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

2.8. Step 8: Verifying Hardware with Signal Tap

  1. In the Signal Tap window, click File > Open, and open stp_core_partition_reuse.stp.
  2. Ensure that the development kit is powered ON and connected to the machine from which you open the Signal Tap logic analyzer.
  3. In the JTAG Chain Configuration tab, set up the JTAG connection to the board by clicking Setup and then selecting the USB-BlasterII under Hardware.

    The device populates automatically.

    Figure 23. JTAG Scan Configuration
    The Instance Manager window shows Ready to acquire.
    Figure 24. Instance Manager
  4. To set the trigger condition, select count_int[24], right-click the column under Trigger Conditions, and set to Falling Edge.
    Figure 25. Trigger Conditions
  5. Run analysis by clicking Processing > Run Analysis.
    When the analysis finishes, the Waveform tab shows the captured data.
Figure 26. Waveform after Signal Tap Analysis
  • The count_int[27:24] register in u_blinking_led_top|u_counter|count_int[27:24] drives u_blinking_led_top|u_blinking_led|value[3:0].
  • The partition boundary ports created for each bit of value[3:0] are db_value_3, db_value_2, db_value_1, and db_value_0.
  • The value of db_value_0 changes a cycle later after count_int[24] transitions to 0. The count_int[2:0] shows the transitioning of the counter during this process
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