External Memory Interface Handbook Volume 3: Reference Material: For UniPHY-based Device Families
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683841
Date
3/06/2023
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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
3.5.5. Soft Memory Interface to Hard Memory Interface Migration Guidelines
The following instructions provide information on mapping your soft memory interface to a hard memory interface.
Pin Connections
- The hard and soft memory controllers have compatible pinouts. Assign interface pins to the hard memory interface according to the pin table.
- Ensure that your soft memory interface pins can fit into the hard memory interface. The hard memory interface can support a maximum of a 40-bit interface with user ECC, or a maximum of 80-bits with same-side bonding. The soft memory interface does not support bonding.
- Follow the recommended board layout guidelines for the hard memory interface.
Software Interface Preparation
Observe the following points in preparing your soft memory interface for migration to a hard memory interface:
- You cannot use the hard PHY without also using the hard memory controller.
- The hard memory interface supports only full-rate controller mode.
- Ensure that the MPFE data port width is set according to the soft memory interface half-rate mode Avalon® data width.
- The hard memory interface uses a different Avalon® port signal naming convention than the software memory interface. Ensure that you change the avl_<signal_name> signals in the soft memory interface to .avl_<signal_name>_0 signals in the hard memory interface.
- The hard memory controller MPFE includes an additional three clocks and three reset ports (CMD port, RFIFO port, and WFIFO port) that do not exist with the soft memory controller. You should connect the user logic clock signal to the MPFE clock port, and the user logic reset signal to the MPFE reset port.
- In the soft memory interface, the half-rate afi_clk is a user logic clock. In the hard memory interface, afi_clk is a full-rate clock, because the core fabric might not be able to achieve full-rate speed. When you migrate your soft memory interface to a hard memory interface, you need to supply an additional slower rate clock. The maximum clock rate supported by core logic is one-half of the maximum interface frequency.
Latency
Overall, you should expect to see slightly more latency when using the hard memory controller and multi-port front end, than when using the soft memory controller.
The hard memory controller typically exhibits lower latency than the soft memory controller; however, the multi-port front end does introduce additional latency cycles due to FIFO buffer stages used for synchronization. The MPFE cannot be bypassed, even if only one port is needed.