AN 847: Signal Tap Tutorial with Design Block Reuse: for Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA Development Board

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Date 12/21/2020
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Document Table of Contents x
1. Introduction 2. Core Partition Reuse Debug—Developer 3. Core Partition Reuse Debug—Consumer 4. Root Partition Reuse Debug—Developer 5. Root Partition Reuse Debug—Consumer 6. AN 847: Signal Tap Tutorial with Design Block Reuse for Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA Development Board Archives 7. Document Revision History for AN 847: Signal Tap Tutorial with Design Block Reuse for Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA Development Board
1. Introduction x
1.1. Tutorial Software and Hardware 1.2. Tutorial Files 1.3. Signal Tap with Core Partition Reuse 1.4. Signal Tap with Root Partition Reuse
2. Core Partition Reuse Debug—Developer x
2.1. Step 1: Creating a Core Partition 2.2. Step 2: Creating Partition Boundary Ports 2.3. Step 3: Compiling and Checking Debug Nodes 2.4. Step 4: Exporting the Core Partition and Creating the Black Box File 2.5. Step 5: Copying Files to Consumer Project 2.6. Step 6: Creating a Signal Tap File (Optional) 2.7. Step 7: Programming the Device and Verifying the Hardware 2.8. Step 8: Verifying Hardware with Signal Tap
3. Core Partition Reuse Debug—Consumer x
3.1. Step 1: Adding Files and Running Synthesis 3.2. Step 2: Creating a Signal Tap File 3.3. Step 3: Creating a Partition for blinking_led_top 3.4. Step 4: Compiling the Design and Verifying Debug Nodes 3.5. Step 5: Programming the Device and Verifying the Hardware 3.6. Step 6: Verifying Hardware with Signal Tap
4. Root Partition Reuse Debug—Developer x
4.1. Step 1: Creating a Reserved Core Partition and Defining a Logic Lock Region 4.2. Step 2: Generating and Instantiating SLD JTAG Bridge Agent in the Root Partition 4.3. Step 3: Generating and Instantiating the SLD JTAG Bridge Host 4.4. Step 4: Generating HDL Instance of Signal Tap 4.5. Step 5: Compiling Export Root Partition and Copying Files to Consumer Project 4.6. Step 6: Programming the Device and Verifying the Hardware 4.7. Step 7: Generating a Signal Tap File for the Root Partition 4.8. Step 8: Verifying the Hardware with Signal Tap
5. Root Partition Reuse Debug—Consumer x
5.1. Step 1: Adding Files to Customer Project 5.2. Step 2: Generating and Instantiating SLD JTAG Bridge Host in Reserved Core Partition 5.3. Step 3: Synthesizing, Creating Signal Tap File, and Compiling 5.4. Step 4: Programming the Device and Verifying the Hardware 5.5. Step 5: Verifying the Hardware of Reserved Core Partition with Signal Tap 5.6. Step 6: Verifying Hardware of Root Partition with Signal Tap
1. Introduction
2. Core Partition Reuse Debug—Developer
3. Core Partition Reuse Debug—Consumer
4. Root Partition Reuse Debug—Developer
5. Root Partition Reuse Debug—Consumer
6. AN 847: Signal Tap Tutorial with Design Block Reuse for Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA Development Board Archives
7. Document Revision History for AN 847: Signal Tap Tutorial with Design Block Reuse for Intel® Arria® 10 FPGA Development Board

5.6. Step 6: Verifying Hardware of Root Partition with Signal Tap

  1. Go to the shell from where you opened the Intel® Quartus® Prime software.
  2. In the shell, go to directory a10_pcie_devkit_design_block_reuse_stp/Root_Partition_Reuse/Consumer , and then run the following command: 
    quartus_stp top --create_signaltap_hdl_file --stp_file \
stp_root_partition.stp
  3. In the Signal Tap window, click File > Open, and open the stp_root_partition.stp file, which you created in the previous step.
  4. Ensure that the development kit is powered ON and connected to the machine from which you open the Signal Tap logic analyzer.
  5. Verify that Bridge Index is set to None in the JTAG Chain Configuration window
  6. To set the trigger condition, select the count[0], count[1], count[2], and count[3] signals, right-click the column under Trigger Conditions, and select Falling Edge.
  7. Run analysis by clicking Processing > Run Analysis.
    When the analysis finishes, the Waveform tab shows the captured data.
  8. Verify the transition of the nodes in the root partition.
    Figure 45. Waveforms for Root Partition Nodes in Consumer Project

In this tutorial design, the count[3:0] signals represent the counter in the root partition, and the top_LED signals represent the green LEDs on the board, which also map to the top-level (root) design. After the trigger activates, only one of the top_LED bits is low, at any time.

If the implementation succeeds, the Consumer project behaves identically to the Developer project.

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