Intel® Arria® 10 Hard Processor System Technical Reference Manual

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Date 8/28/2023
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11.4.2. System Trace Macrocell

The STM allows messages to be injected into the trace stream for delivery to the host debugger receiving the trace data. These messages can be sent through stimulus ports or the hardware EVENT interface. The STM allows these messages to be time stamped.

The STM provides an AMBA* Advanced eXtensible Interface ( AXI* ) slave interface used to create trace events. The interface can be accessed by the MPU subsystem, direct memory access (DMA) controller, and masters implemented as soft logic in the FPGA fabric through the FPGA-to-HPS bridge. The AXI* slave interface supports three address segments, where each address segment is 16 MB and each segment supports up to 65536 channels. Each channel occupies 256 bytes of address space.

The STM also provides 32 hardware EVENT pins. The higher-order 28 pins (31:4) are connected to the FPGA fabric, allowing logic inside FPGA to insert messages into the trace stream. When the STM detects a rising edge on an EVENT pin, a message identifying the EVENT is inserted into the stream. The lower four EVENT pins (3:0) are connected to CTI.