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DAC JESD204B/C Transport Peripheral

The DAC JESD204B/C Transport Peripheral (AD-IP-JESD204-TRANSPORT-DAC) implements the transport level handling of a JESD204B/C transmitter device. It is compatible with a wide range of Analog Devices high-speed digital-to-analog converters.

The core handles the JESD204B/C framing of the user-provided payload data. In addition it is capable of generating standard and user-defined test-pattern data for interface verification. It also features a per-channel dual-tone DDS that can be used to dynamically generate test-tones.

The peripheral can be configured at runtime through a AXI4-Lite memory mapped register map.

Features

  • ADI high-speed DAC compatible JESD204B/C data framing
  • Test-pattern generator for interface verification
  • Per-channel dual-tone DDS (optional)
  • Runtime re-configurability through memory-mapped register interface (AXI4-Lite)

Files

Block Diagram

Synthesis Configuration Parameters

Name Description Default
ID Instance identification number. 0
NUM_LANES Number of lanes supported by the peripheral.
Equivalent to JESD204 L parameter.
4
NUM_CHANNELS Number of converters supported by the peripheral.
Equivalent to JESD204 M parameter.
2
SAMPLES_PER_FRAME Number of samples per frame.
Equivalent to JESD204 S parameter.
1
CONVERTER_RESOLUTION Resolution of the converter.
Equivalent to JESD204 N parameter.
16
BITS_PER_SAMPLE Number of bits per sample.
Equivalent to JESD204 NP parameter.
16
OCTETS_PER_BEAT Number of bytes per beat for each link. 4
DDS_TYPE DDS Type. Set 1 for CORDIC or 2 for Polynomial 1
DDS_CORDIC_DW CORDIC DDS Data Width 16
DDS_CORDIC_PHASE_DW CORDIC DDS Phase Width 16
DATAPATH_DISABLE Disable instantiation of DDS core. 0

Signal and Interface Pins

Name Type Description
Configuration interface
s_axi_aclk Clock All S_AXI signals and irq are synchronous to this clock.
s_axi_aresetn Synchronous active low reset Resets the internal state of the peripheral.
S_AXI AXI4-Lite bus slave Memory mapped AXI-lite bus that provides access to modules register map.
Link layer interface
link_clk Clock Device clock for the JESD204B/C interface. Must be line clock / 40 for 204B correct operation. Must be line clock / 66 for correct 204C operation.
LINK_DATA AXI4-Streaming interface Framed transmit data towards link layer.
Application layer interface
enable Output Request signal for each channel.
dac_valid Output Qualifier signal for each channel. Always '1'.
dac_ddata Input Raw application layer data, every channel concatenated.
dac_dunf Input Application layer underflow.

Register Map

Base (common to all cores)

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DAC Common (axi_ad)

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JESD TPL (up_tpl_common)

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DAC Channel (axi_ad*)

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Theory of Operation

Data paths

The data is intended for the DAC can have multiple sources:

  • DMA source Raw data can be accepted from a external block representing the Application layer.
  • DDS source For each DAC channel a dual-tone can be generated by a DDS core.
  • PRBS source For each DAC channel one of the following PN sequence can be selected: PN7, PN15, inverted PN7, inverted PN15

Interfaces and Signals

Application layer interface

The application layer connects to the framer block when the DMA source is selected. The framer module takes sample data and maps it onto the format that the JESD204 link expects for the specified framer configuration.

The data in the application layer interface dac_ddata is expected to have the following layout:

   MSB                                                                  LSB 
  [ MmSn, ..., MmS1, MnS0, ..., M1Sn, ... M1S1, M1S0, M0Sn, ... M0S1, M0S0 ] 

Where MjSi refers to the i-th sample of the j-th converter. With m being the number of converters and n the number of samples per converter per beat.

The core asserts the enable signal for each channel that is enabled by the software. The dac_ddata data bus must contain data for each channel regardless if the channels are enabled or not.

The link layer interface description can be found in the User Data Interface section of the JESD204B/C Link Transmit Peripheral IP.

Clock Monitor

The REG_STATUS (0x054) register CLK_FREQ field allows to determine the clock rate of the device clock (link_clk) relative to the AXI interface clock (s_axi_aclk). This can be used to verify that the device clock is running at the expected rate.

