This version (27 Jan 2021 22:38) was approved by Robin Getz.The Previously approved version (08 Nov 2016 13:33) is available.
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EVAL-CN0363-PMDZ HDL Reference Design
Functional Overview
The EVAL-CN0363-PMDZ HDL reference design is based on the Analog Devices base reference design for the ZED board. In addition to the base reference design EVAL-CN0363-PMDZ HDL reference design implements function blocks to communicate over a SPI bus with the AD7175-2 SigmaDelta ADC to configure it and receive the raw ADC data as well a configure the AD5201 digital potentiometer. The data received from the ADC is passed to a processing pipeline which performs a digital synchronous detector and finally write the data to system memory using a DMA. The HDL reference design is also responsible for generating the LED excitation signal. A simplified functional block diagram of the system is given below.
Supported Devices
Supported Carriers
Files
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| system_project.tcl | Vivado IP integrator project script |
| system_bd.tcl | Vivado IP integrator board definition script |
| system_constr.xdc | System constraints file |
| system_top.v | Top-level project HDL module |
| filters/hpf.mat | High-pass filter |
| filters/lpf.math | Low-pass filter |
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- Releases (the used tool version can be found in README.md)
Base reference design
The EVAL-CN0363-PMDZ HDL reference design is built on-top the standard Analog Devices base HDL reference design for the ZED board. The base reference design implements basic input and output connectivity to the ZED board, like USB, HDMI-out and audio support. It also instantiated the Xilinx PS7 processing system which contains a dual core ARM A9 applications processor which is used for running software corresponding to the reference design.
SPI communication
To implement the SPI communication logic for the EVAL-CN0363-PMDZ HDL reference design the SPI Engine framework is used. This allows the flexibility to access all configuration registers for both connected SPI devices dynamically from software as well as allowing low-latency and high-throughput automated access to the SPI bus when capturing sample data from the ADC.
The SPI-Engine AXI core in the design is mapped into the system's peripheral memory bus via a AXI-Lite bus and be accessed by the CPU. It's interrupt signal is also connected to the processing system. The SPI-Engine AXI core controls the renaming part of the SPI-Engine cores used in the design and it has primarily two functions. One is to give direct access to the SPI bus which is used to configure the configuration registers of the SPI devices. The other is to configure and control the SPI-Engine offload core.
The SPI-Engine interconnect core is used to give both the SPI-Engine AXI and SPI-Engine offload core access to the SPI-Engine execution core. The SPI-Engine offload core is connected to the first interconnect slave port, which means it has priority over the SPI-Engine AXI core. This is done because reading the ADC result data is timing critical while changing the configuration registers is typically not.
The SPI-Engine offload core is used to read the ADC result data and feeds the received data into the processing pipeline. Software is responsible for setting up the core with the correct SPI message to read the ADC result register as well as enable the core when the ADC converter is active. Once the core has been set up and enabled the stored SPI message will be executed when the data ready (RDY) signal from the ADC is detected.
The SPI-Engine execution core is responsible for handling the low level SPI bus access. It accepts the SPI-Engine commands from the SPI-Engine AXI and SPI-Engine offload core and handles them accordingly.
The SigmaDelta SPI core is responsible for monitoring the low-level SPI bus and extracting the data ready from the bus which is multiplexed over the same physical wire as the SPI MISO signal. The data ready signal is connected to the SPI-Engine offload core which starts to read the ADC conversion result when the signal is asserted. It is also connected to the processing pipeline which takes a snapshot of the current phase of the excitation signal when the data ready signal is asserted. This allows precise time-stamping of the excitation signal phase in relation to the time when the ADC conversion was performed.
Synchronous detector processing pipeline
The first block in the EVAL-CN0363-PMDZ processing pipeline is the cn0363_phase_data_sync core. It takes a snapshot of the phase counter when a rising edge is detected on conversion done signal. It will then wait for the corresponding data sample to be read from the ADC by the SPI block. Once both data and phase are ready they will be given to the next step in the processing pipeline. The core also converts the ADC data from offset binary to two's complement signed format.
As the next step the ADC data is sent through a high-pass filter which is configured to remove noise below 50 Hz and any DC components.
After that the output data from the high-pass filter and the phase corresponding phase data is send through a CORDIC de-modulator. The CORDIC de-modulator will calculate the result of the data multiplied by both the cosine and sine of the phase. The output is the demodulated in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components data corresponding to the original input signal.
The I and Q components are send into a low-pass filter with a small pass band which is used to remove frequency components which are different from the excitation frequency.
The final block in the processing pipeline is a sequencer block which cycles through the initial input data, the intermediate results and the final processing result and sends them to the DMA controller which will copy them to system memory. Each of sequencer channels can be independently enabled or disabled. If a channel is discarded and not send to the DMA. During normal operation typically all but the final processing results are discarded.
The various broadcasting blocks in the processing pipeline are used to forward the data to the next processing element of the pipeline as well as to the sequencer which sends them to the DMA. The later allows to inspect the intermediate results of the processing pipeline.
Both filters are configured in a time-division-multiplexing configuration. This means for each channel (2 for the high-pass filter and 4 for the low-pass filter) there is a storage for saving the filter inputs, but the logic for calculating the filter output as well as the coefficients are shared between each channel. This is possible since the ADC is running at a output data rate of 50 kHz while the FPGA pipeline is running at 100 MHz. Which gives about 2000 clock cycles to process each high-pass filter result and 1000 clock cycles for each low-pass filter result.
Building the Design
For building the EVAL-CN0363-PMDZ HDL reference design follow the default instruction for building Analog Devices' HDL reference designs.
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