Avalon MM master read/write template problem

Altera_Forum · ‎08-21-2015

Device: DE0-Nano Cyclone IV-E EP4CE22F17

I'm still new in this stuff and I tried using the SDRAM component of the device using the Avalon MM master read/write.

During my initial testing, I was able to Write and Read data for a specific address and playing with the LED. The problem is that I wasn't able to increment the address just like I wanted to. Also, I was able to write/read but my signaltap II doesn't show the clock signal of the output of the PLL which is connected to DRAM_CLK.

My code below, Note that READ and WRITE refers to the push buttons:


reg gooff=0;
reg rboff=0;
reg init_r=1;
reg init_w=1;
reg m_read=0;
reg m_write=0;
always @(posedge CLOCK_50)
begin
    if (!READ)
    begin
        m_read <= 1;
        m_write <= 0;
    end
    
    if (!WRITE)
    begin
        m_read <= 0;
        m_write <= 1;
    end
    
    if (m_write == 1 && init_w == 1)
    begin
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_control_fixed_location <= 1;
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_control_write_base <= 0;
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_control_write_length <= 8;
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_control_go <= 1;
        
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_user_write_buffer <= 1;
        
        if (gooff == 0)
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_user_buffer_input_data <= 8'hFFFF;
        
        reg_qsys_sdram_read_user_read_buffer <= 0;
        init_w <= 0;
        init_r <= 1;
    end
    
    if (m_read == 1 && init_r == 1)
    begin
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_control_go <= 0;
      
        reg_qsys_sdram_read_control_fixed_location <= 1;
      reg_qsys_sdram_read_control_read_base <= 0;
      reg_qsys_sdram_read_control_read_length <= 8;
      reg_qsys_sdram_read_control_go <= 1;    
        
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_user_write_buffer <= 0;
        reg_qsys_sdram_write_user_buffer_input_data <= 0;
        
        reg_qsys_sdram_read_user_read_buffer <= 1;
        init_r <= 0;
        init_w <= 1;
        gooff <= 1;
    end

The attached picture shows that I was able to Read and Write successfully but as you can see, my clk_clk(50MHz) and sdram_clock_c0_clk(50MHz lead 3ns) has a value of 0 instead of a clock cycle.

http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11046&stc=1 http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11047&stc=1 http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11048&stc=1 http://www.alteraforum.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=11049&stc=1

Thank you!

Altera_Forum · ‎08-27-2015

Which clock are yoiu sampling with in Signaltap? If it has the same frequency than the clocks you are visualizing, you won't see anything. You can also record the pll's "locked" output to see if it is running as expected.

Altera_Forum · ‎08-28-2015

Daixiwen, Yeah I was using the same frequency but I was able to visualize the clock signal using nyquist rate (2 times the Fs) so I added a 100Mhz Clock signal so that I can view my sdram clock. Thanks for locked ouput, didn't know the purpose of it until now.

I'm still currently working on the address increment but no luck so far. What I just did for the sake of testing is adding an increment to the address which is signal dependent