| d) Xilinx IP cores | |
| The Xilinx EDK toolchain ships with a set of IP cores (devices) for use | |
| in Xilinx Spartan and Virtex FPGAs. The devices cover the whole range | |
| of standard device types (network, serial, etc.) and miscellaneous | |
| devices (gpio, LCD, spi, etc). Also, since these devices are | |
| implemented within the fpga fabric every instance of the device can be | |
| synthesised with different options that change the behaviour. | |
| Each IP-core has a set of parameters which the FPGA designer can use to | |
| control how the core is synthesized. Historically, the EDK tool would | |
| extract the device parameters relevant to device drivers and copy them | |
| into an 'xparameters.h' in the form of #define symbols. This tells the | |
| device drivers how the IP cores are configured, but it requires the kernel | |
| to be recompiled every time the FPGA bitstream is resynthesized. | |
| The new approach is to export the parameters into the device tree and | |
| generate a new device tree each time the FPGA bitstream changes. The | |
| parameters which used to be exported as #defines will now become | |
| properties of the device node. In general, device nodes for IP-cores | |
| will take the following form: | |
| (name): (generic-name)@(base-address) { | |
| compatible = "xlnx,(ip-core-name)-(HW_VER)" | |
| [, (list of compatible devices), ...]; | |
| reg = <(baseaddr) (size)>; | |
| interrupt-parent = <&interrupt-controller-phandle>; | |
| interrupts = < ... >; | |
| xlnx,(parameter1) = "(string-value)"; | |
| xlnx,(parameter2) = <(int-value)>; | |
| }; | |
| (generic-name): an open firmware-style name that describes the | |
| generic class of device. Preferably, this is one word, such | |
| as 'serial' or 'ethernet'. | |
| (ip-core-name): the name of the ip block (given after the BEGIN | |
| directive in system.mhs). Should be in lowercase | |
| and all underscores '_' converted to dashes '-'. | |
| (name): is derived from the "PARAMETER INSTANCE" value. | |
| (parameter#): C_* parameters from system.mhs. The C_ prefix is | |
| dropped from the parameter name, the name is converted | |
| to lowercase and all underscore '_' characters are | |
| converted to dashes '-'. | |
| (baseaddr): the baseaddr parameter value (often named C_BASEADDR). | |
| (HW_VER): from the HW_VER parameter. | |
| (size): the address range size (often C_HIGHADDR - C_BASEADDR + 1). | |
| Typically, the compatible list will include the exact IP core version | |
| followed by an older IP core version which implements the same | |
| interface or any other device with the same interface. | |
| 'reg' and 'interrupts' are all optional properties. | |
| For example, the following block from system.mhs: | |
| BEGIN opb_uartlite | |
| PARAMETER INSTANCE = opb_uartlite_0 | |
| PARAMETER HW_VER = 1.00.b | |
| PARAMETER C_BAUDRATE = 115200 | |
| PARAMETER C_DATA_BITS = 8 | |
| PARAMETER C_ODD_PARITY = 0 | |
| PARAMETER C_USE_PARITY = 0 | |
| PARAMETER C_CLK_FREQ = 50000000 | |
| PARAMETER C_BASEADDR = 0xEC100000 | |
| PARAMETER C_HIGHADDR = 0xEC10FFFF | |
| BUS_INTERFACE SOPB = opb_7 | |
| PORT OPB_Clk = CLK_50MHz | |
| PORT Interrupt = opb_uartlite_0_Interrupt | |
| PORT RX = opb_uartlite_0_RX | |
| PORT TX = opb_uartlite_0_TX | |
| PORT OPB_Rst = sys_bus_reset_0 | |
| END | |
| becomes the following device tree node: | |
| opb_uartlite_0: serial@ec100000 { | |
| device_type = "serial"; | |
| compatible = "xlnx,opb-uartlite-1.00.b"; | |
| reg = <ec100000 10000>; | |
| interrupt-parent = <&opb_intc_0>; | |
| interrupts = <1 0>; // got this from the opb_intc parameters | |
| current-speed = <d#115200>; // standard serial device prop | |
| clock-frequency = <d#50000000>; // standard serial device prop | |
| xlnx,data-bits = <8>; | |
| xlnx,odd-parity = <0>; | |
| xlnx,use-parity = <0>; | |
| }; | |
| That covers the general approach to binding xilinx IP cores into the | |
| device tree. The following are bindings for specific devices: | |
| i) Xilinx ML300 Framebuffer | |
| Simple framebuffer device from the ML300 reference design (also on the | |
| ML403 reference design as well as others). | |
| Optional properties: | |
| - resolution = <xres yres> : pixel resolution of framebuffer. Some | |
| implementations use a different resolution. | |
| Default is <d#640 d#480> | |
| - virt-resolution = <xvirt yvirt> : Size of framebuffer in memory. | |
| Default is <d#1024 d#480>. | |
| - rotate-display (empty) : rotate display 180 degrees. | |
| ii) Xilinx SystemACE | |
| The Xilinx SystemACE device is used to program FPGAs from an FPGA | |
| bitstream stored on a CF card. It can also be used as a generic CF | |
| interface device. | |
| Optional properties: | |
| - 8-bit (empty) : Set this property for SystemACE in 8 bit mode | |
| iii) Xilinx EMAC and Xilinx TEMAC | |
| Xilinx Ethernet devices. In addition to general xilinx properties | |
| listed above, nodes for these devices should include a phy-handle | |
| property, and may include other common network device properties | |
| like local-mac-address. | |
| iv) Xilinx Uartlite | |
| Xilinx uartlite devices are simple fixed speed serial ports. | |
| Required properties: | |
| - current-speed : Baud rate of uartlite | |
| v) Xilinx hwicap | |
| Xilinx hwicap devices provide access to the configuration logic | |
| of the FPGA through the Internal Configuration Access Port | |
| (ICAP). The ICAP enables partial reconfiguration of the FPGA, | |
| readback of the configuration information, and some control over | |
| 'warm boots' of the FPGA fabric. | |
| Required properties: | |
| - xlnx,family : The family of the FPGA, necessary since the | |
| capabilities of the underlying ICAP hardware | |
| differ between different families. May be | |
| 'virtex2p', 'virtex4', or 'virtex5'. | |
| - compatible : should contain "xlnx,xps-hwicap-1.00.a" or | |
| "xlnx,opb-hwicap-1.00.b". | |
| vi) Xilinx Uart 16550 | |
| Xilinx UART 16550 devices are very similar to the NS16550 but with | |
| different register spacing and an offset from the base address. | |
| Required properties: | |
| - clock-frequency : Frequency of the clock input | |
| - reg-offset : A value of 3 is required | |
| - reg-shift : A value of 2 is required | |
| vii) Xilinx USB Host controller | |
| The Xilinx USB host controller is EHCI compatible but with a different | |
| base address for the EHCI registers, and it is always a big-endian | |
| USB Host controller. The hardware can be configured as high speed only, | |
| or high speed/full speed hybrid. | |
| Required properties: | |
| - xlnx,support-usb-fs: A value 0 means the core is built as high speed | |
| only. A value 1 means the core also supports | |
| full speed devices. | |