The number is represented as unsigned 16.16 format. Assuming a 100MHz processor clock this corresponds to a resolution of 1.523kHz per LSB. A raw value of 0 indicates that the link clock is currently not active.

External synchronization

By setting the EXT_SYNC parameter of the IP to 1 an external synchronization signal dac_sync_in can be used to trigger data movement from user application layer to the link layer, reset internal DDS cores or PRBS generators. If the EXT_SYNC parameter is set to zero the external signal is ignored and only a software controlled reset happens inside the DDS,PRBS logic.

The external synchronization signal should be synchronous with the dac clock. Synchronization will be done on the rising edge of the signal.

The self clearing SYNC control bit from the REG_CNTRL_1 (0x44) register will arm the trigger logic to wait for the external sync signal. The DAC_SYNC_STATUS status bit from the REG_SYNC_STATUS (0x68) register will show that the synchronization is armed but the synchronization signal has not yet been received.

Once the sync signal is received the data will start to flow and the DAC_SYNC_STATUS status bit will reflect that with a deassertion.

While the synchronization mechanism is armed the dac_valid output signal is gated until the trigger signal is received. The gating happens only during this period, meaning that dac_valid will stay high in all other cases (normal operation).

Restrictions

Reduced number of octets-per-frame (F) settings. The following values are supported by the peripheral: 1, 2, 4

  • Starting from this commit this restriction no longer applies

Software Support

To ensure correct operation it is highly recommended to use the Analog Devices provided JESD204B/C software packages for interfacing the peripheral. Analog Devices is not able to provide support in case issues arise from using custom low-level software for interfacing the peripheral.

Supported Devices

JESD204B Digital-to-Analog Converters

  • AD9135: Dual, 11-Bit, high dynamic, 2.8 GSPS, TxDAC+® Digital-to-Analog Converter
  • AD9136: Dual, 16-Bit, 2.8 GSPS, TxDAC+® Digital-to-Analog Converter
  • AD9144: Quad, 16-Bit, 2.8 GSPS, TxDAC+® Digital-to-Analog Converter
  • AD9152: Dual, 16-Bit, 2.25 GSPS, TxDAC+ Digital-to-Analog Converter
  • AD9154: Quad, 16-Bit, 2.4 GSPS, TxDAC+® Digital-to-Analog Converter
  • AD9161: 11-Bit, 12 GSPS, RF Digital-to-Analog Converter
  • AD9162: 16-Bit, 12 GSPS, RF Digital-to-Analog Converter
  • AD9163: 16-Bit, 12 GSPS, RF DAC and Digital Upconverter
  • AD9164: 16-Bit, 12 GSPS, RF DAC and Direct Digital Synthesizer
  • AD9172: Dual, 16-Bit, 12.6 GSPS RF DAC with Channelizers
  • AD9173: Dual, 16-Bit, 12.6 GSPS RF DAC with Channelizers
  • AD9174: Dual, 16-Bit, 12.6 GSPS RF DAC and Direct Digital Synthesizer
  • AD9175: Dual, 11-Bit/16-Bit, 12.6 GSPS RF DAC with Wideband Channelizers
  • AD9176: Dual, 16-Bit, 12.6 GSPS RF DAC with Wideband Channelizers

JESD204B RF Transceivers

  • AD9371: SDR Integrated, Dual RF Transceiver with Observation Path
  • AD9375: SDR Integrated, Dual RF Transceiver with Observation Path and DPD
  • ADRV9009: SDR Integrated, Dual RF Transceiver with Observation Path
  • ADRV9008-1: SDR Integrated, Dual RF Receiver
  • ADRV9008-2: SDR Integrated, Dual RF Transmitter with Observation Path

JESD204B/C Mixed-Signal Front Ends

  • AD9081: MxFE™ Quad, 16-Bit, 12GSPS RFDAC and Quad, 12-Bit, 4GSPS RFADC
  • AD9082: MxFE™ QUAD, 16-Bit, 12GSPS RFDAC and DUAL, 12-Bit, 6GSPS RFADC

More Information

Technical Support

Analog Devices will provide limited online support for anyone using the core with Analog Devices components (ADC, DAC, Video, Audio, etc) via the EngineerZone.

resources/fpga/peripherals/jesd204/jesd204_tpl_dac.txt · Last modified: 26 Oct 2021 12:23 by Adrian Costina