AN 803: Implementing Analog-to-Digital Converter Multi-Link Designs with Intel® Arria® 10 JESD204B RX IP Core

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Implementing Analog-to-Digital Converter Multi-Link Designs with Intel® Arria® 10 JESD204B RX IP Core
Implementing Analog-to-Digital Converter Multi-Link Designs with Intel® Arria® 10 JESD204B RX IP Core x
ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Design Overview ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Design Implementation Guidelines Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Migrating the RX Multi-Link Design from Simulation to Synthesis Document Revision History for Implementing Analog-to-Digital Converter Multi-Link Designs with Intel® Arria® 10 JESD204B RX IP Core
Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link x
Design Simulation Guidelines Design Synthesis Guidelines
Design Simulation Guidelines x
Editing Design Example Platform Designer System for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing Design Example Top-Level HDL for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing TX Simulation Model Platform Designer System for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing TX Simulation Model Top-Level HDL for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing Simulation Testbench for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Adding IP Cores Signals in the Subsequent Links to the Simulation Waveform Updating the Simulation Script Simulating the Multi-Link Design Viewing the Simulation Results
Design Synthesis Guidelines x
Editing Design Example Platform Designer System for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing Design Example Top-Level HDL for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing Design Example Top-Level SDC Constraint for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Compiling the Design in Intel® Quartus® Prime Software
Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link x
Design Simulation Guidelines Design Synthesis Guidelines
Design Simulation Guidelines x
Editing Design Example Platform Designer System for Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing Design Example Top-Level HDL for Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing TX Simulation Model Platform Designer System for Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing TX Simulation Model Top-Level HDL for Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing TX Simulation Testbench for Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Adding IP Cores Signals in the Subsequent Links to the Simulation Waveform Updating the Simulation Script Simulating the Multi-Link Design Viewing the Simulation Results
Design Synthesis Guidelines x
Editing Design Example Platform Designer System for Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing Design Example Top-Level HDL for Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Editing Design Example Top-Level SDC Constraint for Unsynchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link Compiling the Design in Intel® Quartus® Prime Software
Migrating the RX Multi-Link Design from Simulation to Synthesis x
Migrating RX Platform Designer System for Simulation to RX Platform Designer System for Synthesis Migrating RX Top-Level HDL for Simulation to RX Top-Level HDL for Synthesis
Implementing Analog-to-Digital Converter Multi-Link Designs with Intel® Arria® 10 JESD204B RX IP Core

Editing TX Simulation Model Top-Level HDL for Synchronized ADC- Intel® Arria® 10 Multi-Link

The generate statement in the Verilog HDL file uses the LINK system parameter as an index variable to generate the requisite number of instances for the multi-link use case.
  1. Open the top-level HDL file (altera_jesd204_ed_TX.sv) in a text editor.
  2. Modify the LINK system parameter to reflect the number of links in your design.
  3. Insert the newly exported ports from the Platform Designer at the Platform Designer instantiation.
  4. Follow these steps to make the connections for the Platform Designer ports:
    1. For TX link reset, distribute the tx_link_rst_n[0] wire from the reset sequencer in Platform Designer to IP cores and transport layers of the second and subsequent links. One way to achieve this is to hard code the index in tx_link_rst_n[i] wire in the transport layer instantiations generation loop with tx_link_rst_n[0].
    2. For TX frame reset, distribute the tx_frame_rst_n[0] wire from the reset sequencer in Platform Designer to the transport layers and pattern checkers of the second and subsequent links. One way to achieve this is to hard code the index in tx_frame_rst_n[i] wire in the transport layer and pattern generator instantiations generation loop with tx_frame_rst_n[0].
    3. Create the following wires to handle PHY resets. Example is shown in Verilog HDL:
      • wire [LINK*L-1:0] tx_analogreset;
      • wire [LINK*L-1:0] tx_digitalreset;
      • wire [LINK*L-1:0] tx_cal_busy;
    4. Distribute the PHY reset and calibration busy signals from Transceiver PHY Reset Controller equally to each IP core.
      Example: For IP core with two transceiver channels, the tx_analogreset[1:0] is distributed to the link 0 IP core and tx_analogreset[3:2] is distributed to the link 1 IP core.
    5. Create the mdev_sync_n wire. Example is shown in Verilog HDL:
      • wire mdev_sync_n;
    6. Connect the dev_sync_n port of each IP core to an AND gate. Distribute the output of the AND gate to mdev_sync_n port of each IP core. You can reuse the sync_n wire to connect the dev_sync_n port to the AND gate.
    7. For combined SYNC_N at the RX subsystem, connect the sync_n_in input port to the sync_n port of each IP core.
    8. For non-combined SYNC_N at the RX subsystem, scale up the dimension of sync_n_in port to match with the number of links.
      Example: 
      output wire [LINK-1:0] sync_n_in,

      Assign sync_n_in[index] to each IP core with index as the link number. For example, sync_n_in[0] for Link 0 IP core, sync_n_in[1] for Link 1 IP core.

    9. Leave the following ports unconnected:
      • csr_tx_testpattern_a
      • csr_tx_testpattern_b
      • csr_tx_testpattern_c
      • csr_tx_testpattern_d
      • jesd204_tx_dlb_data
      • jesd204_tx_dlb_kchar_data
      • jesd204_tx_link_ready
      • jesd204_tx_somf
      Example: 
      .altera_jesd204_subsystem_tx_altera_jesd204_tx1_csr_tx_testpattern_a_export   (/*leave open*/),
    10. For the rest of the ports, increase the index wires from 0 to 1 and subsequent numbers for the subsequent links.
      Example: jesd204_tx_link_data[1] wire should be connected to link 1 IP core and transport layer.
  5. Because of there is only one PHY reset controller, the tx_ready signal of the subsequent link must be wired to the tx_ready signal of link 0 so that the tx_ready_or_tx_csr_lane_powerdown signal is connected correctly. 
    generate
	for (i=1; i<LINK; i=i+1) begin: TX_READY
		assign xcvr_rst_ctrl_tx_ready[i] = xcvr_rst_ctrl_tx_ready[0];
	end
endgenerate
  6. Because of there is only one TX PLL for all the IP cores, copy the transceiver PLL locked status pin for link 1 IP core. 
    generate
	for (i=1; i<LINK; i=i+1) begin: XCVR_PLL_LOCKED
		assign xcvr_pll_locked[i] = xcvr_pll_locked[0];
	end		
endgenerate
  7. Save the top-level HDL file changes.
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