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Generic AXI ADC IP core

The following wiki page presents a generic framework, which is used to design and develop an AXI based IP core for interfacing an ADC device with a high speed serial (JESD204B) or source synchronous parallel interface (LVDS/CMOS). This is a generic framework, there can be minor differences on each and every IP, the user should study this wiki page along with the IP's wiki page.

The main role of this page to ease the understanding of each ADC IP, and to provide a base knowledge which can be used to develop new IPs for currently unsupported devices.

Any kind of feedback regarding the ADC IP architecture or the following document is highly appreciated and can be addressed through the FPGA Reference Designs community forum.

Architecture

The main function of an AXI ADC IP is to handle all the low level signalling, which is defined by the device's digital data interface, and to forward the received data to a more simple FIFO interface. Beside this functionality there are a few processing modules inside the data path of the core, which can be used for signal conditioning. All these processing modules are optional, the are enabled or disabled by setting the appropriate parameters. The following block diagram presents a generic AXI ADC IP cores data path.

 AXI ADC datapath

Receiver PHY

The most important part of the core is the Receiver PHY module. This module contains all the IO primitive instantiations and all the control logic required to receive data from the device.

Currently the Receiver PHY supports several different receive interface:

All these interfaces are supported on both Altera (Intel) and Xilinx devices.

This module is perfect choice for those, who wants a HDL logic for the device interface, with a minimal resource footprint.

(1) The receive module contains just the Transport Layer of the JESD204B interface. Lower layers are implemented by other cores.

ADC channel

  • Data format module
  • DC Offset correction module
  • IQ correction module
  • PN Monitor

TODO: wiki page about each module TODO: describe the (Write) FIFO interface

ADC core

The ADC core is the top file of the IP core, the naming convention of this file is: axi_<device_name>.v . Here are instantiated all the internal module discussed above, and a wrapper module (up_axi), which converts the AXI interface into a more simplistic addressable, memory mapped interface, so called microprocessor interface or uP interface. This interface is used to interconnect the different memory mapped module pieces.

Signal and Interface Pins

A generic AXI ADC core have at least three different interfaces:

  • The physical data interface (LVDS or CMOS) or the JESD204B data interface from the link layer
  • Write FIFO interface of the receiver or sink module (e.g. DMA)
  • AXI Slave Memory Mapped interface for register map access
Interface Pin Type Description
LVDS or CMOS RX interface
rx_clk_in_[p|n] clock input clock input
rx_data_in_[p|n] input[resolution-1:0] parallel data input
rx_frame_in_[p|n] input frame input signal (optional/device specific)
rx_or_in_[p|n] input over range input (optional/device specific)
JESD RX interface
rx_clk clock input core clock
rx_sof input[3:0] start of frame signal
rx_data input[DW-1:0] data input; DW=32*MAX_LANE_NO
rx_ready output ready, core always ready (tied to HIGH)
rx_valid input data valid
Write FIFO interface
adc_clk clock output Interface's clock signal
adc_enable_0 output Enable signal for the first channel, asserted if channel is active
adc_valid_0 output Data valid signal for the first channel, to validate data on the bus
adc_data_0 output[DW-1:0] Data signal for the first channel
adc_enable_x output Enable signal for the channel x, asserted if channel is active
adc_valid_x output Data valid signal for the channel x, to validate data on the bus
adc_data_x output[DW-1:0] Data signal for the channel x
adc_dovf input Data overflow signal from the receiver or sink module (e.g DMA)
adc_dunf input Data underflow signal from the receiver or sink module (e.g DMA)
AXI Memory Map Slave
s_axi_* Standard AXI Slave Memory Map interface for register map access

Register Map

TODO: wiki page about the register map architecture

  • present the AXI Memory Mapped interface
  • talk about the UP_AXI wrapper and the simplified register interface
  • present read and write logic
  • present CDC circuits

The following block diagram presents the different register maps physical location in the core. These register maps are generic and can be found in each AXI ADC core.

 AXI ADC Register Map

The base and ADC common register map is implemented in the same verilog file. It contains registers which controls and monitors the overall core, like:

  • Reset bits
  • Attributes of the receiver interface module
  • DRP (Dynamic Reconfiguration Port) access for different IO resources (Clock Management Units, PLLs, Gigabit Transceivers etc.)
  • Status registers (PN Monitor status, frequency of the interface clock)
The ADC Common register map is implemented in the up_adc_common.v verilog file. To find the instantiation of this module search for up_adc_common inside the IP's directory.

The ADC Channel register map controls and monitors channel specific attributes. Each channel of the core has an individual channel register map. It contains all the registers, which are necessary to control and monitor the processing modules of the data path. For detailed description of the available processing modules see ADC channel section.

The ADC Channel register map is implemented in the up_adc_channel.v verilog file. To find the instantiation of this module search for up_adc_channel inside the IP's directory.

Typical Register Map base addresses

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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IO Delay Control (axi_ad*)

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