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MSGDMA design example

MSGDMA design example



This design example provides a simple hardware and software examples that showcases the use of modular SGDMA (mSGDMA) to transfer memory content from one location to another. Overview

Requirements

  • Intel® Quartus® Prime Pro v18.1 or later
  • Intel® Arria® 10 SoC Development Kit (if hardware testing is required)
  • Host PC with JTAG connection to the on-board USB Blaster II


Details on Hardware and Software design

The host PC serves to provide the .elf file to the Nios® II processor via JTAG and resets it. Once the processor starts to run, it firstly populate an initial memory location in the FPGA on-chip RAM with a known pattern. Then, it creates and write descriptors into the mSGDMA to move the content to another location in the FPGA on-chip RAM. Once the mSGDMA transfer is complete, it checks and ensure that the the content at the new memory location is similar to the original values. User can check the status of the software via the nios2-terminal that is linked through JTAG to the host PC. 


 Msgdma_example.png (Click here for image)


Steps to Run Design Example

  1. Download the precompiled hardware and software example from the link in this page and extract them to the host PC.
  2. Connect the JTAG from Host PC to the on-board USB Blaster II of the Intel Arria 10 SoC Development Kit
  3. Power on the board and launch Intel Quartus Prime Programmer tool
  4. Program the msgdma_example.sof file located at the "output_files" directory
  5. Once configuration is successful, launch the Nios II command shell and navigate location of the software .elf file (default location is <project directory>\software\msgdma_software_example\)
  6. In the command shell, type the following command: nios2-download -g msgdma_software_example.elf && nios2-terminal
  7. You should obtain sample output such as the one shown below (xxx refers to the host PC name):
bash-4.1$ nios2-download -g msgdma_software_example.elf && nios2-terminal 

Using cable "USB-BlasterII on xxx [USB-1]", device 1, instance 0x00
Pausing target processor: OK
Initializing CPU cache (if present)
OK
Downloaded 80KB in 0.1s
Verified OK 
Starting processor at address 0x00000238
nios2-terminal: connected to hardware target using JTAG UART on cable
nios2-terminal: "USB-BlasterII on xxx [USB-1]", device 1, instance 0
nios2-terminal: (Use the IDE stop button or Ctrl-C to terminate)

Attempting to open MSGDMA...
Memory copy successful. Session will now close. 


nios2-terminal: exiting due to ^D on remote
bash-4.1$ 


Disclamer

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