Platform Designer - PCIe-DMA BAR size

[Arintel]

Hello Everyone,

I used Quartus 20.1 to generate the Example Design of "Arria 10 PCIe-Avalon-MM-DMA". I then used Platform Designer to add an "Avalon-MM Clock Crossing Bridge" IP core. I connected rmx_bar2 to the bridge's s0 interface and set the address range for the s0 to be 0x1_0000 - 0x1-ffff. Please see the highlighted sections in the attached diagram below.

After programming the design to the FPGA, I used the reference Linux DMA driver to explore the BARs of the PCIe FPGA device. Please see the log below.

Altera DMA 0000:d8:00.0: BAR[0] 0x39fffff08000-0x39fffff081ff flags 0x0014220c, length 512

Altera DMA 0000:d8:00.0: BAR[1] 0x00000000-0x00000000 flags 0x00000000, length 0

Altera DMA 0000:d8:00.0: BAR[2] 0x39fffff00000-0x39fffff07fff flags 0x0014220c, length 32768

Altera DMA 0000:d8:00.0: BAR[3] 0x00000000-0x00000000 flags 0x00000000, length 0

Altera DMA 0000:d8:00.0: BAR[4] 0x00000000-0x00000000 flags 0x00000000, length 0

Altera DMA 0000:d8:00.0: BAR[5] 0x00000000-0x00000000 flags 0x00000000, length 0

Altera DMA 0000:d8:00.0: BAR[0] mapped to 0x00000000edd11856, length 512

Altera DMA 0000:d8:00.0: BAR[2] mapped to 0x000000008c24ec97, length 32768

The issue here is that BAR2 only has an address range of 0x....0000 - 0x....7fff which only covers the 2 interfaces cra and MEM.s1. It does NOT cover the Bridge's s0 address range. What setting did I miss?

Thank you,

Ari

[Arintel]

I had to use the "Assign Base Addresses" function in Platform Designer. The address range now is as expected.

[Rahul_S_Intel1]

Hi ,

Really glad that you have resoved the query , for better understanding , I am copying the screen shot for assign base address.

And for my learning and for fourm users, let us know , after clicking on the assign base address . Do you done auto-assign of all base address.

[Arintel]

RahulS,

I now think that the problem was actually because I did not click on "Sync System Infos" or turn on the Auto sync button.

Anyway, the Auto-assign feature should be used for all base addresses. It compacts the address space for you.

Ari