External Memory Interface Handbook Volume 3: Reference Material: For UniPHY-based Device Families
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683841
Date
3/06/2023
Public
1. Functional Description—UniPHY
2. Functional Description— Intel® MAX® 10 EMIF IP
3. Functional Description—Hard Memory Interface
4. Functional Description—HPS Memory Controller
5. Functional Description—HPC II Controller
6. Functional Description—QDR II Controller
7. Functional Description—RLDRAM II Controller
8. Functional Description—RLDRAM 3 PHY-Only IP
9. Functional Description—Example Designs
10. Introduction to UniPHY IP
11. Latency for UniPHY IP
12. Timing Diagrams for UniPHY IP
13. External Memory Interface Debug Toolkit
14. Upgrading to UniPHY-based Controllers from ALTMEMPHY-based Controllers
1.1. I/O Pads
1.2. Reset and Clock Generation
1.3. Dedicated Clock Networks
1.4. Address and Command Datapath
1.5. Write Datapath
1.6. Read Datapath
1.7. Sequencer
1.8. Shadow Registers
1.9. UniPHY Interfaces
1.10. UniPHY Signals
1.11. PHY-to-Controller Interfaces
1.12. Using a Custom Controller
1.13. AFI 3.0 Specification
1.14. Register Maps
1.15. Ping Pong PHY
1.16. Efficiency Monitor and Protocol Checker
1.17. UniPHY Calibration Stages
1.18. Document Revision History
1.7.1.1. Nios® II-based Sequencer Function
1.7.1.2. Nios® II-based Sequencer Architecture
1.7.1.3. Nios® II-based Sequencer SCC Manager
1.7.1.4. Nios® II-based Sequencer RW Manager
1.7.1.5. Nios® II-based Sequencer PHY Manager
1.7.1.6. Nios® II-based Sequencer Data Manager
1.7.1.7. Nios® II-based Sequencer Tracking Manager
1.7.1.8. Nios® II-based Sequencer Processor
1.7.1.9. Nios® II-based Sequencer Calibration and Diagnostics
1.17.1. Calibration Overview
1.17.2. Calibration Stages
1.17.3. Memory Initialization
1.17.4. Stage 1: Read Calibration Part One—DQS Enable Calibration and DQ/DQS Centering
1.17.5. Stage 2: Write Calibration Part One
1.17.6. Stage 3: Write Calibration Part Two—DQ/DQS Centering
1.17.7. Stage 4: Read Calibration Part Two—Read Latency Minimization
1.17.8. Calibration Signals
1.17.9. Calibration Time
4.1. Features of the SDRAM Controller Subsystem
4.2. SDRAM Controller Subsystem Block Diagram
4.3. SDRAM Controller Memory Options
4.4. SDRAM Controller Subsystem Interfaces
4.5. Memory Controller Architecture
4.6. Functional Description of the SDRAM Controller Subsystem
4.7. SDRAM Power Management
4.8. DDR PHY
4.9. Clocks
4.10. Resets
4.11. Port Mappings
4.12. Initialization
4.13. SDRAM Controller Subsystem Programming Model
4.14. Debugging HPS SDRAM in the Preloader
4.15. SDRAM Controller Address Map and Register Definitions
4.16. Document Revision History
10.7.1. DDR2, DDR3, and LPDDR2 Resource Utilization in Arria V Devices
10.7.2. DDR2 and DDR3 Resource Utilization in Arria II GZ Devices
10.7.3. DDR2 and DDR3 Resource Utilization in Stratix III Devices
10.7.4. DDR2 and DDR3 Resource Utilization in Stratix IV Devices
10.7.5. DDR2 and DDR3 Resource Utilization in Arria V GZ and Stratix V Devices
10.7.6. QDR II and QDR II+ Resource Utilization in Arria V Devices
10.7.7. QDR II and QDR II+ Resource Utilization in Arria II GX Devices
10.7.8. QDR II and QDR II+ Resource Utilization in Arria II GZ, Arria V GZ, Stratix III, Stratix IV, and Stratix V Devices
10.7.9. RLDRAM II Resource Utilization in Arria® V Devices
10.7.10. RLDRAM II Resource Utilization in Arria® II GZ, Arria® V GZ, Stratix® III, Stratix® IV, and Stratix® V Devices
13.1. User Interface
13.2. Setup and Use
13.3. Operational Considerations
13.4. Troubleshooting
13.5. Debug Report for Arria V and Cyclone V SoC Devices
13.6. On-Chip Debug Port for UniPHY-based EMIF IP
13.7. Example Tcl Script for Running the Legacy EMIF Debug Toolkit
13.8. Document Revision History
2.6.1. Read Calibration
Read calibration consists of two primary parts: capture clock and VFIFO buffer calibration, and read latency tuning.
Capture Clock and VFIFO Calibration
A VFIFO buffer is a FIFO buffer that is calibrated to reflect the read latency of the interface. The calibration process selects the correct read pointer of the FIFO. The VFIFO function delays the controller's afi_rdata_valid signal to align to data captured internally to the PHY. LFIFO buffers are FIFO buffers which ensure that data from different DQS groups arrives at the user side at the same time. Calibration ensures that data arrives at the user side with minimal latency.
Capture clock and VFIFO calibration performs the following steps:
- Executes a guaranteed write routine in the read-write (RW) manager.
- Sweeps VFIFO buffer values, beginning at 0, in the PHY Manager.
- For each adjustment of the VFIFO buffer, sweeps the capture clock phase in the PLL Manager to find the first phase that works. This is accomplished by issuing a read to the RW Manager and performing a bit check. Data is compared for all data bits.
- Increments the capture clock phase in the PLL Manager until capture clock phase values are exhausted or until the system stops working. If there are no more capture clock phase values to try, calibration increments the VFIFO buffer value in the PHY Manager, and phase sweep again until the system stops working.
Completion of this step establishes a working range of values.
- As a final step, calibration centers the capture clock phase within the working range.
Read Latency Tuning
Read latency tuning performs the following steps to achieve the optimal latency value:
- Assigns one LFIFO buffer for each DQ group.
- Aligns read data to the AFI clock.
- Gradually reduces LFIFO latency until reads fail, then increases latency to find the minimum value that yields reliable operation.