. It's $1000. Or I can join the consortium, and get all the
specs, for $3000. I think I can get my customer to pay for it!

This money-for-specs thing is sort of annoying.

John


Article: 151870
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: nico@puntnl.niks (Nico Coesel)
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 18:59:36 GMT
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 26 May 2011 05:25:12 -0700 (PDT), Kolja Sulimma
><ksulimma@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 25 Mai, 22:14, John Larkin
>><jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
>>> cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
>>> that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
>>> equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
>>> ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
>>> what I'm doing for me.
>>
>>You should get the PCIe-over-cable spec.
>
>Probably so. It's $1000. Or I can join the consortium, and get all the
>specs, for $3000. I think I can get my customer to pay for it!
>
>This money-for-specs thing is sort of annoying.

Nahh, just search on internet. Its out there for free!

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
--------------------------------------------------------------

Article: 151871
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: OutputLogic <evgenist@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:00:00 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
John,

We've been using One Stop Systems ( http://www.onestopsystems.com/ ) -
Gen1 and Gen2 PCIe cables, host adapters, and express cards.

Thanks,
Evgeni
http://outputlogic.com

Article: 151872
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: John Larkin <jjlarkin@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:15:25 -0700
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On Thu, 26 May 2011 12:00:00 -0700 (PDT), OutputLogic
<evgenist@gmail.com> wrote:

>John,
>
>We've been using One Stop Systems ( http://www.onestopsystems.com/ ) -
>Gen1 and Gen2 PCIe cables, host adapters, and express cards.
>
>Thanks,
>Evgeni
>http://outputlogic.com

My customer plans to use their XMC board to drive their end of the
cable.

John


Article: 151873
Subject: Instantiation of an EDF netlist within a Verilog top RTL
From: "rahul_fpga" <rahulece83@n_o_s_p_a_m.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 14:22:13 -0500
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
Hello Guys,

I am working with Synplify Pro. I have a RTL wrapper in Verilog where a
module is instantiated. But this module is available as an EDF netlist. How
can I include this EDF netlist in my Synplify project so that it can be
integrated with the wrapper RTL without any compilation error?

Best regards,
Rahul

	   
					
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Article: 151874
Subject: Re: PCI Express Cable
From: "miso@sushi.com" <miso@sushi.com>
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 13:50:02 -0700 (PDT)
Links: << >>  << T >>  << A >>
On May 25, 4:17=A0pm, John Larkin
<jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 May 2011 15:45:23 -0700 (PDT), a7yvm109gf...@netzero.com
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >On May 25, 3:14=A0pm, John Larkin
> ><jjlar...@highNOTlandTHIStechnologyPART.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
>
> >> Does anybody here have experience designing something to do PCIe over
> >> cable? I need to design (ie, draw the schematic of) a target device
> >> that will have a Molex cable/connector coming in, some Pericom or such
> >> equalizer chips, and an Altera Arria II GX45 FPGA. There are enough
> >> ways to mess this up that I'd sure like to have a consultant check
> >> what I'm doing for me.
>
> >> We plan to use a OneStop host-end board to drive the cable, in the
> >> customer's control computer.
>
> >> This will be 8-lane Gen1, so the electricals (PCB layout and such)
> >> shouldn't be too bad... if I connect the right things to the right
> >> things.
>
> >> jjlarkin
> >> atsign
> >> highlandtechnology
> >> dotthing
> >> com
>
> >A PCIe extender? We bought and built some at my old place.
> >http://www.samtec.com/ProductInformation/TechnicalSpecifications/over...
>
> What we're going to do is have the customer plug one of these
>
> http://www.onestopsystems.com/pcie_hib25_x8.php
>
> into his system, then run it through one of these
>
> http://www.molex.com/webdocs/datasheets/pdf/en-us/0745460802_CABLE_AS...
>
> then into a mating connector on our board. Then a couple of equalizer
> chips, then into the FPGA.
>
> I'm trying to piece together the puzzle. I've made an honest try at
> reading the Mindshare (mind-numbing) PCIe book, all 1047 pages of it,
> but it's very light on the hardware aspects, and don't even mention
> PCIe over cable. The index doesn't include the words "cable" or even
> "connector." PCIe is shockingly complex; I'm amazed it works at all.
>
> John

I own a Magma PCI bus extender, which sounds similar to your project.
DigiDesign on the peninsula used to use them extensively in digital
sound recording before multichannel cards existed. It is a grossly
overpriced product, but it you need one, you pay the piper.

http://www.magma.com/

Maybe they can OEM something for you. Just don't expect it to be
cheap.

Incidentally, windows and linux recognize the bus extender without a
hitch. No driver issues at all.



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