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MAX10 CFM most significant bit read addresses being cut off

rt52
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Hello,

I am trying to use a MAX10M50SAE for Remote System Update using discrete logic.   I have an existing UART module that I am able to download into UFM, so I only needed to modify my existing code in order to access CFM.  

The On-chip Flash IP core settings have CFM sector 3 starting at address 0x10000 and going to 0x6ffff and CFM 4 going from 0x70000 to 0xb7fff and both have Read and Write Access enabled.  I am able to see correct reads, writes and erases from lower addresses in sector 3.  However, I am getting a warning that says "Warning (21074): Design contains 2 input pin(s) that do not drive logic" and then expanding it shows  "Warning (15610): No output dependent on input pin "read_flash[18]"" and read_flash[19].  Meaning the IP core cuts off the 2 most significant bits meaning I cannot read the upper part of CFM sector 3 and all of CFM sector 4.

Is there a setting I am missing in the on-chip flash IP core that affects this?  None of the signals that propagate down to the Flash IP core are less than 20 bits.  Or is this a feature of the Flash IP?

I am able to read from the first couple of addresses from CFM sector 3 but any address that contains bits 18 and 19 I cannot access.  The signal in simulation is marked as Blue and the MSBs are Z, but as long as those 2 bits are not used then everything works as expected.

Thanks

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rt52
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Feel a little silly  but I did not convert the IP core wizard addresses to byte form, so the 0x10000-0x6ffff went to 0x4000-0x1BFFF and 0x70000-0xb7fff goes to 0x1C000-0x2E000 which all fits in 17 bits.  Problem solved

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YuanLi_S_Intel
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I am glad this issue is being solved. This is a good study for the FPGA community over here.


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