Embedded Peripherals IP User Guide

ID 683130
Date 12/13/2021
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Document Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Avalon® -ST Multi-Channel Shared Memory FIFO Core 3. Avalon® -ST Single-Clock and Dual-Clock FIFO Cores 4. Avalon® -ST Serial Peripheral Interface Core 5. SPI Core 6. SPI Agent/JTAG to Avalon® Host Bridge Cores 7. Intel eSPI Agent Core 8. eSPI to LPC Bridge Core 9. Ethernet MDIO Core 10. Intel FPGA 16550 Compatible UART Core 11. UART Core 12. JTAG UART Core 13. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mailbox Core 14. Intel FPGA Avalon® Mutex Core 15. Intel FPGA Avalon® I2C (Host) Core 16. Intel FPGA I2C Agent to Avalon® -MM Host Bridge Core 17. Intel FPGA Avalon® Compact Flash Core 18. EPCS/EPCQA Serial Flash Controller Core 19. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller Core 20. Intel FPGA Serial Flash Controller II Core 21. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller Core 22. Intel FPGA Generic QUAD SPI Controller II Core 23. Interval Timer Core 24. Intel FPGA Avalon FIFO Memory Core 25. On-Chip Memory (RAM and ROM) Intel FPGA IP 26. On-Chip Memory II (RAM or ROM) Intel FPGA IP 27. Optrex 16207 LCD Controller Core 28. PIO Core 29. PLL Cores 30. DMA Controller Core 31. Modular Scatter-Gather DMA Core 32. Scatter-Gather DMA Controller Core 33. SDRAM Controller Core 34. Tri-State SDRAM Core 35. Video Sync Generator and Pixel Converter Cores 36. Intel FPGA Interrupt Latency Counter Core 37. Performance Counter Unit Core 38. Vectored Interrupt Controller Core 39. Avalon® -ST Data Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 40. Avalon® -ST Test Pattern Generator and Checker Cores 41. System ID Peripheral Core 42. Avalon® Packets to Transactions Converter Core 43. Avalon® -ST Multiplexer and Demultiplexer Cores 44. Avalon® -ST Bytes to Packets and Packets to Bytes Converter Cores 45. Avalon® -ST Delay Core 46. Avalon® -ST Round Robin Scheduler Core 47. Avalon® -ST Splitter Core 48. Avalon® -MM DDR Memory Half Rate Bridge Core 49. Intel FPGA GMII to RGMII Converter Core 50. Intel FPGA MII to RMII Converter Core 51. Intel FPGA HPS GMII to TSE 1000BASE-X/SGMII PCS Bridge Core 52. Intel FPGA HPS EMAC to Multi-rate PHY GMII Adapter Core 53. Intel FPGA MSI to GIC Generator Core

40.3.1. Functional Description

The test pattern generator core accepts commands to generate data via an Avalon® -MM command interface, and drives the generated data to an Avalon® -ST data interface. You can parameterize most aspects of the Avalon® -ST data interface such as the number of error bits and data signal width, thus allowing you to test components with different interfaces.

Test Pattern Generator Core Block Diagram

The data pattern is determined by the following equation: 
Symbol Value = Symbol Position in Packet XOR Data Error Mask. Non-packetized data is one long stream with no beginning or end.

The test pattern generator core has a throttle register that is set via the Avalon® -MM control interface. The value of the throttle register is used in conjunction with a pseudo-random number generator to throttle the data generation rate.

The command interface is a 32-bit Avalon® -MM write agent that accepts data generation commands. It is connected to a 16-element deep FIFO, thus allowing a host peripheral to drive a number of commands into the test pattern generator core.

The command interface maps to the following registers: cmd_lo and cmd_hi. The command is pushed into the FIFO when the register cmd_lo (address 0) is written to. When the FIFO is full, the command interface asserts the waitrequest signal. You can create errors by writing to the register cmd_hi (address 1). The errors are only cleared when 0 is written to this register or its respective fields. See page the Test Pattern Generator Command Registers section for more information on the register fields.

Control and Status Interface

The control and status interface is a 32-bit Avalon® -MM agent that allows you to enable or disable the data generation as well as set the throttle.

This interface also provides useful generation-time information such as the number of channels and whether or not packets are supported.

Output Interface

The output interface is an Avalon® -ST interface that optionally supports packets. You can configure the output interface to suit your requirements.

Depending on the incoming stream of commands, the output data may contain interleaved packet fragments for different channels. To keep track of the current symbol’s position within each packet, the test pattern generator core maintains an internal state for each channel.