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AXI_AD9963

The axi_ad9963 IP is implementing the interfacing with the AD9963 chip. It features a dual 12 bit ADC working up to 100MSPS and a dual 12 bit DAC with up to 170MSPS. It also features a DLL which can provide clock for both the ADC and the DAC path.

More about the generic framework interfacing ADCs can be read here: axi_adc_ip, and for DACs: axi_dac_ip.

Features

  • AXI Lite control/status interface
  • PRBS monitoring
  • Hardware DC filtering
  • IQ/Scale correction
  • Internal DDS
  • Programmable line delays
  • Supports Xilinx devices

Block Diagram

 AXI_AD9963 Block diagram

Configuration Parameters

Name Description Default Value
ID Core ID should be unique for each AD9963 IP in the system 0
DEVICE_TYPE Used to select between Virtex 6 (1) or 7 Series (0) devices 0
ADC_IODELAY_ENABLE Enable IODELAY for tuning the TRX interface 0
IO_DELAY_GROUP The delay group name which is set for the delay controller “adc_if_delay_group”
DAC_DATAPATH_DISABLE Disable DAC processing blocks. Disables DDS 0
ADC_USERPORTS_DISABLE Disable ADC userports 0
ADC_DATAFORMAT_DISABLE Disable ADC data format processing block 0
ADC_DCFILTER_DISABLE Disable ADC dc filtering processing block 0
ADC_IQCORRECTION_DISABLE Disable ADC IQ corection processing block 0
ADC_SCALECORRECTION_ONLY If IQ correction block is enabled and only the scale needs to be corrected, this should be set to 1 1

Interface

Interface Pin Type Description
CMOS RX interface signals
trx_clk input CMOS input clock
trx_iq input CMOS input channel selection
trx_data input[11:0] CMOS input data
CMOS TX interface signals
tx_clk input CMOS input clock
tx_iq output CMOS output channel selection
tx_data output[11:0] CMOS output data
Transmit master/slave
dac_sync_in input DAC synchronization signal. It is generated by the master core and used by all the cores in the system. Only one of the IPs should be master
dac_sync_out output DAC synchronization signal. It is generated by the master core and used by all the cores in the system. Only one of the cores should be master
Delay Clock
delay_clock input Clock used by the IDELAYCTRL. Connect to 200MHz
DMA_RX interface
adc_clk output Clock derived from the TRX clock. It is the clock on which all ADC related logic runs.
adc_rst output Output reset, on the adc_clk domain
adc_enable_i output Set when the channel I is enabled, activated by software
adc_valid_i output Set when valid data is available on the channel I
adc_data_i output[15:0] Channel I data bus
adc_enable_q output Set when the channel Q is enabled, activated by software
adc_valid_q output Set when valid data is available on the channel Q
adc_data_q output[15:0] Channel Q data bus
adc_dovf input Data overflow input, from the DMA
DMA_TX interface
dac_clk output Clock derived from the TX clock. It is the clock on which all DAC related logic runs.
dac_rst output Output reset, on the dac_clk domain
dac_enable_i output Set when the channel I is enabled, activated by software
dac_valid_i output Set when valid data is available on the channel I
dac_data_i input[15:0] Channel I data bus
dac_enable_q output Set when the channel Q is enabled, activated by software
dac_valid_q output Set when valid data is available on the channel Q
dac_data_q input[15:0] Channel Q data bus
dac_dunf input Data underflow input from the DMA
AXI_S_MM interface
s_axi_* Standard AXI Slave Memory Map interface

Detailed Description

The TRX (ADC) interface is set at 100 MSPS, full duplex mode, double data rate (DDR), two channels. The clock comes from the AD9963 chip.

The TX (DAC) interface works at 75MSPS data rate with interpolation by 2 on the AD9963 chip. The DAC path inside AD9963 chip works at 150MHz, pushing part of the spurs outside the 100MHz bandwidth. The design assumes that the 75MHz clock is not available in the FPGA. In order to reduce the number of PLL used in the FPGA, we are using AD9963 and a BUFR (divide by 2) to generate this clock. When the clock is generated by AD9963, DDR transfer is not available. The TX interface works at 150 MHz, SDR.

Register Map

Register map

The register map of the core contains instances of several generic register maps like ADC common, ADC channel, DAC common, DAC channel etc. The following table presents the base addresses of each instance, after that can be found the detailed description of each generic register map. The absolute address of a register should be calculated by adding the instance base address to the registers relative address.

Register Map base addresses for axi_ad9963

Address Name Description
DWORD BYTE
0x0000 0x0000 BASE See the Base (common to all cores) table for more detail
0x0000 0x0000 ADC COMMON See the ADC Common table for more detail
0x0000 0x0000 ADC CHANNELS See the ADC Channel table for more detail
0x1000 0x4000 DAC COMMON See the DAC Common table for more detail
0x1000 0x4000 DAC CHANNELS See the DAC Channel table for more detail

Base (common to all cores)

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ADC Common (axi_ad*)

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ADC Channel (axi_ad*)

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DAC Common (axi_ad)

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DAC Channel (axi_ad*)

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Design Guidelines

In order to reduce the power and resource utilization, all the unused features should be disabled.

Software Guidelines

For RX PRBS data, when 2's complement mode is selected, each new word is the 1 bit shifted version of the previous word. Steps to do in order to test the PRBS on the RX path:

  • 1. Write to AD9963 SPI register 0x51 the value 1, which enables the BIST core.
  • 2. Write to AD9963 SPI register 0x51 the value 7
  • 3. Read register 0x404 from the AD9361 ADC core (should read value 2 or 6)
  • 4. Write back to register 0x404 from the AD9361 ADC core the value read above
  • 5. Read register 0x404 from the AD9361 ADC core. It should read 0x0 if the RX path is working correctly for channel 1
  • 6. Perform steps 3-6 with register 0x444. This will validate the RX path for channel 2

If the TRX path does not work correctly, the output current on the TRX pins can be changed by writing to register 0x63.

The TX interface testing is done by writing 1024 samples of PRBS data and checking the BIST signature values for both the I and the Q side. Interpolation should not be active during the BIST testing.

References

resources/fpga/docs/axi_ad9963.txt · Last modified: 13 Oct 2021 09:50 by Iulia Moldovan